Lauren Arnell is in the third trimester of her pregnancy – a baby girl – all while coaching Port Adelaide’s second season in the AFLW.
When Juliet Haslam, Port Adelaide’s head of women’s football, called Lauren Arnell in early 2022 to ask if she’d want to apply for, there was no way for Haslam to know that the retired Brisbane Lions premiership player was going through the hardest time of her life.
“I’m not sure if we would have probably made the jump unless that really shit time in our lives had happened,” said Arnell, who had settled in Brisbane with Lexi after“That was by far the hardest thing I’ve ever been through, my partner and myself. That’s, yeah, I would never want anyone in the world to have to go through that – and unfortunately, so many women do and men.”
Arnell, Carlton’s inaugural women’s captain, leads the team off the field after beating Collingwood in the first ever AFLW match.It’s a big adjustment, but Arnell is accustomed to breaking new ground. She was the inaugural Carlton captain and led the side out for the very first AFLW game in 2017 against Collingwood. She then became the first player to be appointed as a head coach in the system, and is now the first to coach while pregnant.
“I think the physicality of what I’m going through allows me to be more human, to be honest. And sometimes in the role you set as a senior coach, you want to be as human as you can, and then you try to drive standard at the same time.
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