GWS Giants star becomes first contact sportswoman to donateCerebral degradation described as ‘ticking time bomb’How Barclay’s death could help us understand concussion in sport AFLW player Jacinda Barclay, who died last year, has become the first contact sportswoman in Australia to have her brain donated to the
Australian Sports Brain Bank, where researchers have uncovered neurological damage that they described as a “ticking time bomb”.
Barclay, who died in Chidlow, WA, last October aged 29 after a short but intense period of mental illness, was found by brain bank researchers to have degradation to her cerebral white matter.