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Bec Goddard headlines Hawthorn’s all-female coaching panel for VFLW team the Hawks, setting new benchmark for women’s AFL
The Hawthorn Football Club has set an AFLW benchmark today without even having a women’s team in the elite competition.
Key points:
- Bec Goddard coached the Adelaide Crows to the first-ever AFLW premiership in 2017
- Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett says the all-female coaching panel is not about “gender-based recognition” but professionalism
- Hawthorn’s VFLW team is called the Hawks, but the club does not have an AFLW team
The club has announced an all-female coaching panel for its VFLW team, the Hawks, spearheaded by Bec Goddard, who coached the Adelaide Crows to the first-ever AFLW premiership in 2017.
Hawthorn is paying more than lip service to the need to develop coaches who are female and who can coach teams across the gender divide in the…
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