| Ruby Schleicher | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Schleicher playing for Collingwood's VFLW team in 2018 | |||
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Ruby Jayne Schleicher[1] | ||
| Born | (1998-03-16)16 March 1998 (age 27) | ||
| Original team | East Fremantle (WAWFL) | ||
| Draft | No. 137,2016 national draft | ||
| Debut | Round 1, 2017,Collingwood vs.Carlton, atIkon Park | ||
| Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position | Defender | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Collingwood | ||
| Number | 18 | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 2017– | Collingwood | 74 (7) | |
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of the 2025 season. | |||
| Career highlights | |||
| Source:AustralianFootball.com | |||
Ruby Jayne Schleicher (/ˈslaɪʃər/SLY-shər;[2] born 16 March 1998) is anAustralian rules footballer playing for theCollingwood Football Club in theAFL Women's (AFLW). Schleicher is a dualAFL Women's All-Australian and won theCollingwood best and fairest award in 2024. She has served asCollingwood captain since 2025.
As a juniorbasketball player with theWilletton Tigers, Schleicher won the Western Australian Basketball League (WABL) Female Player of the Year award in 2014.[3] She also represented the under-16 and the under-18 Western Australian Metropolitan teams.[4][5][6] She was on the way to receiving a basketball scholarship at an American college, before breaking avertebra playing and half-a-year later breaking one on the other side whilesurfing, which as a result of the college decided not to risk her.[7]
In 2015, Schleicher was named in the Western Australian squad for theAFL Youth Girls National Championships.[8] In 2016, she played with the WA Youth Girls team who made the Grand Final, before getting the opportunity to play senior football for her localWAWFL clubEast Fremantle. In her last game of the year she was the startingruck for East Fremantle in the Grand Final.[9]
In the winter during the off-season between the2017 and2018 AFLW seasons, Schleicher decided to stay in Melbourne and play in theVFLW with the St Kilda Sharks.[10] She debuted with the St Kilda Sharks in their round 1 match against Eastern Devils, winning by one point.[11]
Schleicher was selected byCollingwood with pick 144, joining 22 other West Australians drafted in theinaugural AFL Women's draft,[12] and was the youngest player drafted by Collingwood.[9] She made her debut in round 1, 2017, in the inaugural AFLW match atIKON Park againstCarlton.[13]
Collingwood re-signed Schleicher for the2018 season during the trade period in May 2017.[14]
Collingwood re-signed Schleicher for the2019 season during the trade period in June 2018.[15]
In the2021 AFL Women's season, Schleicher was awarded with her maidenAll-Australian blazer, named on the half back position.[16][17] It was revealed Schleicher had signed on with Collingwood for two years on 10 June 2021.[18] Schleicher achieved selection in Champion Data's 2021 AFLW All-Star stats team, after leading the league for total intercept possessions and intercept marks in the2021 season.[19]
In 2024, Schleicher was named among Collingwood's best players in losses to Sydney in week 1[20] and West Coast in one of week 4's matches,[21] and was Collingwood's best player in its other week 4 loss to the Western Bulldogs.[22]
On 6 December 2024, Schleicher was awarded thebest and fairest in Collingwood's AFLW team, with a total of 110 votes across the 11 games for the season, just overtaking the first-year playerLucy Cronin, with 102 votes. Schleicher averaged 26.5 disposals for the season, and totaled 60 intercept possessions and 48 tackles across the season.[23]
In July 2025, Schleicher was named the Collingwood AFLW captain for the 2025 season, following the captaincy ofBrianna Davey.[24]
Updated to the end of the 2025 season.[25]
G | Goals | K | Kicks | D | Disposals | T | Tackles |
B | Behinds | H | Handballs | M | Marks |
| Season | Team | No. | Games | Totals | Averages (per game) | Votes | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | B | K | H | D | M | T | G | B | K | H | D | M | T | |||||
| 2017 | Collingwood | 18 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 0 | 15 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 0 |
| 2018 | Collingwood | 18 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 20 | 6 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.8 | 1.2 | 4.0 | 1.2 | 1.8 | 0 |
| 2019 | Collingwood | 18 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 13 | 36 | 9 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.8 | 2.2 | 6.0 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 0 |
| 2020 | Collingwood | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 1.5 | 5.5 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0 |
| 2021 | Collingwood | 18 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 115 | 62 | 177 | 46 | 29 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 10.5 | 5.6 | 16.1 | 4.2 | 2.6 | 2 |
| 2022 (S6) | Collingwood | 18 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 115 | 83 | 198 | 54 | 35 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 10.5 | 7.5 | 18.0 | 4.9 | 3.2 | 6 |
| 2022 (S7) | Collingwood | 18 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 116 | 54 | 170 | 35 | 48 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 10.5 | 4.9 | 15.5 | 3.2 | 4.4 | 3 |
| 2023 | Collingwood | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 21 | 4 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.0 | 3.5 | 10.5 | 2.0 | 3.5 | 0 |
| 2024 | Collingwood | 18 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 92 | 90 | 182 | 19 | 48 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 16.5 | 1.7 | 4.4 | 1 |
| 2025 | Collingwood | 18 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 72 | 71 | 143 | 26 | 67 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 7.2 | 7.1 | 14.3 | 2.6 | 6.7 | 4 |
| Career | 74 | 7 | 6 | 578 | 395 | 973 | 200 | 268 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 7.8 | 5.3 | 13.1 | 2.7 | 3.6 | 16 | ||
