Bronte Ryan is the Fitzroy-ACU Senior Women’s Coach for 2021.
Bronte comes to the Club with a wealth of experience, most recently as the Senior Assistant Coach and Backline Coach for the North Melbourne Football
Club in the VFLW, a role she's held since 2018.
Prior to North, Bronte built her coaching experience in WA as a forwards coach with Claremont Women’s Football Club from 2016 – 2018 and Assistant
Coach midfield and forwards, Claremont Football Club Under 16’s Development Squad in 2018 with their men’s team.
She was also the Senior Assistant Coach Youth Girls at Claremont Women’s Football Club from 2017 - 2018, Female State Under 18’s Assistant Coach
for Western Australia in 2016 and a Western Australia Talent Academy Coach Under 18’s from 2014 – 2016.
This is a historic coaching appointment for our Club. Bronte becomes the first woman to take on the role as a Senior coach at Fitzroy in our Club's
history, building on the previous coaching positions held by women at our Club in Jo Hogan, former Reserves Women's coach and Mel Storey, former
Assistant U19 coach.
Bronte is keen to get to work with the group, and back to the game she loves after a disrupted year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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