Moana Hope
Hope in 2019
Personal information
Nickname(s) Mo[1][2]
Date of birth (1988-02-14) 14 February 1988 (age 35)
Place of birth Victoria
Original team(s) St Kilda Sharks (VWFL)
Draft Marquee player signing 2016: Collingwood
Debut Round 1, 2017, Collingwood vs. Carlton, at IKON Park
Height 172 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Full-forward
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2017–2018 Collingwood 13 (15)
2019 North Melbourne 07 0(8)
Total 20 (23)
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
2017 Victoria 1 (1)
International team honours
2006 Australia
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of the 2019 season.
2 State and international statistics correct as of 2017.
Career highlights
Source: AustralianFootball.com

Moana Hope (born 14 February 1988) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played in the AFL Women's competition from 2017 to 2019, including 13 matches over two seasons at Collingwood and a further seven matches over one season at North Melbourne. Each followed an extended career at state-league level before the creation of a national league.

Early life

Hope hails from the suburb of Broadmeadows, in Melbourne's north.[3] She is of New Zealand, German and Australian heritage, and has 14 siblings in total.[4][5]

Hope began playing Australian football competitively at the age of seven, playing with boys teams at Glenroy through under-12s.[4] Without a viable youth girls league to join, Hope immediately progressed to playing senior women's football with Hadfield at the age of thirteen.[6] She played representative football for Victoria at age 16, and captained the state side at under-19 level.[4] She was also a member of the Australia women's international rules football team that played against Ireland in the 2006 Ladies' International Rules Series.[4][7][8]

Hope was also an accomplished junior cricketer, representing Victoria through to under-19 level. She chose to give up the sport in favour of Australian football.[4]

State league football

Hope has played premier division Australian football in the VWFL for the Darebin Falcons and St Kilda Sharks. She is a multiple competition leading goalkicker.[4] She has also played for Melbourne University.[9]

Hope ceased playing Australian football in 2011 after an accomplished period in the VWFL; in 2013, she witnessed the first AFL women's exhibition match and recommitted to football as a result, and was drafted with the eleventh selection the following year to the Western Bulldogs. She would go on to play for the club in representative exhibition matches for the next three years. In 2016, she kicked six goals in the victorious Western Bulldogs side against Melbourne in the women's all-stars game in September.[10]

In the 2016 season she kicked over 100 goals, the first ever player to do so in the VFL Women's.[11]

AFL Women's career

Hope in 2018, during the AFL Women's match between Collingwood and Greater Western Sydney

In July 2016, Hope was signed by Collingwood as one of two marquee players ahead of the AFL Women's inaugural season.[12]

She made her debut in round 1 in the club and the league's inaugural match at Ikon Park against Carlton.[13] Hope finished the season having played in all seven of Collingwood's matches and kicking seven goals, leading the Magpies' goalkicking and equal sixth-highest league-wide.[14] Hope was later re-signed for the 2018 season in the May 2017 trade period.[15] In late August she was added as an injury replacement player in the Victorian side for the upcoming State of Origin exhibition match.[16] She kicked one goal in her state's 97-point win over The Allies.[17]

Hope returned to Collingwood's side for round 1 2018 in an eight-point loss to Carlton at Ikon Park.[18] After a disappointing personal performance she was dropped from the club's round 2 side to face Fremantle at Optus Stadium the following week.[19]

On 18 May 2018, it was announced that Hope had been signed by North Melbourne, who entered the AFL Women's competition in 2019.[20] In April 2019, North Melbourne announced that they had delisted Hope following the conclusion of the 2019 season.[21]

Statistics

Legend
  G  
 Goals
  K  
 Kicks
  D  
 Disposals 
  T  
 Tackles
  B  
 Behinds 
  H  
 Handballs 
  M  
 Marks
Season Team No. Games Totals Averages (per game)
G B K H D M T G B K H D M T
2017 Collingwood 23 7 7 8 29 7 36 14 6 1.0 1.1 4.1 1.0 5.1 2.0 0.9
2018 Collingwood 23 6 8 5 41 11 52 17 5 1.3 0.8 6.8 1.8 8.7 2.8 0.8
2019 North Melbourne 23 7 8 4 33 7 40 16 8 1.1 0.6 4.7 1.0 5.7 2.3 1.1
Career[22] 20 23 17 103 25 128 47 19 1.2 0.9 5.2 1.3 6.4 2.4 1.0

Personal life

Hope published her memoir, My Way, in 2017.[23]

On 17 August 2019, Hope married model Isabella Carlstrom in Melbourne.[24] Carlstrom gave birth to their first child on November 17, 2020,[25][26] Hope gave birth to a boy on June 26, 2022.[27]

