Janet Baird | |
Birth Date: | 12 January 2000 |
Originalteam: | Palmerston (NTFL) NT Thunder (VFLW) |
Debutdate: | 2021 |
Height: | 167 cm |
Years1: | 2021–2022 (S6) |
Games Goals1: | 3 (0) |
Years2: | 2022 (S7)–2023 |
Games Goals2: | 1 (0) |
Games Goalstotal: | 4 (0) |
Statsend: | 2023 |
Janet Baird (born 12 January 2000) is an Australian rules footballer playing for Hawthorn Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW).
Baird is a Tiwi[1] who was raised in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.[2]
She moved to Darwin to further her football, playing her junior football with Palmerston in the NTFL and senior football with the NT Thunder in the VFLW.
Biard was overlooked in the AFLW draft, despite representing the Allies U18 team, however she refused to give up on an AFLW career.[3] Following the draft the Gold Coast Suns offered her a train-on position in 2021[4] She was selected to debut the following year in round 3.[5]
|-| 2021 || || 18| 2 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 3 || 8 || 1 || 3 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 2.5 || 1.5 || 4.0 || 0.5 || 1.5 || 0|-| 2022 (S6) || || 18| 1 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 2 || 6 || 1 || 1 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 4.0 || 2.0 || 6.0 || 1.0 || 1.0 || 0|-| 2022 (S7) || || 2| 1 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 1.0 || 0.0 || 1.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0|-| 2023 || || 2| 0 || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || 0|- class="sortbottom"! colspan=3| Career! 4 !! 0 !! 0 !! 10 !! 5 !! 15 !! 2 !! 4 !! 0.0 !! 0.0 !! 2.5 !! 1.2 !! 3.8 !! 0.5 !! 1.0 !! 0|}