Four triple AFLW premiership-winners – who between them have played a combined 401 games – have been honoured with Adelaide Football Club Life Membership.
Co-Captains Ebony Marinoff and Sarah Allan, three-time Club Champion Anne Hatchard and 2019’s league leading goal kicker Stevie-Lee Thompson were recognised at the Club’s AFLW Club Champion awards night at the Adelaide Convention Centre on Saturday.
The quartet automatically qualified as Life Members having played 10 seasons and more than 50 AFLW games.
As a group, Marinoff, Allan, Hatchard and Thompson share key career milestones, including being part of Adelaide’s inaugural women’s squad, featuring in the club’s first AFLW game in 2017, playing in the three Crows premierships (2017, 2019 and 2022) and each representing the Club in the competition’s milestone 10th season.
But while the four share those milestones, each has left their own unique footprint on women’s football.
Marinoff, 28, has enjoyed a career defined by “firsts”: she was the Club’s first selection at the inaugural AFLW draft in 2016, the competition’s first AFLW Rising Star in 2017, this year became the first Crow to play 100 AFLW games.
Allan, 28, has built her football career on being the rock of the Crows backline. Drafted to Adelaide in the inaugural 2016 AFLW Draft, the three-time All-Australian has now played 95 games and was elevated to Co-Captain in 2024.
Hatchard’s hallmark has been one of transformation: through hard work and dedication the now 27-year-old transformed from a fringe player in the Club’s early seasons to become a three-time Club Champion, four-time All-Australian, the Club’s second player to reach 100 AFLW games, and honoured with the 2022 (Season 6) Grand Final Best on Ground medal.
Thompson, 33, was drafted in 2016 as one of the original group of Darwin-based players signed by the Crows. A foundation squad member, she has played 97 games for Adelaide, including the three premierships, earning All-Australian honours in 2019.
Crows CEO Tim Silvers said the players’ skills, passion and dedication had been essential not only to the success of the Club’s AFLW side, but to the growth of women’s football across South Australia.
“With the elevation of Ebony, Sarah, Anne and Stevie-Lee, the Club now has seven AFLW players who have been inducted as Life Members,” he said.
“Their influence on both our Club, and on the football landscape in general, cannot be understated.”
Sarah Allan
Adelaide selected Allan with its 16th pick at the 2016 AFLW Draft and she made her debut in Round One, 2017.
Foundation squad member 2017
3 × AFL Women’s premiership player: 2017, 2019, 2022 S6
3 × AFLW All-Australian: 2020, 2021, 2022 S6
Adelaide Co-Captain: 2024-
Anne Hatchard
The former basketballer was selected by Adelaide with its 11th pick at the 2016 AFLW Draft. She then made her AFLW debut in the opening round of the 2017 season.
Foundation squad member 2017
3 × AFL Women’s premiership player: 2017, 2019, 2022 S6
4 × AFLW All-Australian: 2019, 2020, 2022 S6, 2022 S7
3 × Adelaide Club Champion: 2020, 2022 S6, 2022 S7
AFLW Grand Final Best on Ground medal: 2022 S6
Ebony Marinoff
Adelaide’s first selection at the inaugural AFLW draft recently became the first Crow to play 100 AFLW games, not missing a match since the first game in 2017.
Foundation squad member 2017
3 × AFL Women’s premiership player: 2017, 2019, 2022 S6
7 × AFLW All-Australian: 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022 S6, 2022 S7, 2023, 2024
3 × Adelaide Club Champion: 2021, 2023, 2024
Adelaide Co-Captain: 2024-
AFLW Best and Fairest: 2024
AFLPA AFLW Most Valuable Player: 2024
AFLCA AFLW Champion Player of the Year: 2024
Adelaide AFLW games record holder
Showdown Medal: 2024
AFLW Rising Star award: 2017
Stevie-Lee Thompson
Drafted as one of the original group of Darwin-based players signed by the Crows.
Foundation squad member 2017
3 × AFL Women’s premiership player: 2017, 2019, 2022 S6
1 × AFLW All Australian: 2019
AFLW Leading Goalkicker: 2019
