The GWS GIANTS AFL Women’s side will play four home games in the second season of the AFLW competition. Beginning their year against Melbourne at Casey Fields (Melbourne), the GIANTS will host their first home game in Round 2 against…
Originally published by The Australian. In the northern suburbs of Sydney, a sporting shift is under way. Prestigious girls schools are seeing an AFL surge in an area traditionally dominated by their male counterparts playing rugby. “I think the idea…
The AFL has announced the 2018 NAB AFL Women’s Academy squads, which include three players from the New South Wales and ACT region. Thurgoona’s Alyce Parker and Woorinen’s Jordyn Jolliffe have both been selected in the Level Two squad following stellar…
The GWS GIANTS AFL Women’s team for 2018 has been finalised. Picking up AFL NSW/ACT’s Haneen Zreika and South Australian Tait Mackrill in the Rookie Draft, the club hit their 30 player list limit this morning. Yesterday, the GIANTS selected…
Here is your guide to the 2017 NAB AFL Women’s Draft ahead of this morning’s event. 49 picks available to the eight AFLW clubs The number of picks allocated per club depends on the number of spots available on individual…
Originally published by AFL Media. She was born to be a GIANT. She just didn’t know it. Growing up in the western suburbs of Sydney, Haneen Zreika didn’t understand the rules of AFL. The NSW/ACT under-18 representative, who is aiming to…
The AFL Female Diversity Championships have wrapped up in Byron Bay with the closing ceremony being held this morning. The All Nations team finished the week with three wins, while the young Kickstart side performed strongly and never gave in…
Eight players from the AFL NSW/ACT region have been selected for the Woomeras and Medleys representative squads after impressing at the AFL Female Diversity Championships in Byron Bay this week. The AFL NSW/ACT All Nations squad had a successful week in…
Pippa Smyth had a standout 2017 NAB AFL Women’s Draft Combine last week at Melbourne’s Etihad Stadium. Ranking in the top ten in five of the six testing events, Smyth’s background as a personal trainer meant she was highly competitive across…
Over the past two years, the number of Indigenous players coming from the Kempsey region to represent New South Wales and the ACT at the AFL Female Diversity Championships, has become an expected positive to the team. The Female…
