This year marks the 30th anniversary of Auskick as a national program and for 20-year-old Eagles’ midfielder Ella Roberts, it’s where the journey all began.
Glen Quartermain
One of the AFL’s most colourful characters, Brendan Fevola, has a new gig ahead of the 2025 season and says it was like his first day being ‘drafted’.
Matt Shrivell
Spectators at Retravision Stadium will witness a colourful festival of footy as the third edition of Pride Round in the GSFLW’s competition involves a six-game showcase on Saturday.
Melissa Sheil
GEORGIE PARKER: Adapting to life after footy is hard as I know the struggle all too well. The deaths of Adam Hunter and Troy Selwood have rocked the sport but the league can try this idea to help ex-players.
Georgie Parker
Recently departing Fremantle and West Coast AFLW players will have the chance to play in new colours in 2025, here’s where they have landed.
Caitlin Bassett
Verity Simmons’ return to netball was sparked by a Facebook private message to NSW Swifts head coach Briony Akle in the weeks after she was delisted by West Coast.
Competition for fans, media and sponsors is fierce in all sports but the new WNBL CEO can see the benefits of women’s sports working together so they all succeed.
Craig O'Donoghue
As 2024 draws to a close The West Australian looks back on who grabbed the headlines as we countdown the top WA athletes for 2024. We unveil the top six, including the No.1 spot.
Samantha Rogers
As 2024 draws to a close The West Australian looks back on who grabbed the headlines as we countdown the top WA athletes for 2024.
Verity Simmons is returning to netball, with the West Coast Eagles AFLW convert set to make a comeback in her original sport with the NSW Swifts next year.
Chris Robinson
Fremantle recruit Bella Smith has revealed the opportunity to play with one Dockers star was behind her departure from Sydney.
West Coast draftee Kayla Dalgleish didn’t think she would be picked up in Monday night’s AFLW draft and is pinching herself about a cross-country shift to play for Daisy Pearce’s growing side.
From a Tiger cub to a Lion cub, Brisbane draftee Claudia Wright hopes the work put into her versatility will help her claw her way into the AFLW powerhouse side.
Fremantle star Mim and Dockers draftee Indi have opened up on the heartwarming moment the younger Strom sister was presented her jumper by the star ruck and what it means to be teammates in purple.
She’s got the best name in the AFLW - but what else is there to know about WA young gun Zippy Fish?
AFLW draftee Taya Chambers says she’s ‘ridiculously proud’ of the state’s draft crop after six West Australians were picked up this week.
Fremantle have drafted the younger sister of Mim Strom, with the star ruck surprising her sibling in one of the most heartwarming moments of the AFLW draft. WATCH THE VIDEO.
Western Australia’s top draft pick Molly O’Hehir says she’s grateful for the challenges faced this year, believing they helped her become a better person and player as she realised her AFLW dream.
New West Coast player Lucia Painter’s heart was so set on landing at the Eagles she has already started planning a shift across the country.
Fremantle has taken key forward Georgie Brisbane with their top pick in the AFLW draft on Monday night.
Jackson Barrett
Molly O’Hehir has pipped highly-touted prospect Zippy Fish to be the first West Australian taken in the 2024 AFLW draft.
The AFLW draft will get underway around 4.30pm WA time this afternoon, with dozens of West Australians among more than 700 players to nominate. See every WA player here.
East Fremantle women’s head coach Matt Templeton has issued a warning to AFLW clubs that passing over young midfielder Zippy Fish in Monday’s draft would come back to haunt them.
AFLW draft prospect Lily Paterson doesn’t come from a footy-mad family but she’s been making up for that.
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