Vice Captain - 2017-2018
Up until the age of 23, Cutting’s sporting focus was on swimming and competing in long distance freestyle events. In 2009 she competed at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival. In 2012 she won the Channel 7 Brighton Jetty Classic; won a gold and a bronze medal in the Swimming World Cup in Singapore and finished tenth in the 2013 World University Games 10km marathon swim (in of all places – Russia). Cutting credits her swimming background for enhancing her aerobic capacity after she made the switch to football.
After her swimming career concluded, a friend of Cutting invited her out to train at the Morphettville Park Football Club. From there, she was allocated to play for Norwood in the inaugural SANFLW competition year of 2017, where she was appointed co-vice captain (with Whitney Benson).
In the very first game of the SANFLW, Cutting won the tap at the first centre bounce and wrote her name into the SANFLW history books as the first player to register a statistic in the competition. Cutting’s dominance as a tap-ruck was critical in delivering Norwood the inaugural premiership that year, earning her a coveted premiership medal.
In 2018, Cutting was awarded Norwood’s “Best Team Woman” at the end of the season and by 2019, she had been appointed co-Captain with Rebekka McMahon. Cutting was then selected in The Advertiser’s SANFLW Team of the Year for 2019.
In 2021, Cutting created another slice of SANFLW history. She had not missed a game since the inception of the competition, and along with North Adelaide’s Leah Tynan, the two became the first players to reach 50 SANFLW games. That season, Cutting was again named in the Advertiser SANFLW Team of the Year and also finished third in Norwood’s Best and Fairest count.
In 2022, Cutting was picked up by St Kilda in the AFLW as a free agent. This meant having to take seven months of unpaid leave from her position as a police officer with South Australia Police, to chase her dream of playing at the highest level.
In 2023, Cutting moved to play for Woodville-West Torrens in the SANFLW and Essendon in the AFLW.
Chris Brown, October 2024