AFLW Draft Q&A: Lily Smart
REIGNING Sturt Development League Best and Fairest winner Lily Smart made her senior debut last weekend, with the talented athlete getting a taste for the SANFLW. Playing off a wing, the teenager who won silver for Australia in the Under 18s Women’s Long Jump at the Oceania Athletic Championships showed she can compete at a […]
WAFLW 15 to Watch in 2025: #2 Evie Cowcher
WINNING just about every individual award she could for her club and state, intercept defender Evie Cowcher has quite the CV coming into her top-age season. She is the back-to-back Under 18s MVP as well as WAFLW Rising Star during her debut season, having consistently been one of Peel Thunder’s best players, week-in, week-out. EVIE […]
2025 CTL Girls: Dandenong Stingrays season preview
HAVING reached a grand final and successive preliminary finals over the last few years, the Dandenong Stingrays are never too far away from the ultimate success in the Coates Talent League Girls competition. Head coach Josh Moore has enviable depth at his disposal, with the Stingrays boasting five top-age Vic Country hub members and a […]
AFLW Draft Q&A: Molly Reimers
DANDENONG Stingrays forward Molly Reimers is a former basketballer who has found her home inside 50 for the country Coates Talent League Girls side. She added 12 games last season to eight in her first year at the Stingrays, after showing promising signs in the AFLW Under 16s carnival in 2023. Now entering her top-age […]
WAFLW 15 to Watch in 2025: #3 Mia Russo
AN EXPLOSIVE midfielder who can also go forward and make an impact, West Perth top-ager Mia Russo kicks off our podium of WAFL Women’s players to watch in 2025. Russo has some electrifying traits, and though injury limited her AFLW Under 18 Championships last year, the Falcons talent is a past MVP winner at Under […]
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 […]
