Lauren Butler

Lauren Butler is an Australian rules footballer who plays for Collingwood in the AFL Women's competition, the top level of women's Australian rules football. She was born on 20 November 2000 and comes from Maryborough in regional Victoria, where she began playing football at the age of eight, first representing the Carisbrook Lady Redbacks as a junior. At Ballarat Grammar School she captained her school to victory in the interschool Herald Sun Shield in 2017. In 2018 she captained the Greater Western Victoria Rebels in the TAC Cup Girls competition and played two games for the Western Bulldogs in the VFL Women's before breaking a finger. She represented Vic Country at the 2018 AFL Women's Under 18 Championships and tested at the draft combine, placing fourth in the yo-yo test and fifth in the two-kilometre time trial. Collingwood drafted her with pick 18 in the 2018 AFLW draft, and she made her debut in the opening round of the 2019 season against Geelong. She re-signed with the club for two years in June 2021.