Ruby Schleicher


Ruby Schleicher is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the AFL Women's.

Early life and state football

Before playing football, Schleicher played basketball and won the Smarter than Smoking Female Player of the Year award while playing with SBL team Willetton Tigers, She also represented the under-16 and the under-18 Western Australian Metropolitan teams. She was on the way to receiving a basketball scholarship at an American college, before breaking a vertebra playing and half-a-year later breaking one on the other side while surfing, which as a result of the college decided not to risk her.
In 2015, Schleicher was named in the Western Australian squad for the AFL Youth Girls National Championships. In 2016, she played with the WA Youth Girls team who made the Grand Final, before getting the opportunity to play senior football for her local WAWFL club East Fremantle. In her last game of the year she was the starting ruck for East Fremantle in the Grand Final.
In the winter during the off-season between the 2017 and 2018 AFLW seasons, Schleicher decided to stay in Melbourne and play in the VFLW with the St Kilda Sharks. She debuted with the St Kilda Sharks in their round 1 match against Eastern Devils, winning by one point.

AFL Women's career

Schleicher was selected by with pick 144, joining 22 other West Australians drafted in the inaugural AFL Women's draft, and was the youngest player drafted by Collingwood. She made her debut in round 1, 2017, in the inaugural AFLW match at IKON Park against.
Collingwood re-signed Schleicher for the 2018 season during the trade period in May 2017.
Collingwood re-signed Schleicher for the 2019 season during the trade period in June 2018.

Statistics

! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2017
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2018
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2019
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2020
! colspan=3| Career
! 18
! 0
! 0
! 54
! 28
! 82
! 16
! 34
! 21
! 0.0
! 0.0
! 3.0
! 1.6
! 4.6
! 0.9
! 1.9
! 1.2