Ruth Wallace
Pick No.38
Age: 24
DOB: 1/2/1993
Height: 170cm
Position: Midfielder/Half-Forward
Local Club: Adelaide University/Norwood (SA)
Key Achievements
- Premiership player for Norwood in the inaugural 2017 SANFL Women’s League
- Adelaide Footy Women’s League Division 1 Leading Goalkicker in 2017 with 33 Goals for Adelaide University from 10 games
Bio
A crafty goalkicker who is difficult to defend. Wallace played Australian Rules growing up but switched to soccer in the absence of female football pathways. She joined Adelaide United in 2008 and represented the Australian Junior Matildas in 2009. Excelled in this year’s Adelaide Footy Women’s League with premiers Norwood and finished as the competition’s leading goalkicker. Wallace ran the New York Marathon in 2014 and remains an elite endurance athlete, recording the ninth-best result in the Yo-Yo test at the AFL Women’s Draft Combine.