Australian Survivor

In 2018, Hope appeared as a contestant on Australian Survivor: Champions vs. Contenders, competing in the fifth season of the competitive reality television series Australian Survivor as part of the Champions tribe.[28] Hope formed many strong relationships, notably with fellow contestants Mat Rogers and Sharn Coombes and also found a Hidden Immunity Idol. In the tribe's first tribal council, Hope led the blindside of American Survivor contestant Russell Hantz. On day 16, Hope asked her tribemates to vote her out at tribal council because of an illness. The tribe followed through on Hope's request and she finished the game in 19th place.[29]

Hope returned for Australian Survivor: All Stars and got far into the game, forming an alliance with the extremely popular eventual winner David Genat. However, she repeatedly refused to vote out Genat, who was the sole vote to remove her from the game at final 3, leaving Hope in third place.[30]

Filmography

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2018 Australian Survivor: Champions vs. Contenders Contestant Eliminated; 19th place
2020 Australian Survivor: All Stars Contestant Eliminated; 3rd place

References

  1. ^ "Mo Hope stars as Collingwood bring Giants down to size in AFLW". The Guardian. 12 March 2017.
  2. ^ Sewell, Eliza (16 May 2017). "Mo Hope could face a pay cut at Collingwood after failing to live up to expectations". Herald Sun.
  3. ^ "Moana Hope is first cult figure in AFL women's league". news.com.au. News Corp. 28 July 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Samantha, Lane (15 August 2016). "For the love of the game – Moana Hope finds her feet". The Age. Fairfax. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  5. ^ Brooks, Emily (5 September 2016). "Moana Hope Reveals What It Costs To Be A Female AFL Player". Huffington Post. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  6. ^ Amy, Paul (27 April 2016). "St Kilda Shark Moana Hope's decorated career takes in another accolade this weekend". Caulfield Glen Eira Leader. News Corp. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  7. ^ "Reliving the one and only Women's International Rules series 10 years on". girlsplayfooty.com. 15 November 2016. Archived from the original on 16 March 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  8. ^ "Brave Aussie ladies like ewes to the slaughter in Ireland". www.worldfootynews.com. 14 November 2006. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  9. ^ "Former Kangaroo and Pie to continue career in VFL Women's". womens.afl. 17 May 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  10. ^ Wood, Lauren (5 September 2016). "Moana Hope kicks six goals to lead Western Bulldogs to win over Melbourne in women's exhibition game". Herald Sun. News Corp. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  11. ^ Matthews, Bruce (21 August 2016). "Hope on a high after 100 goals in a season". AFL.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  12. ^ "Women's AFL: Who are the marquee players?". ABC. 27 July 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  13. ^ Guthrie, Ben (2 February 2017). "Blue ribbon day for AFLW as Carlton downs Collingwood". AFL Media. Bigpond. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  14. ^ "AFLW Leading Goal Kicker: Mo Hope". Collingwood FC. Telstra Media. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  15. ^ "AFLW: All the clubs' full lists after trade period – AFL.com.au". afl.com.au. Telstra Media. 26 May 2017. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
  16. ^ Meagan Lechucki and Sam Gastin (25 August 2017). "Two more Pies join State of Origin squad". Collingwood FC. Telstra Media. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  17. ^ Cavanagh, Chris (2 September 2017). "Big V hands Allies State of Origin lesson". Herald Sun. News Corp. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  18. ^ Salemme, kate (1 February 2018). "AFLW Round 1 teams named: Stars set for second season". Herald Sun. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  19. ^ Buxton, Aaron (8 February 2018). "AFLW teams: No Hope for Pies, star Blue axed". AFL Media. Telstra Media. Archived from the original on 9 February 2018. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  20. ^ Johnson, Adrian (18 May 2018). "Mo Hope walks out on Collingwood". AFL.com.au. Telstra Media.
  21. ^ "North Melbourne delist Hope". The Age. 8 April 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  22. ^ "Moana Hope – Player Stats By Season". Australian Football. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  23. ^ Hope, Moana (2017). My way. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press. ISBN 9780522871524. OCLC 971251427.
  24. ^ Hirst, Jordan (22 August 2019). "AFLW star Moana Hope marries partner Isabella Carlstrom". QNews. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
  25. ^ Hirst, Jordan (17 November 2020). "Moana Hope and wife Isabella Carlstrom welcome their first child". QNews. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  26. ^ Epstein, Jackie (18 November 2020). "Moana Hope and wife Isabella Carlstrom have welcomed their first child, a baby girl". Herald Sun. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  27. ^ "Ex-AFLW star Moana Hope and her wife welcome their second child. In May, 2023 they split". QNews. 27 June 2022.
  28. ^ Moran, Jonathan (2 August 2018). "Network Ten celebrates Survivor Australia's solid ratings but will they last?". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  29. ^ Burke, Tina (10 August 2018). "EXCLUSIVE: Australian Survivor's Moana Hope on her elimination, illness and love for the game". Now To Love. Bauer Media. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
  30. ^ Bond, Nick (30 March 2020). "news.com.au". News.com.au.

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