| 2017 | |
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Sport | Australian rules football |
| Dates | 12 May–14 July |
Tournament format | Round-robin |
| Venue(s) | Adelaide Oval Blacktown International Sportspark Bond University Broadbeach Sports Club Simonds Stadium West Adelaide |
| Teams | 6 (div. 1) 3 (div. 2) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Vic Country (de facto) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 16 |
| MVP | Maddy Prespakis (Vic Metro) |
| Most goals | Eden Zanker (Vic Country) |
The 2017 NAB AFL Women's Under-18 Championships was played between May and July 2017, with six teams competing and with a further three playing in a two-match round-robin series as a de facto Division 2. [1]
An Allies side (made up of players from the division two competition) was introduced as a division one team. This was designed to give the best prospects from those regions the opportunity to play at a national level in the division one carnival. Thus, division one was made up of six teams—Allies, NSW/ACT, Queensland, Vic Country, Vic Metro and Western Australia—playing each other across five rounds. [2]
Vic Country was the only division one team to play four matches that went undefeated, making them the de facto tournament winners. Vic Metro's Maddy Prespakis was named the tournament's best player, while Vic Country's Eden Zanker was the competition's leading goalkicker. [3]
| Round 1 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday, 19 May | NSW/ACT 3.3 (21) | def. by | Queensland 3.6 (24) | Blacktown International Sportspark | Results |
| Saturday, 20 May | Western Australia 15.9 (99) | def. | NSW/ACT 2.0 (12) | Blacktown International Sportspark | Results |
| Sunday, 21 May | Queensland 6.8 (44) | def. | Western Australia 5.4 (34) | Blacktown International Sportspark | Results |
| Saturday. 17 June | Vic Country 8.6 (54) | def. | Vic Metro 4.3 (27) | Simonds Stadium | Results |
| Round 2 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, 10 July | Queensland 3.4 (22) | def. by | Vic Country 4.8 (32) | Bond University | Results |
| Monday, 10 July | Allies 4.2 (26) | def. | NSW/ACT 3.5 (23) | Bond University | Results |
| Monday, 10 July | Vic Metro 3.2 (20) | def. by | Western Australia 6.11 (47) | Bond University | Results |
| Wednesday, 12 July | Queensland 3.5 (23) | def. by | Vic Metro 7.3 (45) | Broadbeach Sports Club | Results |
| Wednesday, 12 July | Vic Country 6.6 (42) | def. | NSW/ACT 2.3 (15) | Broadbeach Sports Club | Results |
| Wednesday, 12 July | Western Australia 3.2 (20) | def. by | Allies 3.7 (25) | Broadbeach Sports Club | Results |
| Friday, 14 July | Vic Metro 6.8 (44) | def. | NSW/ACT 5.7 (37) | Broadbeach Sports Club | Results |
| Friday, 14 July | Vic Country 8.8 (56) | def. | Western Australia 5.4 (34) | Broadbeach Sports Club | Results |
| Friday, 14 July | Allies 5.3 (33) | def. | Queensland 3.8 (26) | Broadbeach Sports Club | Results |
| Round 1 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday, 12 May | Tasmania 1.3 (9) | def. by | South Australia 9.4 (58) | West Adelaide | Results |
| Saturday, 13 May | South Australia 15.9 (99) | def. | Northern Territory 1.3 (9) | Adelaide Oval | Results |
| Sunday, 14 May | Northern Territory 4.5 (29) | def. | Tasmania 6.5 (41) | West Adelaide | Results |
The 2017 Women's All-Australian team [4]
| B: | Lucy McEvoy (VC) | Rebecca Webster (VC) | Bridie Kennedy (VC) |
| HB: | Jordyn Allen (VC) | McKenzie Dowrick (WA) | Darcy Guttridge (VC) |
| C: | Tarni White (Qld) | Maddy Prespakis (VM) | Georgia Gee (VC) |
| HF: | Kalinda Howarth (Qld) | Rosie Deegan (WA) | Eloise Jones (SA/All) |
| F: | Tyla Hanks (VC) | Eden Zanker (VC) | Jordyn Jolliffe (NSW/ACT) |
| Foll: | Jessica Allan (SA/All) | Alyce Parker (NSW/ACT) | Courtney Hodder (WA) |
| Int: | Olivia Purcell (VC) | Arianna Clarke (Qld) | Sophie Conway (Qld) |
| Lauren Bella (Qld) | | ||
| Coach: | Not named | ||