2011 All-Australian Team Named
All Australian Women's AFL team for 2011 is:
NSW
Marie Keating, Roxy McGee, Libby Sadler
ACT
Elise O'Dea, Rebecca Hall
Queensland
Katie Brennan, Jo Butland
SA
Courtney Cramey
Tas
Maddison Smith
Vic
Aasta O'Connor, Daisy Pearce, Kara Donnellan, Karen Paxman, Shannon McFerran (C), Bree White, Melissa Hickey, Lauren Arnell, Stehphanie Chiocci
Coach - Peta Searle
WA
Chelsea Randall, Kirby Bentley, Melissa Caulfield, Nikki Harwood
Assistant coach - Nicole Graves
Field Umpire Amy McQuade (WA)
The players listed above in bold print will be invited to attend the boys AIS/AFL Academy during AFL Grand Final week in September 2011.
Each All Australian and the next best 8 players together with the best 10 All Stars from the 18s Youth Girls Nationals (to take place on the Gold Coast in September), will be invited to participate in the 2012 AFL Women's High Performance Academy during June 2012 in Melbourne. This will be an intensive week of skill and knowledge development and it's proposed to culimnate in a curtain raiser on the MCG prior to Melbourne FC v Collingwood on the Queen's BIrthday long weekend.
Additional players for the AFL Women's High Performance Academy:
ACT
Kasie Nugent, Karina Demant
NT
Kristy Irvine
SA
Danielle Cresp
Tas
Keiran Hutchinson, Jessica Wuetschner
WA
Tiah Haynes, Sarah Noga
Last Modified on 12/06/2011 21:21