The 2022 NAB AFLW Premiership Cup Tour has completed its trip in Queensland today, with a visit to Cairns before making its way to Victoria tomorrow.
AFLW Gold Coast SUNS star Charlie Rowbottom was in Cairns to deliver the Cup to the North Cairns Tigers Football Club, which has created pathways for young girls from the Northern Cape to train and play women’s football.
The Cup also made its way across the Great Barrier Reef to Vlasoff Cay Island and paid a visit to The Australian Butterfly Sanctuary.
Before making its way to Cairns, the Cup visited local Brisbane clubs Morningside Panthers Football Club, Calamvale Leopards Junior Football Club and St Peter’s Lutheran College.
The Morningside Panthers Football Club has a full female talent pathway beginning at all-girls NAB AFL Auskick groups through to all-girls Superstars teams, while the Calamvale Leopards sits in the highest multicultural electorate in Queensland.
St Peters Lutheran College will compete for the silverware in the Queensland Girls Secondary Schools Sports Association which will see over 700 girls from Years 7-9 go head-to-head. 2022 marks the first year Australian Football has been included in the Queensland Girls sports calendar and is the first contact sport ever included in Queensland Girls sport.
Following today, the Cup will make its way to Victoria on Sunday, visiting Whittlesea Junior Football Club – a club that has four girls' sides and an additional women’s side in 2022. The Cup will also visit Sacred Heart Primary School in Croydon on Monday and Waverley Masters Football Club on Wednesday.
