Peter Williams

Peter founded the Bound For Glory News Rising Stars program in 2012, and Draft Central in 2016, having followed the male and female footballing pathways for over a decade.

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State Academy notes: 2025 SANFLW – Preliminary Final

EIGHT State Academy members took to the field in the 2025 SANFL Women’s Preliminary Final as South Adelaide accounted for Sturt in a big way. The Panthers had five players and the Double Blues three with each of them having some sort of impact across the course of the do-or-die final.

2025 SANFLW Player Focus: Lily Baxter (South Adelaide)

HARD-RUNNING South Adelaide winger Lily Baxter is having a sterling finish to the SANFL Women’s season and through to another grand final for the Panthers. Baxter transformed her game from being a clever forward to a two-way running wing, and will play her third SANFLW decider in as many seasons on the weekend. In the […]

Rising Stocks: Skills on display at national carnival

A COUPLE of state sides have already wrapped up their AFL Women’s Under 18 Championships in Western Australia and Vic Metro, while the Allies will do so this coming weekend. Given last week’s AFLW Draft Power Rankings, we cast our eyes over six players – one from each state – who have moved up the […]

2025 AFLW Draft Q&A: Stephie Wilkins

SYDNEY Swans Academy member Stephie Wilkins is a speedy outside talent who loves to run and take grass whenever possible. A late year born top-ager (December), Wilkins has grown up following the Swans even prior to her Academy ties and has aspirations of representing the red and white in the the future as a wing/half-back. […]

2025 WAFLW Team of the Week: Round 16

FIVE WAFL Women’s teams shared in a league-high four players apiece for our Round 16 Team of the Week in an entertaining round of action. The four winning teams – Claremont, East Fremantle, Swan Districts and West Perth – as well as narrow loser Subiaco all had a quartet of representatives, while Perth had two, […]

2025 RMC Medal Leaderboard: Round 14

HEADING into the last month of Coates Talent League Girls action, mathematically up to 42 players are still in the running for the Rookie Me Central Medal, with 12 aspirants within 10 votes of the leading player, Chloe Baker-West. >> RMC Medal votes: Round 11 Leaderboard | Round 12 | Round 13 | Round 14 […]

Narrow wins shape up VFLW top six

AN INCREDIBLE penultimate round of VFL Women’s action had a significant impact on the race for the last spot inside the top six. Five sides are now locked in with a round to play, but after Round 13, three teams are fighting it out for sixth. Essendon jumped into the box seat with a five-point […]

Gorillas grab fourth with strong second half

WILSTON Grange has leapt past Bond University to snatch fourth spot following Round 13 of the QAFL Women’s competition on Saturday. The Gorillas were neck-and-neck throughout the first half, leading by nine points at the main break before booting four goals to one in the second half to come away with the 7.11 (53) to […]

“I’m not going to win it anyway” – Venning “overwhelmed” after medal success

WHILE few players head into a SANFL Women’s League Best and Fairest, West Adelaide’s Zoe Venning was so certain she told partner Kobe Ryan not to bother attending. However, just after 10pm local time last night, it was Venning up on stage on admitted that perhaps she was wrong and said Ryan had made the […]

Venning crowned SANFLW Best and Fairest

WEST Adelaide’s Zoe Venning is officially a SANFL Women’s League Best and Fairest winner after pipping South Adelaide’s Soriah Moon in the final game of the count to secure the win by one vote. Venning polled 24 votes with Moon on 23, while retiring superstar and past winner Jessica Bates (20 votes) finished third. The […]

Scouting Notes: 2025 AFLW U18s – Allies vs. Western Australia

WESTERN Australia kicked away from the Allies after a tight first half to finish off its AFL Women’s Under 18 Championships on a high. We took note of some of the players who caught the eye across the two sides in an entertaining contest up at Blacktown International Sportspark.

West Perth keep finals hopes alive by taming Lions

THERE is a heartbeat in West Perth’s WAFL Women’s season which looked to be on life support after going down to East Fremantle last round and having slumped to sixth spot heading into the huge contest with top of the table Subiaco. But in a true backs-against-the-wall performance, the Falcons dug deep to find a […]

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