Daria Bannister


Daria Bannister is an Australian rules footballer with the North Melbourne Football Club in the AFL Women's. Bannister was drafted by the Western Bulldogs with their fourth selection and nineteenth overall in the 2017 AFL Women's draft. She made her debut in the twenty-six point win against at VU Whitten Oval in the opening round of the 2018 season. She suffered a knee injury in the fourth quarter of that match, later revealed to be a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament. The resulting surgery would see and end to her AFLW season and carry an estimated 12 months of recovery. In May 2018, Bannister signed with expansion club, North Melbourne, to play with the club in the 2019 AFLW season.

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