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Australian Football League Begins Talent Search For Inaugural Women's Competition

The Australian Football League "has begun identifying talent for its inaugural national women's competition, set to start in 2017, with a search underway to poach some of Australia's best female sports stars," according to Nathan Lay of the BRISBANE TIMES. Led by Melbourne captain and AFL female ambassador Daisy Pearce, "combines similar to those undertaken by potential AFL draftees will run over the next month to encourage talented athletes not registered as Australian footballers to take up the sport." A total of 105 athletes "across a wide range of sports were put through their paces at the first of six nationwide talent combines at Whitten Oval on Saturday." Basketball and netball "were the most represented sports, with a high number of Ultimate Frisbee athletes also attending." The best "will be offered a place in female state academies and state league clubs." From there, they "will be involved this year in an extended format of the 2015 women's exhibition games as AFL clubs begin gathering data on potential recruits for 2017" (BRISBANE TIMES, 1/25).

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