Isabel Huntington


Isabel Huntington is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Western Bulldogs in the AFL Women's.

Early life and junior football

Huntington was an exceptional junior footballer, impressing particularly at the 2016 AFL Youth Girls National Championships. In one match she kicked five goals and recorded 30 disposals, all in a shortened match of 12-minute quarters.
Huntington endured injury plagued teenage years, suffering a broken leg in 2015 and a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in her knee in 2016 that saw her miss the entirety of the 2017 junior and state-league football season. Despite not being able to play with the side due to the injury she trained in a limited capacity that year with Melbourne University who play in the VFL Women's competition.
Huntington completed high school at St Michael's Grammar School in St Kilda in Melbourne's south. She was school captain there in her final year in 2017 and graduated with an ATAR of 98.10 that placed her in the top two per cent of students in the country. She has aspirations to study medicine and work as a doctor.

AFL Women's career

Huntington was drafted by the Western Bulldogs with the first overall selection in the 2017 AFL Women's draft.
She made her debut in a twenty-six point win over at VU Whitten Oval in the opening round of the 2018 season. The following round she played a key role in the first half of the Bulldog's win over, including one stretch where she took consecutive contested forward-50 marks and kicked back-to-back goals in the space of a minute. Soon after though she was involved in a loose-ball chase that saw her sustain a serious knee injury and sit out the remainder of the match. Scans later confirmed she had sustained a season ending ruptured anterior cruciate ligament.
Huntington suffered a sprain to her reconstructed knee in mid-December, the result of which saw her unlikely to return to football until at least round 5, 2019.

Personal life

Huntington is a cousin of Carlton AFL player Will Setterfield.

Statistics

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! 2
! 0
! 11
! 3
! 14
! 8
! 2
! 1.0
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! 5.5
! 1.5
! 7.0
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! 2.0