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 […]
TOP 5s | 2025 AFL State Draft Combines
EASTERN Ranges defender Rod Ali was among the top performers in the 2025 AFL State Draft Combines last month. Ali recorded a remarkable 109cm running vertical jump – 19cm clear of his nearest State Combine rival – while also winning the standing vertical jump by seven centimetres. On top of his huge jumps, Ali finish […]
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 […]
TOP 10s | 2025 National AFLW Draft Combine
THE AFL has today revealed the top 10 results from testing conducted at this year’s AFLW National Draft Combine. Held at the State Netball and Hockey Centre in Parkville, participants completed the standing and running vertical jump, 20m sprint, and agility test. The 2km time trial was completed earlier in the week at the AIA […]
2025 AFLW Draft Combine 2km time trial: Ones to Watch
THE 2025 AFLW National Draft Combine kicks off today with the two kilometre time trial this afternoon at the AIA Centre. With up to 48 players taking part – though no doubt many with niggles or injuries will not – it gives AFLW clubs and recruiters an early glimpse into which players are among the […]
2025 Draft Combines kick off tomorrow
OVER the next two weeks a host of AFL and AFLW Draft hopefuls will take part in Draft Combines across three states. Victoria plays host to the National Draft Combines which feature the prospects with the most club nominations, as well as a a State Draft Combine with players from the eastern seaboards. A week […]
Additions round out draft combine list
THE AFL has finalised the list of state draft combine invitees, adding 19 players to the original tally of 32. It means 51 prospects will be put through their paces at fitness testing events held across Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia in October. >> MORE: National Draft Combine list, dates revealed Of the late […]
Top 10s | 2025 Girls National Preseason Testing
AN OVERALL podium finish from Oakleigh Chargers’ Skye Emery in the yo-yo test was the closest record-breaking attempt across the 2025 Girls National Preseason Testing days, following the release of the Top 10 results today. Events took place in seven of the eight states or territories over the course of the past two months, with […]
Top 10s | 2025 Girls Preseason Testing – Western Australia
THE FIRST of the AFLW Draft Preseason State Testing events is done and dusted with Western Australia’s young stars put to the test earlier this month at the Gold Netball Centre. Among the top performers were Claremont’s Ella Gilbey and Swan Districts’ Indiana West who finished among the top few in each of the running […]
Cox’s near-perfect score lights up Combine
AN INCREDIBLE athletic performance from Bendigo Pioneers’ Lavinia Cox saw her record a near-perfect Physical Performance Rating (PPR) across the four National and State Draft Combines that took place earlier this month. Following in the footsteps of now-Swan Holly Cooper who won with a score of 95 last year, Cox dazzled her way to a […]
