1. Rebecca Goddard was born on 1978 and is a former Australian rules football coach who most recently served as the head coach of the Hawthorn Football Club in the AFL Women's competition.
17 Facts About Bec Goddard
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Bec Goddard played Australian rules football as a junior until the age of 13 before the absence of a girls competition forced her to stop.
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When Canberra got its first women's competition some seven years later, Bec Goddard again returned to playing.
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Bec Goddard played for Belconnen at that level before a broken leg at age 29 forced her to swap her playing career for one in umpiring and coaching.
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Bec Goddard holds the honour to be the first female field umpire in the North East Australian Football League.
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Bec Goddard began coaching at the Gungahlin Jets in the AFL Canberra league.
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Bec Goddard served as assistant coach at the Queanbeyan Football Club as well as becoming the first female coach in the NEAFL.
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In 2016 Bec Goddard was appointed the inaugural coach of the Adelaide Football Club's AFL Women's team.
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Bec Goddard was just one of two woman head coaches in the eight team league.
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Bec Goddard coached the club to the premiership success in its inaugural season the following year.
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Bec Goddard resigned at season's end, electing to return to Canberra to resume full-time work with the Australian Federal Police.
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Bec Goddard attracted the interest of the Gold Coast Suns, who entered the AFLW competition in 2020, when it expanded 14 teams.
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Outside of football, Bec Goddard previously worked for the Australian Federal Police where she attained the rank of Superintendent, at the time of her retirement she was attached to ACT Policing in charge on Police Communications.
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Bec Goddard retired from the Australian Federal Police in 2022 to pursue her football career full time.
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Bec Goddard moved from Canberra to Adelaide in 2015 where she began pursuing a high level coaching career in football in addition to her work with the AFP.
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Bec Goddard holds a degree in Journalism and once worked as a media advisory in the Labor government of the 1990s.
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Bec Goddard holds a degree in Persian language from the Australian National University.