2025 AFLW Draft Q&A: Rhianna Ingram
ONE OF a number of talented Queenslanders in this year’s AFL Women’s Draft, Southport’s Rhianna Ingram had a top-age season to remember. Performing strongly throughout the Coates Talent League Girls and AFLW Under 18 Championships. We spoke to the Gold Coast Suns Academy member about her journey through the pathways, her game and who she […]
2025 AFLW Draft Q&A: Charlotte Gilmore
PRODUCING a breakout top-age season, Dandenong Stingrays’ Charlotte Gilmore got better and better as the season progressed. The hard-running wing earned a call-up to the Vic Country squad off the back of some terrific early Coates Talent League Girls form, and finished the year with a State Draft Combine invite. We spoke to Gilmore about […]
Antony “grateful” for Combine chance after injury-interrupted year
CENTRAL District defender Mikaylah Antony was never expecting to receive a Draft Combine invite after a frustrating, injury-interrupted top-age season. However despite separate hip and ankle issues that reduced her year to half a dozen games, the talented South Australian did indeed get the chance to test at the State Draft Combine. “I felt really […]
Continuity key for consistent Swan
AFTER injury plagued her last two national championships, West Australian Carys D’Addario showed what she is capable with some continuity in her game. Winning her state’s Most Valuable Player (MVP), earning All-Australian honours and then finishing second in Swan Districts’ WAFLW best and fairest, it has undoubtedly been an all-round successful year for the top-ager. […]
2025 AFLW Draft Q&A: Ashleigh Thatcher
A NEWCOMER to Eastern Ranges’ program this season, top-age talent Ashleigh Thatcher is a powerful midfielder/forward who slotted in seamlessly alongside a star-studded lineup. Thatcher comes from a netball background, but worked through the football pathways to earn her chance in the Coates Talent League in her draft-eligible season. We spoke to Thatcher at the […]
2025 AFLW Draft Q&A: Bree Horne
EASTERN Ranges athletic tall defender Bree Horne has come on in leaps and bounds throughout 2025, earning a call-up to Vic Metro off the back of being a lockdown back last season. Her athleticism has been on show throughout her top-age season and after missing the Coates Talent League Girls Preliminary Final due to illness, […]
Perth defender, Jets wing added to State Combines
TWO ADDITIONS to the AFL Women’s State Draft Combine have been made this week with Western Jets wing Charlie O’Connor Moreira having tested last Friday as part of the Victorian and eastern states combine, while Perth Demons defender Sienna Timmermans has been added for Sunday’s Combine in Western Australia. The additions come in the wake […]
2025 AFLW Draft Q&A: Elsie Conroy
GREATER Western Victoria (GWV) Rebels defender Elsie Conroy might have missed out on the initial Vic Country summer hub, but through some consistent form at Coates Talent League Girls level, earned a call-up to the national championships. There she was able to represent her state across two games before the defender’s campaign ended due to […]
2025 RMC Medal Final Leaderboard: Bown crowned winner
OAKLEIGH Chargers’ dynamo Chloe Bown has held on in one of the best Rookie Me Central Medal finishes of all-time to claim the gong and add to her ever-growing cabinet of accolades in 2025. Bown took the lead off Chloe Baker-West in Round 15, and then despite being relatively contained in the final round, managed […]
2025 AFLW Draft Q&A: Amy Smith
SANDRINGHAM Dragons top-ager Amy Smith overcame the “devastation” of missing out on the Vic Metro summer hub to get to work and earn a spot in the squad, playing all four games at the national championships. Having been utilised in a number of positions this year after an injury interrupted 2024 campaign with knee bone […]
