The 2017 NAB

AFL Women's Under-18 Championships 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 p ...

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. 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. 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

Madison Prespakis Madison Prespakis (born 2 November 2000) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Essendon Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She previously played for the Carlton Football Club from 2019 to season 6. A midfielder who won multipl ...

was named the tournament's best player, while Vic Country's Eden Zanker was the competition's leading goalkicker.

Fixture

Division 1

Division 2

All-Australian team

The 2017 Women's All-Australian team

Initial squad

* NSW/ACT:

Alyce Parker Alyce Parker (born 15 August 2000) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). Early life and junior football Parker was born and raised in Holbrook, New South Wales A ...

, Georgia Breward,

Haneen Zreika Haneen Zreika (born 15 April 1999) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She is the first person of Lebanese descent, and the first Muslim, to play in the AFL Women's. Initia ...

, Ellie Delgano-Fixture, Jordyn Jolliffe * Northern Territory:

Danielle Ponter Danielle Ann Ponter (born 8 January 2000) is an Australian rules footballer playing for Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She played for St Mary's and Essendon in her junior career, typically as a forward. Ponter was selected w ...

* Queensland: Kitara Farrar, Ruby Blair,

Arianna Clarke Arianna Clarke (born 6 April 1999) is a retired Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions in the AFL Women's. Early life Clarke was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. At the age of 13, she moved to the Gold Coast where ...

, Courtney Bromage, Gabby Collingwood, Tarni White, Lauren Bella,

Sophie Conway Sophie Conway (born 6 April 1999) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Brisbane Lions in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). Conway was raised in Bracken Ridge, Queensland and attended St Rita's College. She was a talented hock ...

, Kalinda Howarth, Jemma Abott * South Australia: Nikki Gore, Eloise Jones,

Chloe Scheer Chloe Scheer (born 7 October 1999) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Geelong Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Early life and state football Scheer was a talented underage cricketer, classed as a top order batswoman. Sh ...

, Jess Allen * Tasmania: Mia King, Daria Bannister * Vic Country: Rebecca Webster, Courtney Jones, Iilish Ross,

Bridie Kennedy Bridie Kennedy (born 23 September 1999) is an Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton and Sydney in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She played junior representative football with the Dandenong Stingrays in the TAC Cup Girls competition wh ...

, Lucy McEvoy, Georgia Clarke, Darcy Guttridge,

Tyla Hanks Tyla Hanks (born 15 February 2000) is an Australian rules footballer playing for in the AFL Women's (AFLW). An inside midfielder, she played junior football in the TAC Cup Girls and VFL Women's, and competed at four AFL Women's Under 18 Champio ...

, Jordyn Allen, Aisling Tupper,

Olivia Purcell Olivia Purcell (born 5 September 2000) is an Australian rules footballer with the Melbourne Football Club#AFL Women's team, Melbourne Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Early life Purcell was born in Geelong, Victoria and is the second-y ...

Georgia Gee Georgia Gee (born 28 October 1999) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Essendon Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Gee was drafted by Carlton with their first selection and twelfth overall in the 2017 AFL Women's draft. She ...

Rene Caris Rene Caris (born 18 March 1999) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She has previously played for and . Caris is from Horsham, Victoria and attended Ballarat Grammar School. She played with Greater Wes ...

Denby Taylor Denby Taylor (born 19 February 2000) is a retired Australian rules footballer who played with the Geelong Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Taylor grew up in Geelong, Victoria with her parents, Pete and Pauline, and three older sisters, ...

, Eden Zanker * Vic Metro: Olivia Vesley, Georgia Ricardo, Georgia McPherson, Molly Warburton,

, Maddy Guerin, Olivia Flanagan, Georgia Patrikios, Emerson Woods * Western Australia:

Sabreena Duffy Sabreena McKinnon ( Duffy, born 26 March 2000) is an Australian rules footballer who played for Fremantle Football Club#AFL Women's team, Fremantle and Melbourne Football Club#AFL Women's team, Melbourne in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She was known ...

, McKenzie Dowrick, Courtney Hodder, Sonia Dorizzi, Tayla McAuliffe, Emily McGuire, Kate Bartlett, Rosie Deegan

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