Jenna McCormick
Jenna McCormick | |
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| Born | September 7, 1994 Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia |
| Occupation(s) | Professional athlete (soccer and Australian rules football) |
| Years active | 2012–present |
| Known for | Soccer player for Brisbane Roar and Australian rules footballer for Adelaide Football Club (AFLW) |
Jenna McCormick (born 7 September 1994) is an Australian professional athlete who most recently competed in soccer for the A-League Women's team Brisbane Roar. Additionally, she has played Australian rules football at the elite level with the Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW) league.
Early life
Born and raised in Mount Gambier, South Australia, McCormick relocated to Adelaide in 2011. During her youth, she was involved with Blue Lake SC as a junior soccer player and attended Tenison Woods College in Mount Gambier before moving to Walford Anglican School for Girls in Adelaide. Throughout her schooling, she demonstrated strong abilities in soccer, cricket, and Australian rules football.
Football career
McCormick made her W-League debut with Adelaide United in December 2012, mainly featuring as a midfielder but occasionally playing in defensive roles. In 2013, she earned the player of the tournament accolade during an Australian Schoolgirls tour across South America.
Her career progressed with a move to Canberra United in 2015, followed by a stint at Icelandic club Stjarnan in 2016. She then returned to Canberra United for the 2016–17 season. Midway through 2017, McCormick signed with Norway’s Medkila IL for the second half of the 2017 campaign. Subsequently, she rejoined Adelaide United for the 2017–18 W-League season.
In October 2018, McCormick committed to Brisbane Roar. A year later, she transitioned away from AFLW to sign a one-year contract with Melbourne Victory. November 2019 marked her debut for the Australian national team—the Matildas—starting in a friendly victory against Chile.
July 2020 saw McCormick agree to a two-year deal with Spanish outfit Real Betis, though this contract was mutually ended after just one appearance five months later. Soon after, she joined Melbourne City.
In August 2021, McCormick transferred to Danish club AGF Fodbold, where she featured in 25 league and cup matches. She then returned to her original professional club, Adelaide United, for the 2022–23 A-League Women season.
Most recently, in August 2023, McCormick signed once again with Brisbane Roar but left the club by September 2024.
Australian rules career
In April 2016, McCormick showed interest in joining the newly established AFL Women's competition—the first professional league dedicated to women’s Australian rules football. She was selected by Adelaide during the 2016 AFL Women's draft. Due to W-League commitments with Canberra United’s semi-final on 5 February 2017, she missed round 1 of the AFLW season but made her debut in round 2. Over seven matches—including the grand final—she contributed to Adelaide’s triumph as the inaugural AFLW Premiership winners in 2017.
During the May trade period of 2018, Adelaide re-signed McCormick for another season. Although she again missed the opening round because of W-League obligations, she returned to play from round 2 onward. In May 2018, McCormick extended her contract with Adelaide ahead of the 2019 AFLW season.
AFL Women's statistics
- Data is accurate through the conclusion of the 2019 season
| 2017# | 5 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 29 | 14 | 43 | 6 | 13 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 4.1 | 2.0 | 6.1 | 0.9 | 1.9 | |
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| 2018 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 31 | 6 | 37 | 10 | 15 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 5.2 | 1.0 | 6.2 | 1.7 | 2.5 | |
| 2019# | 5 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 48 | 16 | 64 | 13 | 13 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 6.9 | 2.3 | 9.1 | 1.9 | 1.9 | |
| Career Totals | 20 | 9 | 10 | 108 | 36 | 144 | 29 | 41 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 5.4 | 1.8 | 7.7 | 1.5 | 2.1 | ||
Club Achievements
- Úrvalsdeild Champion: 2016
Individual Awards
- Adelaide United Player of the Year: 2013–14
Club Achievements
- AFL Women's Premiership Titles: 2017, 2019
- Key to the City of Adelaide: presented to the Inaugural Premiership Team on April 28, 2017
See also
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- Living people
- Australian women's soccer players
- 21st-century Australian sportswomen
- Australian expatriate women's soccer players
- Australian expatriate sportspeople in Iceland
- Expatriate women's footballers in Iceland
- Adelaide United FC (women) players
- Brisbane Roar FC (women) players
- Melbourne Victory FC (women) players
- Canberra United FC players
- Real Betis Féminas players
- Melbourne City FC (women) players
- Women's association football defenders
- Women's association football midfielders
- Sportspeople from Mount Gambier, South Australia
- Adelaide Football Club (AFLW) players
- Australian rules footballers from South Australia
- Footballers who switched code
- Australian expatriate sportspeople in Norway
- Expatriate women's footballers in Norway
- Stjarnan women's football players
- Besta deild kvenna players
- Medkila IL (women) players
- Australian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
- Australian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark
- AGF Fodbold (women) players
- Sportswomen from South Australia
- Australian LGBTQ soccer players