| Lauren Tesoriero | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Tesoriero with Richmond in February 2020 | |||
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Lauren Tesoriero | ||
| Date of birth | (1986-09-10)10 September 1986 (age 38) | ||
| Place of birth | Melbourne,Victoria, Australia | ||
| Original team(s) | Eastern Devils (VFLW) | ||
| Draft | No. 107,2016 national draft No. 96,2019 national draft | ||
| Debut | Round 1, 2017,Collingwood vs.Carlton, atIkon Park | ||
| Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 2017–2018 | Collingwood | 11 (1) | |
| 2020 | Richmond | 4 (0) | |
| Total | 15 (1) | ||
| International team honours | |||
| Years | Team | Games (Goals) | |
| 2006 | Australia | ||
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2020 season. | |||
| Career highlights | |||
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| Source:AustralianFootball.com | |||
Lauren Tesoriero (born 10 September 1986) is a retiredAustralian rules footballer who played for theRichmond Football Club in theAFL Women's competition (AFLW). She previously played 11 matches over a two-year tenure withCollingwood.
Tesoriero grew up in theMelbourne suburb ofMount Evelyn, learning to play football in the backyard with her brothers. She helped out at the Mount Evelyn Football Club with activities like boundary umpiring and running water, but didn't play since her parents didn't allow her. A family friend convinced her parents to let her play the last two games of the season with the under-10 boys and they were the only games they won that season. Due to lack of girl's youth teams in football, Tesoriero started playing basketball and netball. She represented the Mount Evelyn Netball Club and later played for the North East Blaze in theVictorian Netball League.[1]
In 2005, at the age of 18, Tesoriero started playing senior football at Yarra Valley Cougars. A year later she was selected to represent the Victorian state football team. She was also a member of theAustralia women's international rules football team that played againstIreland in the2006 Ladies' International Rules Series.[2][3][4]
She then joinedVFLW club Eastern Devils. In 2012 she suffered an ACL tear while training with the Devils, but continued to play on the damaged knee for the rest of the year without surgery, instead resting the injury for three months before returning and then another six months before having surgery to fully repair the injury.[5] In 2016 she averaged a goal per game for the club.[1]
While still playing state-league football and following herACL injury, Tesoriero started coaching netball, including for two years atYea and a year atMansfield.[1]
Tesoriero has also played football outside of Australia, representingWandsworth Demons in theAFL London competition.[6]
Tesoriero was selected byCollingwood with pick 107, and she described it as a "second wind", after considering retiring.[1] She made her debut in round 1, 2017, in the inaugural AFLW match atIkon Park againstCarlton.[7]
Collingwood re-signed Tesoriero for the2018 season during the trade period in May 2017.[8]
In June 2018, Tesoriero was delisted by Collingwood.[9]
Following her delisting, Tesoriero joined Richmond for the 2018VFL Women's season and began volunteering as a women's recruiter and scout the club.[5] In October 2018 she joined Richmond as a full time AFLW recruiter and accepted a role as a playing assistant coach for the 2019 VFLW season.[5] She suffered an ACL tear in her left knee while playing a match against NT Thunder in June 2019, but opted against a full surgical repair in favour of the quicker non-surgical return she had once before successfully completed while playing state-league football in 2012.[5]
Tesoriero was drafted byRichmond with the club's final selection and 96th pick overall in the2019 AFL Women's draft.[10]She made her Richmond debut againstCarlton atIkon Park in the opening round of the2020 season.[11]She announced her retirement on 25 March 2020.[12]
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 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 22 | 46 | 7 | 18 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 9.2 | 1.4 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | Collingwood | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 23 | 45 | 13 | 16 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 7.5 | 2.2 | 2.7 |
| 2019 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2020 | Richmond | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 12 | 21 | 3 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.3 | 3.0 | 5.3 | 0.8 | 2.3 |
| Career | 15 | 1 | 2 | 55 | 57 | 112 | 23 | 43 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 7.5 | 1.5 | 2.9 | ||
