Tryouts began in June and Northern Lights coach Jake Anson has been scouting players from across Canada to represent their country when they play the USA in August 2010.   Final selections were made at the 2009 USAFL championships in Mason, OH.  Coach Anson and AFL Canada are proud to announce the 2010 Northern Lights Team:

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University of Wisconsin/Madison business and sports management student Jacqueline Theiler has become the first US student to join the West Australian Football Commission on an internship.

Jacqueline, who has moved to Perth (WA) as part of an international student abroad program at Murdoch University, will work with the West Australian Country Football League in the areas of sponsorship delivery, marketing, event management and general administration duties. read more »

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.