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Imogen Trengove

height: 164cm

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D.O.B: 25-04-2007

Leagues: SANFL Women's League, AFLW U18 Championships

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SNAPSHOT: “A natural leader with an elite all-round athletic base and terrific versatility.”

Imogen Trengove is the definition of a coach’s dream. The young Woodville-West Eagles talent and South Australian can play on any line, brings terrific defensive pressure and can easily go forward and hit the scoreboard as well. Few prospects can impact at both ends, and her speed-endurance mix is arguably the best in the draft crop.

Trengove has done the hard yards to get to this point, hailing from Bute on the Yorke Peninsula. The Eagles youngster started like so many others, joining a mixed team at the club with her family heavily involved including her dad as the coach. She eventually chased greater opportunities with her football and relocated to Adelaide where she boarded at Seymour College.

From there, Trengove not only played school football, but filtered into the Glenunga Rams. That was only in 2023, with the youngster comparatively a newcomer to that level of football. Despite that fact, Trengove was named amongst the best 12 times in her 17 games and booted eight goals for the Under 17.5 Rams.

That maiden season lead to Trengove catching the eye of talent staff at Woodville-West Torrens and South Australia. A rapid rise from local football to the Eagles and Croweaters saw the talented utility quickly establish herself at SANFLW level. Trengove averaged 11.8 disposals and 4.4 tackles in her first season with the Eagles side, largely playing in defence but also deployed further afield.

At the national championships it was a similar story, with Trengove showing some promising signs for South Australia, and while not in an attacking role to really flex her athletic muscles, she suggested she was in for a big top-age season. That she was, going from strength-to-strength playing forward and midfield for the Eagles, and averaging 16.2 disposals, 4.9 tackles and 2.1 clearances, while booting 10 goals in 13 games.

Coming into the South Australian program for a second year, Trengove earned the honour of captaincy, and played three matches at an average of 25.0 disposals, 2.0 marks, 5.7 tackles and 3.3 clearances per match. She also kicked three majors, and though she finished the championships in a moon boot, had done enough to earn All-Australian honours off the three games.

Trengove’s season catapulted her right up draft boards and in top 30 contention, securing a National Draft Combine invite when it was all said and done. Though she couldn’t test due to a thumb injury – which followed on from her ankle injury at the national carnival – Trengove has nothing to prove from an athletic standpoint given her outstanding numbers and obvious ability in that element on-field.

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STRENGTHS:

+ Speed-endurance mix
+ Agility
+ Versatility
+ Decision making
+ Competitiveness
+ Defensive pressure
+ Consistency

IMPROVEMENTS:

- Kicking efficiency
- Strength
- Aerial ability

Trengove's real point of difference compared to her peers is her balance of speed and endurance. Not only does she have the explosiveness to break lines and cover ground quickly, she provides all sorts of headaches for the opposition due to her elite endurance that enables to do it for a full four quarters. On top of that, her agility is also outstanding, winning that test at the South Australian Preseason Testing.

If you watch Trengove in action, there are more than a few times you blink and miss her going from the wing to the forward pocket. Somehow despite being the one to kick from the middle to centre half-forward, Trengove will bolt inside 50 and be the one loose in the pocket with an opponent flabbergasted as to how she covered that ground in such a quick period of time.

The talented Eagles young gun is practically 'untaggable' due to that fact, and while she is not necessarily the most polished of ball users, her metres gained and decision making helps her still be incredibly damaging. What she lacks in that final polish, she makes up for in unwavering effort and competitiveness.

Focusing on her ball use, Trengove has improved it considerably, because when she first entered the elite system, her ball drop and general technique was inconsistent and was a clear flaw. Over the last 12 months, Trengove has worked hard with specialist coaches - including ex-AFL player Daniel Menzel - to refine that technique. It's not perfect, but it has lifted to the point where it is an improvement rather than a deficiency.

Fortunately for Trengove, she usually makes good decisions with ball in hand, so once her execution improves further, she already has the smarts to put the ball into the right spots, and it is just really nailing down that last little bit.

Other improvements for Trengove include her strength and aerial ability, with the South Australian still working on her overhead marking particularly when under pressure. It is linked to her strength or physicality because she is a lighter player. That does not mean Trengove is any less fierce with the Eagles star a tenacious tackler with brilliant defensive pressure.

Her defensive attributes, competitiveness and natural leadership means Trengove guides others by her actions, while also being a well-spoken person. Already finished school and studying medical science in university, Trengove has been able to spend a lot of time focusing on her football and refining areas of her game in 2025.

Going forward, there is much improvement for Trengove to come, and that is a huge positive because it indicates upside, and what she already has down pat is very good. She can play half-forward, wing, on-ball or half-back with her athletic traits and endurance as good as anyone going around. If her rate of development continues at AFLW level, then watch out for Trengove as a star of the future.

DRAFT RANGE: 15-35

SUMMARY:

Imogen Trengove is a hard-running utility with plenty of traits both on the offensive and defensive ends. The Eagles young gun is a natural leader and she has enjoyed a wonderfully consistent season in 2025. If the South Australian is able to follow that trajectory at the top level, she will be in good stead for the future. The fact she has already relocated from home to Adelaide further illustrates that moving interstate will not be a problem for her.

SANFL Women's League

SeasonTeamKHBDMCPUPTHOCLRI50R50GLGMKHDMHOTGDC
2024Eagles Women's765413013004801520111116.94.911.81.20.04.40.143
2025Eagles Women's13279211170064027517101310.26.116.21.30.04.90.866
Total-2081333413000112042711811248.75.514.21.30.04.70.5109

AFLW U18 Championships

SeasonTeamKHBDMCPUPTHOCLRI50R50GLGMKHDMHOTGDC
2024South Australia Girls118192111030220025.54.09.51.00.01.50.033
2025South Australia Girls4332756344117091023314.310.725.02.00.05.71.093
Total-54409484551200111223510.88.018.81.60.04.00.6126
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