Emma Quayle is anAustralian rules football recruiter withAustralian Football League (AFL) club theGreater Western Sydney Giants. She was previously a journalist atThe Age newspaper inMelbourne, Australia.
Joining as a cadet in 1999, she covered sport from 2001 to 2017, specialising in Australian rules football and in particular the under-18 system andnational draft. Quayle won several AFL Media Association awards for her news and feature writing, and in 2017 won a Quill award for best feature writing for her article on Essendon footballerAnthony McDonald-Tipungwuti. She was the first person to win three Grant Hattam awards, awarded by theAFL Players Association for the best football journalism. Quayle's first book,The Draft: inside the AFL's search for talent,[1] which followed the junior careers ofTrent Cotchin,Ben McEvoy,Brad Ebert,Cyril Rioli andPatrick Veszpremi in the lead-up to the2007 AFL draft, was published byAllen & Unwin in September 2008. A follow-up,The Draftees,[2] featuringIsaac Heeney,Jake Lever,Peter Wright,Tom Lamb andClem Smith, was published by Penguin in 2015. Quayle is also the author ofNine Lives, the story of former Essendon wingmanAdam Ramanauskas' battle with cancer.
In 2017, Quayle became the first female recruiter in the AFL when she joined the Greater Western Sydney Giants.[3]
