Last Sunday a women’s football carnival was held in Goomalling, with 3 women’s football teams competing. One of the teams was the “Yankeroos,” made up of 24 international students from the USA, studying at Notre Dame University in Fremantle.

The first time the Yankeroos girls saw Australian football was in August when they arrived in Australia to begin their 6 month study abroad program. read more »

by Jason Burton, South Fremantle Football Club
originally published in the Fremantle Gazette

Women's football is certainly getting more and more popular, and not just with Aussie girls that have grown up watching it. The “Yankeroos” are a group of students from the USA studying at Notre Dame University that have also taken a keen interest in Australia’s national game. read more »

There are 6,602,224,175 people worldwide who speak an estimated 6,500 different languages. The number of existing cultures remains incomprehensible. And since you began reading this, approximately 25 more people call Earth home. Within this continually changing world, few truly universal commonalities exist. What are these rare world unifiers? Sports. read more »

The first ever women's footy match in the UK was organised by Aussie Rules UK and was held in London on 21 April 2007 as part of the ANZAC Sports Challenge.

Great fun was had by all and Aussie Rules was most definitely the winner!

 For more info and photos, visit http://www.aussierulesuk.com/women.php 

BigFooty.com reports another first for Aussie Rules UK, with its first ever women's footy match being held in London on Saturday 21 April as part of the ANZAC Sports Challenge.

Should be a great day with over 5,000 people expected to attend.

See http://www.anzacsportschallenge.com/women_s_afl for more information.

Women from St Benedicts College in St Cloud, Minnesota and the University of Portland in Oregon have started a 3 month 'boot camp' footy program. The program is hosted and coordinated by South Fremantle Football Club (including a coach). read more »

by Stephanie McKitrick

Having gone to Australia to visit friends of mine, and never having heard of
Aussie Rules before, I was a little hesitant in joining a women's team. Now
after having trained and played for the past 7 months I am very glad that my
friend Lisa had talked me into joining with her. read more »

When Jesse Hrudka Wartman decided to study for a semester in Melbourne, she never imagined that she'd fall in love with a new sport. However, the Melbourne University MUGARS got their claws into her and recruited her for the women's footy team.  Jesse will be keeping us posted on her experiences playing footy before she returns home at the end of June.  She's already looking forward to  practicing with the Minnesota Morrigans before school starts in the fall. read more »