TOP 5s | 2025 AFLW State Draft Combines
A WEST Australian speedster and agile Gippsland draft bolter were among the most prominent individual results at the AFL Women’s State Draft Combines across October. Claremont’s Ella Gilbey is known for her all-round athleticism, while Power player Baia Pugh showed no signs of the broken collarbone that ended her top-age season early.
Gilbey recorded the highest standing vertical jump – at any AFLW Draft Combine this post-season – with a leap of 60cm. She finished third in the 20m sprint, clocking a time of 3.176 seconds which would have put her fifth overall. Excluding the two explosive Irish stars from the National Draft Combine, South Australians Melissa Anderson and Sophie Thredgold would have gone one-two in the same test, with sub-3.2-second times.
Pugh was the fastest home in the agility test, becoming the only player to record a faster time than Eastern Ranges’ Asher Fearn-Wannan (8.3 seconds) with a 8.273-second run around the poles. East Perth’s Lucy Greenwood and Sturt’s Lily Smart rounded out the podium, with Smart also finishing top five in the running vertical jump and 20m sprint.
It was a Swan Districts dominated running vertical jump however with Sienna Gerardi (70cm) getting the chocolates over taller teammate Ava Stewart (69cm), with Geelong Falcons ball-winner Stella Huxtable emerging in third place (67cm).
The fastest 2km time trial occurred in the last event of the State Draft Combines, with Perth’s Sienna Timmermans blitzing the field with a sizzling time of 7:34. She was a late inclusion to the Draft Combine but made up for lost time, running it in six seconds faster than Gippsland Power’s Chelsea Sutton (7:40) and Sandringham Dragons’ Sienna Sharp (7:47) who rounded out the top three.
Standing Vertical Jump:
1. Ella Gilbey (Claremont/Western Australia) – 60cm
eq. 2. Aleah Stringer (Suns Academy/Queensland) – 57cm
eq. 2. Stella Huxtable (Geelong Falcons/Vic Country) – 57cm
4. Maya Louvel-Finn (East Fremantle/Western Australia) – 54cm
5. Melissa Anderson (South Adelaide/South Australia) – 53cm
Running Vertical Jump:
1. Sienna Gerardi (Swan Districts/Western Australia) – 70cm
2. Ava Stewart (Swan Districts/Western Australia) – 69cm
3. Stella Huxtable (Geelong Falcons/Vic Country) – 67cm
eq. 4. Maya Louvel-Finn (East Fremantle/Western Australia) – 66cm
eq. 4. Melissa Anderson (South Adelaide/South Australia) – 66cm
eq. 4. Lily Smart (Sturt/South Australia) – 66cm
20m Sprint:
1. Melissa Anderson (South Adelaide/South Australia) – 3.158 seconds
2. Sophie Thredgold (Sturt/South Australia) – 3.169 seconds
3. Ella Gilbey (Claremont/Western Australia) – 3.176 seconds
4. Maya Louvel-Finn (East Fremantle/Western Australia) – 3.222 seconds
5. Lily Smart (Sturt/South Australia) – 3.226 seconds
Agility Test:
1. Baia Pugh (Gippsland Power/Vic Country) – 8.273 seconds*
2. Lucy Greenwood (East Perth/Western Australia) – 8.338 seconds
3. Lily Smart (Sturt/South Australia) – 8.417 seconds
4. Sophie Thredgold (Sturt/South Australia) – 8.42 seconds
5. Sienna Gerardi (Swan Districts/Western Australia) – 8.435 seconds
2km Time Trial:
1. Sienna Timmermans (Perth/Western Australia) – 7:34 minutes
2. Chelsea Sutton (Gippsland Power/Vic Country) – 7:40 minutes
3. Sienna Sharp (Sandringham Dragons/Vic Metro) – 7:47 minutes
4. Annabelle Foat (Suns Academy/Queensland) – 7:55 minutes
5. Isabelle Creaton (Eastern Ranges) – 7:57 minutes
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