Cecilia McIntosh was born on 21 June 1979 and is an Australian athlete who won a silver medal in the javelin throw at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, represented Australia in bobsled at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, was a runner-up at the 1997 Australian Weightlifting Championships and is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the AFL Women's competition.
17 Facts About Cecilia McIntosh
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Cecilia McIntosh attended Eumemmerring Secondary College in Fountain Gate, Melbourne.
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Two years later in 1998 she qualified for her 2nd World Junior team to compete in Annecy, France where she went into the Championships ranked 4th with the hopes of finishing on the podium, but it wasn't to be as Cecilia McIntosh snapped and dislocated her elbow on the first throw of the qualifying round.
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Cecilia McIntosh competed at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in javelin where she won a silver medal, with a mark of 57.42.
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Five weeks after the games Cecilia McIntosh competed at the World Cup in Madrid, Spain finishing 9th.
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Scans showed Cecilia McIntosh needed surgery but due to the fact that she was the only B qualifier for Australia for the upcoming 2004 Athens Olympic Games the surgeon Greg Hoy tried to do as little as possible to not hamper her preparations for the Olympics.
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Cecilia McIntosh then left the sport because of the problems with her shoulder.
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Cecilia McIntosh played for the Melbourne University Mugars in the Victorian Women's Football League.
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On 20 April 2015 Cecilia McIntosh was drafted to Melbourne FC.
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Four days on she received a call from Michelle Cowan welcoming her back to the Melbourne FC team and in her first game back for the Melbourne Demons 3 weeks later on the same ground she tore her ACL almost exactly 12 months to the day Cecilia McIntosh had a field day off the half back line.
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Cecilia McIntosh later played for the Melbourne side in the Women's All-Star match at Whitten Oval in September 2016.
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Cecilia McIntosh was drafted by Collingwood with the 123rd pick in the 2016 AFL Women's draft.
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Cecilia McIntosh made her AFLW debut in round 1,2017, in the club and the league's inaugural match at IKON Park against Carlton.
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In May 2018, Cecilia McIntosh was re-signed by Collingwood for the 2019 season.
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Cecilia McIntosh continued to play state-league football, moving to play with Essendon in the VFL Women's league in 2019, and came third in the league best and fairest Lambert-Pearce Medal that year.
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Cecilia McIntosh has competed in weightlifting, where she finished second at the Victorian championships and second at the national championships.
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Cecilia McIntosh first tried bobsledding following her retirement from athletics at the suggest of athletics club teammate and 2006 Winter Olympics bobsledder Shane McKenzie.