Dogs pick Dani for American AFLW debut
- Friday, February 07 2020 @ 05:15 pm ACDT
- Contributed by: Troy Thompson
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When the Western Bulldogs named Danielle Marshall for Sunday's Round 1 AFLW clash against St Kilda this afternoon they became the first AFL club to select an American woman for a senior match.
Marshall also is the first American to make it to an Australian football national competition team after learning and playing the game competitively in the USA. While Mason Cox and Jason Holmes were recruited from the USA before making their AFL debuts, they had to learn the game in Australia.
Marshall is a bona fide product of the United States Australian Football League (USAFL). The Arizona Hawks to be more precise. Marshall played with the Hawks in 2018 and 2019 seasons. In 2019 she came to Australia to see how far she could make it in the game here. She returned to the US in October to play in the USAFL National Championships in Florida.