29 Facts About Katie Brennan

Katie Brennan was born on 2 October 1992 and is an Australian rules footballer with and captain of the Richmond Football Club in the AFL Women's.

Katie Brennan previously played for and captained the Western Bulldogs from 2017 to 2019.

Katie Brennan was born in Brisbane, Queensland and raised on a large family property in Loganholme, a southeastern suburb 29 kilometres the city.

Katie Brennan first played Australian rules football at the age of six in Auskick clinics at the Logan City Cobras Football Club.

Katie Brennan continued to play with the Logan Cobras boys through to girls eligibility age cut-off at 15, including in one season where she won a club best and fairest award at under 14s level.

Katie Brennan first played senior football in the senior Queensland Women's League the following year.

In 2007 and at the age of 14, Katie Brennan was selected to represent the Queensland under-18 side for the first time.

Katie Brennan would go on to captain the Queensland under-18 team three times between 2008 and 2010 and gain All-Australian honours in 2009 and 2011.

Katie Brennan switched to the Yeronga Football Club in 2011 and again tasted premiership success in the Queensland Women's League.

Katie Brennan moved to Melbourne ahead of the 2013 season at the age of 20 and began playing for the Darebin Falcons in the Victorian Women's Football League.

Katie Brennan was drafted twenty-second overall by the Western Bulldogs in the 2013 women's draft and played for the club's representative side in exhibition matches through to 2016.

Katie Brennan was the winner of the Susan Alberti Award for the Western Bulldogs's best female player at the end of the 2015 exhibition season.

Katie Brennan received the VFL Women's Best and Fairest award and the VFL Women's leading goal-kicker award for her performances in the 2017 state league season including kicking 20 goals across the last three matches of the season.

In July 2016, Katie Brennan signed with the Western Bulldogs as one of their two marquee players ahead of the AFL Women's inaugural season.

Katie Brennan sustained an acute ankle injury in a pre-season practice match just one week before the start of the season, though eventually debuted in the club's inaugural match with the help of pain-killing injections.

Katie Brennan attempted to make a return to football for a round 6 match against Brisbane in her home state, but a late fitness test caused Brennan to severely tear her right quad muscle and ultimately miss the final two matches of the season.

Katie Brennan finished the season having kicked three goals in her two matches.

Katie Brennan captained the Bulldogs to a win in that match, securing a home-state grand final the week following.

Katie Brennan was involved in a dangerous sling tackle in that match pinning the arms of Melbourne's Harriet Cordner in a tackle that saw Cordner's head hit the ground in the follow-through.

On 23 March 2018, Katie Brennan made a gender discrimination complaint against the AFL to the Australian Human Rights Commission over the two-match suspension which ultimately prevented her from playing in the Grand Final.

On 18 April 2018, Katie Brennan dropped her complaint against the AFL, after the AFL agreed to change its match review rules to remove anomalous differences between the men's and women's competitions, thereby ensuring greater consistency between the men's and women's competitions, with the AFL additionally reducing Katie Brennan's suspension by one week.

On 8 April 2019, the Bulldogs announced that Katie Brennan had departed the club, with Katie Brennan later saying that her decision had been "based purely around [her] need for a fresh start".

Katie Brennan signed with Richmond on the second day of the 2019 trade and sign period, becoming the first player to sign with its AFL Women's team and the first AFLW player to sign a two-year contract with a club.

Katie Brennan achieved selection in Champion Data's 2021 AFLW All-Star stats team, after leading the league for average score involvements in the 2021 AFL Women's season, totalling 4.8 a game.

Katie Brennan grew up playing football with her brother and they were both Brisbane Lions supporters.

Katie Brennan attended high school at Our Lady's College in the suburb of Annerley.

Katie Brennan spent periods of her youth living in England and Dubai.

Between the ages of 15 and 17, Katie Brennan suffered from bulimia.

Outside of football, Katie Brennan owns and operates a strength and conditioning business called KB Performance.