Grace Walker and Alice Robinson led one of the biggest steps in Bridgenorth history. In 2024, as co-captains, they took the Senior Women’s team to the club’s first ever women’s premiership, a breakthrough built on steady improvement and the lessons of the 2023 Grand Final loss. They don’t talk about that flag like it was inevitable. They talk about earning it.
Alice’s pathway wasn’t neat. She tried footy at 16, drifted away, played rugby 7s, then came back when that program ended. What changed for her was the environment. Bridgenorth, Bobby Beams, and the group itself reshaped how she saw the game, and she fell in love with it here. Her leadership has since been recognised beyond Parrot Park, named captain of the Tasmanian team.
Grace came with a different kind of certainty. From Flinders Island to Launceston after Grade 10, she knew if Bridgenorth ever had a women’s side, that’s where she’d play, and she did. Grace says the club works because of how it makes people feel. Strong programs and coaches matter, but belonging matters more. She loves her role on the field, but also the off-field side, committee work, functions, canteen, because that’s part of being a Parrot too.
What stands out most is how both captains connect the women’s program to the full Bridgenorth story. The team might be young, but their history doesn’t start in 2019, it’s the whole club’s history, right back to the roots and the fern-pulling. They respect the women before them who made this possible, and they keep lifting the standard year by year.
Grace and Alice led the first flag.
Now they’re setting what comes next.
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