1. Jacinda Barclay was an Australian sportswoman who played baseball, American football and Australian rules football at high levels.
16 Facts About Jacinda Barclay
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Jacinda Barclay represented the Australian national team in five Women's Baseball World Cups and played professional football for the Chicago Bliss in the Legends Football League and Greater Western Sydney in the AFL Women's.
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Jacinda Barclay was born on 18 February 1991 to New Zealander parents and grew up in Chidlow, Western Australia, and attended La Salle College.
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Jacinda Barclay began playing Australian rules football at age 12, before deciding to focus on baseball as a teenager.
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Jacinda Barclay represented the Australian national team in the 2008 World Cup in Japan at the age of 17.
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Jacinda Barclay won a silver medal at the 2010 World Cup in Venezuela, and played in three more world cups.
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Jacinda Barclay began playing American football in 2012, while living in Chicago.
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Jacinda Barclay played as a quarterback, leading her team to a title and winning an award as the best offensive player in the league.
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In 2016, Jacinda Barclay was scouted by the Chicago Bliss in the main LFL competition in the United States.
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Jacinda Barclay began playing Australian football at the age of twelve, although she gave it up for a period in order to concentrate on baseball.
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Jacinda Barclay was drafted to Greater Western Sydney with the 65th pick overall in the 2016 AFL Women's draft, and made her senior debut for the club in round one of the 2017 season, against Adelaide at Thebarton Oval.
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In 2016, Jacinda Barclay was working in the professional diving industry as an assistant life support technician and had aspirations to become a sports psychologist.
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Jacinda Barclay was found dead at her Perth home on 12 October 2020.
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Jacinda Barclay's death was implied to have been a suicide.
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Jacinda Barclay was the first contact sportswoman in Australia to donate her brain to the Australian Sports Brain Bank.
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Jacinda Barclay, who had been told she would easily have earned $200,000 a year as a male athlete, was paid $23,059 in 2020 as a tier two player for the Greater Western Sydney Giants women's team.