All-Australian Team
VIC Seniors: Michelle Dench (Melb Uni), Shannon McFerran (St Albans), Meg Hutchins (Deakin), Lauren Tesoriero (Yarra Valley), Janine Milne (Darebin).
Michelle Dench is an Australian sportswoman who played women's Australian rules football and basketball in the Women's National Basketball League.
Shannon McFerran is an Australian rules football player in the Victorian Women's Football League. She currently plays at St Kilda Sharks women's football team.
Meg Hutchins is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW).
VIC U19's: Daisy Pearce (Darebin), Karen Paxman (Hadfield), Penny Cula-Reid (St Kilda), Moana Hope (Darebin), Lauren Arnell (Darebin).
Daisy Pearce is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Widely regarded as the face of women's Australian rules football and one of its first ambassadors, Pearce served as Melbourne captain in the competition's first two seasons, having also captained the club in the women's exhibition games staged prior to the creation of the league. She also served as captain of Darebin in the Victorian Women's Football League (VWFL) and VFL Women's (VFLW) from 2008 to 2016.
Penny Cula-Reid is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the AFL Women's competition.
Moana Hope is a former professional Australian rules footballer playing for the North Melbourne Football Club. Hope was de-listed by North Melbourne at the end of the 2019 season.
ACT: Kirsten Ireland (Riverina)
ADF: Emma Hender (Eastlake)
NSW: Talei Owen (UNSW/Easts)
NT: Michaeline Brown (St Mary's)
QLD: Katherine Pender (Centrals), Aastra O'Connor (Logan), Joanne Butland (North Cairns)
Joanne Butland is an Australian who has played association football, Australian rules football and international rules football.
SA: Michele Reid (Greenacres)
WA: Nikki Harwood (Melville Dockers), Krystle Rivers (Coastal Titans), Louise Knitter (The Hawks), Jodie White (Coastal Titans).
Australian rules football matches between teams representing Australian colonies, states and territories have been held since 1879. For most of the 20th century, the absence of a national club competition and international matches meant that football games between state representative teams were regarded with great importance. Football historian John Devaney has argued that: "some of the state of origin contests which took place during the 1980s constituted arguably the finest expositions of the game ever seen".
Women's Australian rules football, also known simply as women's football or women's footy, is a form of Australian rules football played by women, generally with some modification to the laws of the game.
Softball in Australia is played in Australia.
The 2007 AFL Women's National Championships took place in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. The tournament began on 11 June and ended on 16 July 2006. The 2006 tournament was the 16th Championship, the previous one being held in Sydney in 2006. The Senior-vics of Victoria won the 2006 Championship, defeating Western Australia in the final. It was Victoria's 15th successive title.
The 2005 AFL Women's National Championships took place in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The tournament began on 19 June and ended on 24 June 2006. The 2005 tournament was the 14th Championship, the previous one being held in Adelaide in 2004. The U19-vics of Victoria won the 2005 Championship, defeating Senior-vics of Victoria in the final. It was Victoria U19's 1st title.
The 2004 AFL Women's National Championships took place in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. The tournament began on 19 June and ended on 24 June 2004. The 2004 tournament was the 13th Championship. The Senior-vics of Victoria won the 2004 Championship, defeating the U19-vics of Victoria in the final. It was Victoria's 13th consecutive title.
The 2003 AFL Women's National Championships took place in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. The tournament began on 19 June and ended on 24 June 2003. The 2003 tournament was the 12th Championship. The Senior-vics of Victoria won the 2003 Championship, defeating Queensland in the final. It was Victoria's 12th consecutive title.
The 2002 AFL Women's National Championships took place in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The tournament began on 29 June and ended on the 4 July 2002. The 2002 tournament was the eleventh Championship. The Senior-vics of Victoria won the 2002 Championship, defeating the Australian Capital Territory in the final. It was Victoria's 11th consecutive title.
The 2001 AFL Women's National Championships took place in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The tournament began on 29 June and ended on 4 July 2001. The 2001 tournament was the 10th Championship. The Senior-vics of Victoria won the 2001 Championship, defeating Queensland in the final. It was Victoria's 10th consecutive title.
