Besley enjoying first Academy experience
HAVING come from a multitude of different sporting backgrounds, South Adelaide Women’s Ella Besley is looking forward to her footy in 2022. The Panthers midfielder is a hard running midfielder who has been honing her craft in the juniors. Now that South Adelaide has a number of midfield opportunities for younger players, Besley is keen […]
Bays’ Boag harbours League ambition
“IT will be a good goal to push to play in the League team. That’s my aim at the moment, get a few games in there, it will be really exciting.” Glenelg Women’s teenager Ella Boag has her sights set on the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Women’s competition. Returning for her second preseason […]
Hough overcomes “scary” debut to adapt to League footy
STEPPING onto the football field as a 15-year-old, Sturt Women’s Tiah Hough admitted it was “a bit scary”. Luckily for the 158cm teenager, the support of her Double Blues teammates helped get her through a tough initiation in 2020, and then return to play four more games late in the 2021 season. Her journey itself […]
PODCAST | Game Sense – Episode 2
IN the newest Australian rules football podcast brought to you by Rookie Me Central, GAME SENSE host and Chief Editor Peter Williams and women’s football analyst Alyce Collett, spoke to a range of guests and previewed a number of teams in both the AFL Women’s and SANFL Women’s. GAME SENSE | EPISODE 2 GUESTS: AFLW […]
Zecevic finds “new level” with role change
AFTER honing her craft in her first season at SANFL Women’s level as a defender, Woodville-West Torrens Women’s Jovanka Zecevic has enjoyed the past two seasons as a midfielder/forward. The talented utility started her football journey out at Gaza in Division 3 of the South Australian Women’s Football League, where she played 28 games across […]
Constant growth the key to Macolino move
CHANGING teams is something all too familiar across any Australian rules football league, with new West Adelaide Women’s recruit Jess Macolino seeing it as a “growth opportunity”. The former Norwood Women’s midfielder felt she had got a bit “stagnant” and “complacent” within herself at the Redlegs, and was looking for a new change. She linked […]
Greet eyes more Roosters success
NORTH Adelaide winger Erica Greet wants nothing more than another Roosters premiership in 2022. The hard running outside midfielder got a taste for it when North went undefeated in 2020, and now she wants more. The former basketballer has had quite the journey through the pathways, and at 23-years-old still has plenty of time left […]
Versatile Sandford looking to make her mark on SANFLW
CENTRAL District’s Jessie Sandford has not yet debuted in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Women’s competition, but that should soon change. The versatile utility has a fierce attack on the ball and rates her ability overhead, capable of slotting in anywhere on the field. Speaking to Rookie Me Central at the SANFL Women’s […]
2022 AFLW Expansion rules: What it means
ESSENDON, Hawthorn, Port Adelaide and Sydney’s list-building allowances for expansion ahead of the 2023 AFL Women’s season have been decided. In an announcement from the AFL yesterday, the four newest AFL Women’s sides will enter the competition at the end of the 2022 season, and have a number of allowances. These include: Up to 14 […]
McCarthy excited for endless improvement
EARNING a call-up in the final round of the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Women’s competition, Sturt’s Millie McCarthy is ready for more. The talented key defender picked up seven disposals, three marks and four rebound 50s during the Double Blues’ Round 11 loss to North Adelaide. From there, McCarthy played both South Australian […]
Boon chooses footy, sets sights on improving
THOUGH she is yet to play a South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Women’s game, State Academy member Rosie Boon is excited about the prospect in 2022. The former basketballer was a late convert to football, and now she is focused on making it her number one sport, having chosen the oblong ball over the […]
2022 SANFLW fixture released
SOUTH Australian footy fans can start to make plans for the New Year, after the first seven rounds of the official 2022 South Australian National Football League Women’s (SANFLW) fixture was released yesterday. Though the competition will run for 12 rounds, from Round 8-12, the women’s competition will run parrallel with the men’s, with the […]
