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 2017 National Female Diversity Championships were run in Byron Bay last week with two teams from the New South Wales and ACT region taking part – Kickstart (Indigenous) and All Nations (Multicultural). The All Nations team, involving players who were…
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…
Sisters, Ruby and Nakira Riley-Brown this week represented AFL NSW/ACT in the Indigenous Kickstart team at the second annual AFL Female Diversity Championships in Byron Bay. This is the second Female Diversity Championships for the Kuku Yalungi and Gamilaroi women, who played 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…
Western Sydney’s Chloe Arndt capped off a successful year at last week’s 2017 NAB AFL Women’s Draft Combine in Melbourne. Playing as a part of the inaugural East Coast Eagles Women’s side in the AFL Sydney competition, Arndt’s call…
Fourteen-year-old Barkinji girl, Amber Evans grew up in the remote town of Ivanhoe, about six hours west of the South Australian in the middle of New South Wales. Having never played AFL before, it was not until Evans and…
Western Sydney’s Haneen Zreika was one of four players from the New South Wales and ACT region to take part in the inaugural NAB AFL Women’s Draft Combine last week in Melbourne. Across the two-day Combine, Zreika shone in the endurance…
This week, Pittwater Tigers Youth Girls player, Ellie Shefts will represent her state at the 2017 AFL Female Diversity Championships in Byron Bay. Here, Youth Girls footballers of Multicultural and Indigenous backgrounds from across Australia, will participate in a week-long,…