The 2000 AFL Women's National Championships took place in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The tournament began on 29 June and ended on 4 July 2000. The 2000 tournament was the ninth Championship. The Senior-vics of Victoria won the 2000 Championship, defeating Western Australia in the final. It was Victoria's ninth consecutive title.
The 1999 AFL Women's National Championships took place in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. The tournament began on 19 June and ended on 24 June 1999. The 1999 tournament was the 8th Championship. The Senior-vics of Victoria won the 1999 Championship, defeating Western Australia in the final. It was Victoria's 9th consecutive title.
The 1998 AFL Women's National Championships took place in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The tournament began on 19 June and ended on 24 June 1998. The 1998 tournament was the 7th Championship. The Senior-vics of Victoria won the 1998 Championship, defeating Western Australia in the final. It was Victoria's 8th consecutive title.
The 2006 NAB AFL Under 18 Championships was the 11th edition of the AFL Under 18 Championships. Eight teams competed in the championships: Vic Metro, Vic Country, South Australia and Western Australia in Division 1, and New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory (NSW/ACT), Northern Territory, Queensland and Tasmania in Division 2. The competition was played over three rounds across two divisions. Vic Metro and Queensland were the Division 1 and Division 2 champions, respectively. The Larke Medal was awarded to Victoria Metro's Tom Hawkins, and the Hunter Harrison Medal was won by Queensland's Ricky Petterd.
The 2004 National AFL Under 18 Championships was the ninth edition of the AFL Under 18 Championships. Eight teams competed in the championships: Vic Metro, Vic Country, South Australia and Western Australia in Division 1, and New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory (NSW/ACT), Northern Territory, Queensland and Tasmania in Division 2. The competition was played over three rounds across two divisions. Vic Metro and the Northern Territory were the Division 1 and Division 2 champions, respectively. The Michael Larke Medal was awarded to Victoria Metro's Jesse W. Smith, and the Hunter Harrison Medal was won by the Northern Territory's Richard Tambling.
Melissa Hickey is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Geelong Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She has served as Geelong captain since the club's inaugural season in 2019. Hickey previously played for the Melbourne Football Club from 2017 to 2018. She has also played in the Victorian Women's Football League/VFL Women's since 2009, representing the Darebin Falcons and St Albans Spurs. In the VWFL/VFLW, Hickey has won seven premierships, represented Victoria on three occasions and featured in the VFL Women's team of the year.
Libby Birch is an Australian rules footballer who plays for Melbourne in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She played the first 3 seasons of AFLW for the Western Bulldogs. She previously played netball and captained Victoria at the National Netball Championships. Birch is currently studying a Physiotherapy degree at La Trobe University. In 2016, Birch switched from netball to Australian rules football and was recruited by the Western Bulldogs as a rookie after having only played football for three months for the Darebin Falcons in the VFL Women's.
VFL Women's (VFLW) is the major state-level women's Australian rules football league in Victoria. The league initially comprised the six Premier Division clubs and the top four Division 1 clubs from the now-defunct Victorian Women's Football League (VWFL), and has since evolved into what is also the second primary competition for AFL Women's (AFLW) clubs in Victoria. The league runs from May to September, running concurrently with the Victorian Football League (VFL).
The NAB AFL Women's Under 18 Championships are the annual national Australian rules football championships for women players aged 18 years or younger. The competition is seen as one of the main pathways towards being drafted into a team in the professional AFL Women's competition (AFLW). Originally known as the AFL Youth Girls National Championship, the competition has teams of players representing their states and territories in a round robin tournament. The tournament is currently sponsored by the National Australia Bank. The winner of the 2019 tournament was Vic Metro.
The 2018 NAB AFL Women's Under 18 Championships was played between May and July 2018, with six teams competing in the main 'Series 2' round robin tournament and with a further four playing in a two-match on-on-one exhibition as the competition's initial 'Series 1'.
The 2016 edition of the AFL Youth Girls National Championships was held from 2 May to 6 May in Melbourne, Victoria. Nine teams competed in the round-robin tournament, divided into pool A: Queensland, Western Australia, Vic Country and Vic Metro; and pool B: the Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, a combined New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory side (NSW/ACT) and the Indigenous Australian Woomeras.
