Stat Leaders: NAB League Girls Round 6 – Craven’s 31 touches lead all comers
ROUND 6 of NAB League Girls action saw the Northern Academies join the league for the first time, and while technically one match is still yet to play after the two Queensland-based academies were not allowed in Victoria under COVID-19 restrictions, plenty of players across the remaining seven games stepped up to the plate. We […]
2021 Draft Central NAB League Girls Player of the Week: Round 6
TESS Craven has become the second Geelong Falcons player to be nominated for the Draft Central NAB League Girls Player of the Week for 2021, following on from teammate Annie Lee‘s nomination in Round 4. Craven recorded a competition season-high 31 disposals in Geelong’s loss to Sydney Swans Academy, as well as five marks, five […]
2021 DC Medal Count Leaderboard: Top two talents lead way with even chasing pack
TWO of Victoria’s top AFL Women’s Draft prospects are leading the way at the midpoint of the season in the Draft Central (DC) Medal count for NAB League Girls. Oakleigh Chargers’ Charlie Rowbottom has polled 19 of a possible 20 votes, three votes ahead of Calder Cannons’ Georgie Prespakis (16), with both players having played […]
2021 Draft Central NAB League Girls TOTW: Round 4
DANDENONG Stingrays and Geelong Falcons have picked up a Round 4 competition-high three players in the Draft Central NAB League Girls Team of the Week, in the most difficult week to split players across the board thus far. Every team had a representative, with the evenness between the last 26 so even that we opted […]
2021 Draft Central NAB League Girls Player of the Week: Round 4
GEELONG Falcons’ Annie Lee has been one of the most consistent performers this season, and was rewarded with the Draft Central NAB League Girls Player of the Week Award for Round 4 for another outstanding effort in defence. Lee was voted in as the Player of the Week over Northern Knights’ Megan Girolami who was […]
2021 Draft Central NAB League Girls TOTW: Round 3
SELECTING a 24-player squad for Round 3 was even more difficult than in the opening round, but Draft Central has released its NAB League Girls Team of the Week. In a weekend that featured mostly one-sided results, the biggest winners in Eastern Ranges had a record four players in the team, while Geelong Falcons, Greater […]
2021 Draft Central NAB League Girls TOTW: Round 1
FOUR teams have recorded an equal round-high three players in Draft Central’s first NAB League Girls’ Team of the Week for 2021. Calder Cannons, Geelong Falcons, Oakleigh Chargers and Tasmania Devils all had three players make the team this week, in what was a really difficult week to narrow down to just 24 players. The […]
Familiar faces set to lead versatile Falcons
VERSATILITY is set to be a key feature of the Geelong Falcons girls squad in 2021, according to new coach Paul Corrigan. He leads somewhat of a homecoming among the Falcons’ staffing ranks, returning to the region alongside incoming talent operations lead, Tom Lonergan – formerly of the Calder Cannons. Corrigan is also set to […]
Remmos hoping to follow Conti’s lead as a dual elite-level sportstar
CARLY Remmos has come a long way in a short season, going from basketball convert to AFL Women’s Draft Combine invitee off the back of just of a couple of games. The Geelong Supercats National Basketball League (NBL)1 player averaged 15 disposals, five tackles and kicked a goal from her two games in the 2020 […]
Optimistic Gardiner building in confidence
WHEN it comes to ball winners, Geelong Falcons’ Laura Gardiner is one to watch with an ability to not only accumulate the footy with ease but also use her game smarts to effectively dispose of the ball and do so consistently. The 165cm midfielder is one of a number of players coming through the statewide […]
