Results we found for: Port Melbourne VFLW
Bulldogs’ skipper salutes as best in the league
WESTERN Bulldogs skipper Dominique Carbone is the toast of the Victorian Football League Women’s competition tonight, after she won the 2024 Lambert-Pearce Medal. She won the award with 17 votes, pipping Don El Chaston, Hawk Tamara Luke and Darebin Falcon Angelica Gogos for the award. Carbone in a tight battle early for the award, but […]
PREVIEW | Lambert-Pearce Medal 2024
TONIGHT is the of nights in the VFL Women’s competition, with the Lambert-Pearce Medal night set to take place in the heart of Melbourne tonight. The pinnacle award of the evening is the VFLW Best and Fairest the Lambert-Pearce Medal, named after Victorian football pioneers Helen Lambert and Daisy Pearce, but there are a number […]
Busy Stark chases multiple dreams
NORTHERN Territory’s Emma Stark is not your typical AFL Women’s Draft hopeful. The St Mary’s and Oakleigh Chargers young gun is not only a promising talent playing Australian rules football, but also officiating it too. Best known for her debut as the youngest field umpire at the elite level when officiating the Essendon-Hawthorn AFLW clash […]
Prosser-Shaw joins AFLW Academy duo at Combine
ONE of three NSW/ACT players to earn a National Draft Combine invite, Giants Academy utility Amelie Prosser-Shaw is in rare company. The top-age teenager out of the East Coast Eagles set her sights on representing the Allies at the Under 18 Championships, running out for GWS Giants’ VFLW side, and getting drafted at year’s end. […]
Debuts galore from 2023 AFLW Draft
A NEW AFL Women’s season is here, and as always, fans are most excited to see fresh faces filling up the teamsheets to see which new players can make their impact on the big stage. With no shortage of debutants coming into the side, particularly from last year’s AFLW Draft, we take a look at […]
Pearce’s persistence pays off with second chance at dream
OF all the stories of the last year, Lilly Pearce’s perhaps has the most twists and turns of them all. After starting 2023 playing for Southport in the QAFLW, she then found herself with an AFLW injury replacement contract at Richmond, before moving across to the VFLW and then being given a second chance at […]
Gourley’s giant new dawn on the edge of history
IT is a new dawn for Brett Gourley and many of his North Melbourne troops, with the team set to embark on its first VFLW Grand Final this weekend. Gourley said that it was “really exciting” to have made it to this stage of the season. “It’s been a long time coming,” he said. “It’s […]
Lin’s long career list not quite written yet
MAKING the AFLW is a huge achievement, but then getting delisted can be a huge shock to the system. That is the scenario Joanna Lin faced, having experienced both ends of the scale. Drafted to Collingwood in 2020, she played four seasons at the top before being delisted after the 2023 season. She said getting […]
Bulldogs bounce back to move through to Prelim
THE Western Bulldogs are through to the 2024 VFLW Preliminary Final after a two-goal win over Port Melbourne. The Bulldogs defence was the side’s strength, really restricting the Borough’s attempts to even get a shot away. It was tight, tough and it was congested early. The Borough were the ones doing much of the attacking […]
Motivated Morris doing all she can to chase her dream
IT has been a big last six months or so for young Casey Demons VFLW midfielder Olivia Morris. From the disappointment of missing out on being drafted to moving to a totally different state in pursuit of her football dream, there has certainly been a lot on the young talent’s plate. But despite the magnitude […]
