State Academy notes: 2025 SANFLW – Round 1
AFTER a long preseason, South Australia’s State Academy members were back in action as the first round of the SANFL Women’s competition took place over the weekend. For another year, each week we take a look at how each of the State Academy members performed across the four games.
2025 SANFLW Player Focus: Sophie Eaton
STEPPING up in the absence of some quality departed teammates, top-age AFLW Draft prospect Sophie Eaton wasted no time showing why she is one of the classiest players in this year’s draft class. Eaton took the opportunity to go inside for Central District in the opening round of the SANFL Women’s, successfully making her progression […]
2025 CTL Girls: Calder Cannons season preview
SHARING the head coach role with Ross Smith in 2025, Nicola Tenabel has stepped up from the assistant position and is excited about what the new season holds for the Calder Cannons. We caught up with Tenabel at the recent Preseason Testing Day to hear how the club is shaping up ahead of Round 1. […]
WAFLW 15 to Watch in 2025: #4 Olivia Crane
UNFORTUNATELY an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear put a line through the talented Olivia Crane‘s bottom-age season, with the Subiaco prospect unable to get out for a home and away WAFLW or national championships match. Despite that fact, what she showed in her double bottom-age season suggests she will be among the top prospects in […]
2025 SANFLW Team of the Week: Round 1
A NEW SANFL Women’s season opened with some terrific individual performances and each of the eight teams has between two and four representatives in our Round 1 Team of the Week. In the case of comfortable winners South Adelaide, Central District and Woodville-West Torrens there were a quartet of representatives with West Adelaide and Glenelg […]
2025 CTL Girls: Bendigo Pioneers season preview
BOASTING three first round AFL Women’s draft selections last year, Bendigo Pioneers are on a high ahead the 2025 Coates Talent League Girls season. With three top-age Vic Country summer hub representatives and some others to watch, we caught up with coach Whitney Kennedy about her side this year. PRESEASON “The whole playing group has […]
RECAP | 2025 SANFLW – Round 1
THERE was a theme to three of the Round 1 SANFL Women’s winners, with almost identical scores for Woodville-West Torrens, South Adelaide and Central District. While each of the teams put up a total score of 52 or 53, they also kept their opponents to under five goals in comfortable victories to kick off their […]
WAFLW 15 to Watch in 2025: #5 Alicia Blizard
ATHLETIC tall forward Alicia Blizard kicks off the top five of our WAFL Women’s Ones to Watch countdown of top-age draft prospects with the East Fremantle talent having plenty of upside. Blizard looms as one who will only get better with further continuity, coming in and making an impact for both club and state in […]
SANFLW R1 MOTR: Lishmund draws first Blood for West
NEW West Adelaide recruit Alana Lishmund showed exactly why the Bloods recruited her, with the 2022 SANFL Women’s leading goalkicker booting two last quarter goals to seal her side’s come-from-behind win over North Adelaide yesterday. Lishmund finished with the last three goals for her side in the 5.7 (37) to 4.8 (32) victory. The Bloods […]
AFLW Draft Q&A: Meg Lappin
POTENTIALLY looming as the second father-daughter selection tied to an interstate club, Geelong Falcons’ Meg Lappin has been one of the big improvers the last 12 months. A raw tall who really found her feet as a bottom-ager, the daughter of Brisbane triple premiership player and 279-gamer Nigel enters her top-age year as one to […]
2025 SANFLW Round 1: Sunday preview
AFTER the first day of SANFL Women’s action took place today, we cast our eye across the final two games of Round 1 tomorrow which sees a couple of finalists go head-to-head, as well as a couple of teams keen to crack back into the postseason series.
WAFLW 15 to Watch in 2025: #6 Renee Morgan
ONE of the most wonderfully balanced players across the 2025 AFL Women’s draft class, Renee Morgan ticks plenty of boxes for as a naturally gifted footballer. She boasts smarts, skills, toughness and an ability to win the ball on the inside or outside and while others might be more explosive, Morgan gets her hands dirty […]
