{"id":204840,"date":"2025-11-06T10:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/?p=204840"},"modified":"2025-11-06T10:33:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:33:31","slug":"top-5s-2025-aflw-state-draft-combines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/2025\/11\/06\/top-5s-2025-aflw-state-draft-combines\/","title":{"rendered":"TOP 5s | 2025 AFLW State Draft Combines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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<\/a> is known for her all-round athleticism, while Power player Baia Pugh<\/a> showed no signs of the broken collarbone that ended her top-age season early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gilbey recorded the highest standing vertical jump – at any AFLW Draft Combine this post-season – with a leap of 60cm. She finished third in the 20m sprint, clocking a time of 3.176 seconds which would have put her fifth overall. Excluding the two explosive Irish stars from the National Draft Combine, South Australians Melissa Anderson<\/a> and Sophie Thredgold<\/a> would have gone one-two in the same test, with sub-3.2-second times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pugh was the fastest home in the agility test, becoming the only player to record a faster time than Eastern Ranges’ Asher Fearn-Wannan<\/a> (8.3 seconds) with a 8.273-second run around the poles. East Perth’s Lucy Greenwood<\/a> and Sturt’s Lily Smart<\/a> rounded out the podium, with Smart also finishing top five in the running vertical jump and 20m sprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a Swan Districts dominated running vertical jump however with Sienna Gerardi<\/a> (70cm) getting the chocolates over taller teammate Ava Stewart<\/a> (69cm), with Geelong Falcons ball-winner Stella Huxtable<\/a> emerging in third place (67cm).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fastest 2km time trial occurred in the last event of the State Draft Combines, with Perth’s Sienna Timmermans<\/a> blitzing the field with a sizzling time of 7:34. She was a late inclusion to the Draft Combine but made up for lost time, running it in six seconds faster than Gippsland Power’s Chelsea Sutton<\/a> (7:40) and Sandringham Dragons’ Sienna Sharp<\/a> (7:47) who rounded out the top three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Standing Vertical Jump:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Ella Gilbey (Claremont\/Western Australia) – 60cm
eq. 2. Aleah Stringer (Suns Academy\/Queensland) – 57cm
eq. 2. Stella Huxtable (Geelong Falcons\/Vic Country) – 57cm
4. Maya Louvel-Finn (East Fremantle\/Western Australia) – 54cm
5. Melissa Anderson (South Adelaide\/South Australia) – 53cm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Running Vertical Jump:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Sienna Gerardi (Swan Districts\/Western Australia) – 70cm
2. Ava Stewart (Swan Districts\/Western Australia) – 69cm
3. Stella Huxtable (Geelong Falcons\/Vic Country) – 67cm
eq. 4. Maya Louvel-Finn (East Fremantle\/Western Australia) – 66cm
eq. 4. Melissa Anderson (South Adelaide\/South Australia) – 66cm
eq. 4. Lily Smart (Sturt\/South Australia) – 66cm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

20m Sprint:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Melissa Anderson (South Adelaide\/South Australia) – 3.158 seconds
2. Sophie Thredgold (Sturt\/South Australia) – 3.169 seconds
3. Ella Gilbey (Claremont\/Western Australia) – 3.176 seconds
4. Maya Louvel-Finn (East Fremantle\/Western Australia) – 3.222 seconds
5. Lily Smart (Sturt\/South Australia) – 3.226 seconds<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agility Test:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Baia Pugh (Gippsland Power\/Vic Country) – 8.273 seconds*
2. Lucy Greenwood (East Perth\/Western Australia) – 8.338 seconds
3. Lily Smart (Sturt\/South Australia) – 8.417 seconds
4. Sophie Thredgold (Sturt\/South Australia) – 8.42 seconds
5. Sienna Gerardi (Swan Districts\/Western Australia) – 8.435 seconds<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2km Time Trial:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Sienna Timmermans (Perth\/Western Australia) – 7:34 minutes
2. Chelsea Sutton (Gippsland Power\/Vic Country) – 7:40 minutes
3. Sienna Sharp (Sandringham Dragons\/Vic Metro) – 7:47 minutes
4. Annabelle Foat (Suns Academy\/Queensland) – 7:55 minutes
5. Isabelle Creaton (Eastern Ranges) – 7:57 minutes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lucy Greenwood clocked up the fastest agility time at the State Draft Combines. Image credit: Rookie Me Central<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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