The Kangaroos’ recruit is the second former Hockeyroo to join the AFLW and she believes more are likely to follow
Georgia Nanscawen was 16 when she found out she was going to become a Hockeyroo. She was riding the tram from Olympic Park into Melbourne Central to meet her mum, Kerryn, when the email landed, and her hands started shaking. She recalls getting off the tram, spotting her mum, racing across the road, and bursting into tears.
“Mum still says that I nearly got hit by multiple cars,” Nanscawen, now 26, says with a wry smile. She debuted the day after she turned 17, and became an Olympian in 2012, aged 20. Her curly red hair made her hard to miss as her powerful 160 centimetre frame bustled around the forward line. She played 205 international matches over the next eight years.
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