Name: Savannah Bawden
Age: 15
Position: Midfield.
Junior club: Mt Evelyn.
Suburb: Mt Evelyn.
How long have you played football for: Three years.
What do you enjoy about it: The team and the physicality.
Any other sports you have played: Basketball.
Any achievements: I played representative basketball for Kilsyth Cobras.
Who do you follow in the AFL: Hawthorn.
What are your ambitions with your football: I’d like to play AFL when I am older.
Hobbies: Shopping.
Greatest sporting moment: When we won the premiership last year for Mt Evelyn. It was pretty close and low-scoring.
Name: Ash Watt
Age: 16
Position: Ruck and centre-half forward.
Junior club: Norwood.
Suburb: Warranwood.
How long have you been play football for: This is my third season.
How did you get into it: I played it for school footy and then I really liked it so I joined a club.
What are your ambitions this year: To learn to be able to kick and become a better player.
Any other sports you have played: I did swimming and netball.
Why did you take up football: I like the physicality of it and it is a good team game.
Do you have a favourite women’s player: Not at the moment, although I do like Darcy Vescio.
What do you like about her: She is just a really good kick and a really good player.
Favourite AFL team: Richmond.
Hobbies outside of sport: The gym and my friends.
Greatest sporting moment: The premiership last year for Norwood against Knox. The two games before that we lost to Knox. We were nervous coming in and then we came out and scored in the first quarter and smashed it from there.
Do you have a player you model your game on: Dusty Martin.
Name: Charlotte Wilson
Age: 16
Position: Midfield/ruck.
Junior club: Ferntree Gully.
Suburb: Olinda.
How long have you been playing football for: Three years.
Your ambitions this year: I guess just to learn new things and work hard.
What do you want to learn: Just how to do things properly and how the game works.
Do you have some goals you would like to achieve in your football career: Make AFL.
Favourite AFL team: Carlton.
Hobbies outside of sport: Exercise.
Name: Laura McClelland
Age: 15
Position: Midfield and centre-half back.
Junior club: I played with the boys at Monbulk but now I play for Ferntree Gully with the girls.
Suburb: Monbulk.
How long have you played for: Since I was nine or 10.
How did you get into football: My brother played so I just wanted to be like him.
What do you enjoy about it: I feel we can be exactly like the boys. There is no difference between us.
What are your ambitions with football this year: Probably just starting in this team.
Do you have a favourite women’s player: Probably Daisy (Pearce) because of the way she has conducted herself.
Favourite AFL team: Melbourne.
Hobbies outside of football I play volleyball and basketball.
Any accolades: I played for Australia with volleyball and went to Thailand for that in the under-17s.
What was that experience like: Pretty hard. The teams were younger than us but still beating us. They had done it their whole life so we were pretty inexperienced. There were only 30 girls chosen from around Australia so we didn’t really get to train together until we got there but it was really fun. It was a new experience and new culture so it was amazing.
Greatest sporting moment: We won the grand final in footy last year so that was pretty good. The scoreboard didn’t really show how tight the game was, we won by a fair bit but it was still a good game.
Do you have a player you model your game on: Not really, I just take advice from Dad and my brother.
Name: Paige Buruma
Age: 15
Position: Midfield.
Junior club: I used to play for East Ringwood but I’m playing for Knox this year.
Suburb: Wonga Park.
School: Luther College.
How long have you been playing for: This is my first season.
Why did you take it up: We did school football and I really liked it and my Dad has said I could always play football.
What do you enjoy about it: I enjoy the contact of it.
Your ambitions for the season: I want to make the final squad for the Ranges and warm up for the upcoming seasons.
Do you have a favourite women’s player: When I went to the AFL Women’s game, I liked Darcy Vescio.
What did you like about her: I liked that she used her body well.
Do you have a favourite AFL team: Richmond.
Hobbies outside of football: Basketball and catching up with friends.
Your greatest sporting moment: Probably winning my basketball grand final. It was a pretty close game, low-scoring but we smashed it.
Do you have a player you want to be like: Dusty Martin because of the ‘don’t aruge’.
Name: Hayley Tucker
Age: 16
Position: Locally I played in the midfield but in the V/Line Cup and this I have been more full back and full forward.
Junior club: Mt Evelyn.
Suburb: Mt Evelyn.
School: Mount Lilydale.
How long have you been playing for: This is going to be my second season.
Why did you take it up: I played school football and I really liked it and my family is full into football and strong supporters and I have always loved it.
Any other family members that play: My dad did, my little brother plays and my little sister has started up as well.
What are your ambitions this year: To make the start team.
Do you have a favourite women’s player: Daisy Pearce. I like her leadership and the way she has taken it on. She is inspiring.
AFL team: Collingwood.
Favourite hobbies: Sport and catching up with friends.
Greatest sporting moment: Winning the grand final last season for Mt Evelyn. It was us against Chirnside Park and throughout the year we were rivals. It was nerve-wracking. It was a close game and then in the last quarter we just got it.
Is there a player you model your game on: Scott Pendlebury. I like the way he plays and his attitude and his leadership.
Name: Emma Horne
Age: 15
Position: On-ball.
Junior club: Billanook College.
Suburb: The Patch.
School: Billanook College.
How long have you been playing for: This will be my first club season but I played school football for two years.
What do you enjoy about it: I like how there are so many different aspects to the game and it is such an all-rounders sport.
What are your ambitions for the year: Just to develop my game around the contest and hit targets more when it is a fast-paced game.
Favourite women’s player: Brianna Davey. She plays for Carlton but she played at the Western Bulldogs. She gives 100 per cent effort all the time and she is a very strong player. She goes at every contest as hard as she can.
AFL team: Adelaide Crows. My dad is from South Australia.
Hobbies: Any exercise really and catching up with friends.
Greatest sporting moment: Winning the basketball grand final on a buzzer-beater a few years ago. Basically, we finished in the top-four and our first game in the finals was against Knox and we hadn’t beaten them all season. We lost that game and then the next one we won. In the grand final we came up against Knox and we hadn’t beaten them for the season. We were down by eight points with seven minutes left and we came back out of nowhere and a girl shot a buzzer-beater. It was the best thing that has ever happened to me. It was crazy, there was a massive group hug on the court.
Player you model your game on: I really like Rory Sloane. He has a really good attack on the ball and he just throws everything at it. He is a workhorse, he just runs like crazy.
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