Sydney all-girls school bans Aussie rules

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An all-girls schoolhouse successful Sydney has banned its students from playing Australian rules football for fearfulness of semipermanent encephalon injuries.

Queenwood, located successful Mosman connected the city's bluish beaches, confirmed the determination successful a connection to The Australian.

The schoolhouse opted to not enactment successful past year's autarkic girls' inter-school contention and has decided to not fto its students play the interaction sport.

Wide World of Sports has contacted some Queenwood and the AFL for comment.

"At Queenwood, we loved everything astir AFL but for the hazard of trauma to the brain," Queenwood rule Elizabeth Stone told the newspaper.

"We did an extended reappraisal of the research, drafting connected adept advice, and what we recovered acrophobic us.

"While individuals alteration successful however galore blows to the caput they tin prolong earlier crossing the threshold to detectable encephalon injury, we weren't comfy with the thought that our students would beryllium pushing person to that bounds connected our watch. They person a beingness up of them.

"We phased retired (Australian football) with reluctance but existent certainty connected the ground of the grounds that it was successful their champion interests."

Queenwood has a past of producing palmy Australian rules footballers.

Former pupil Nicola Barr was the No.1 prime astatine the archetypal ever AFLW draught successful 2016 and has played for the GWS Giants since.

But the crippled successful wide - arsenic with astir interaction sports - is grappling with the interaction of ever-evolving accusation and probe into caput knocks, concussion, and semipermanent encephalon damage.

Former AFL players Shane Tuck and Danny Frawley were recovered to person chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) aft taking their ain lives.

Former AFL subordinate Jacinda Barclay took her ain beingness past year, and was recovered to person neurological damage aft her encephalon was donated to the Australian Sports Brain Bank.

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