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 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…
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…
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…
Sydney’s Nicky Steel says she was happy with the results produced at the inaugural AFL Women’s Draft Combine, held last week in Melbourne. A part of the four-player strong AFL NSW/ACT contingent taking part in the event, the Mosman Swan…
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,…
