page_title: Ebony Marinoff
section_title: 2018: National tackles record
hierarchical_section_title: Ebony Marinoff / AFL Women's career / 2018: National tackles record
caption_attribution_description: English: Sophie Armitstead, Ebony Marinoff and Dana Hooker contest in the AFL Women's preseason match between the Adelaide Football Club and Fremantle Football Club on 20 January 2018 at TIO Stadium.
context_page_description: Ebony Marinoff is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women's. Marinoff was named the inaugural AFL Women's Rising Star winner in 2017, and is a dual AFL Women's premiership player and dual AFL Women's All-Australian. She also won a premiership with Darebin in the VFL Women's in 2017 and represented The Allies in the inaugural AFL Women's State of Origin match later that year.
context_section_description: After an impressive start to the 2018 season, in round 4, Marinoff set a new record for tackles with 21 in her side's draw against Greater Western Sydney in heavy rain at Blacktown ISP Oval, breaking the record of 16 set by Carlton midfielder Sarah Hosking two weeks earlier. The effort also bested the existing men's league record of 19, thus setting the national senior-level record across men's and women's competitions for tackles. Marinoff later said regarding her physicality and tackling pressure:
  My mindset in a game is to get the ball, and tackling is part of my game... I don’t really think about it at all. I don’t know if it’s 21 tackles, or 21 times beaten to the ball.
  Marinoff was selected in afl.com.au's Team of the Week in rounds 3, 4, 5 and 7, and finished equal-fifth in the 2018 AFL Women's best and fairest count with six votes. She was also named in the initial 2018 AFL Women's All-Australian 40-woman squad. Marinoff again finished the season leading the competition in tackles (82) and average tackles per game (11.7); both statistics were better than her previous season and in less games (Marinoff played eight of eight possible games in 2017 and seven of seven possible games in 2018).
  Adelaide signed Marinoff for the 2019 season prior to the trading and signing period in May 2018 after she chose not to accept an offer from one of Geelong or North Melbourne.
caption: Marinoff (centre) playing for Adelaide in 2018
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