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Breann Harrington

Australian rules footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ42302389
Source-derived summary

Breann Harrington (née Moody; born 4 March 1997) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Carlton Football Club in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). She was drafted by Carlton with the club's ninth selection and the sixty seventh overall in the 2016 AFL Women's draft. She made her debut in Round 1, 2017, in the club and the league's inaugural match at Ikon Park against Collingwood. Harrington finished 2017 having played in all seven of Carlton's matches that season. In 2018, Harrington received a nomination for the 2018 AFL Women's Rising Star award after recording 29 hitouts and eleven disposals in Carlton's round 5 loss to Adelaide. At the end of the 2018 season, she was the joint winner of the club best and fairest alongside Katie Loynes.

She received an All-Australian blazer for the first time in 2021 after being named as the ruck in the 2021 AFL Women's All-Australian team.

Personal life

Harrington is the daughter of race horse trainer Peter Moody, known for training Black Caviar. She has a twin sister, Celine Moody, who also played in the AFLW.

Harrington is currently studying a Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science/Bachelor of Business (Sport Management) at Deakin University.

Statistics

Statistics are correct to the end of round 11, 2025.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Breann Harrington” as australian rules footballer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 2016, 2017, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997-03-04. The account is most persuasive where Breann, Harrington and Australian can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as australian rules footballer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q42302389. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from Breann Harrington” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.