FREMANTLE superstar Kiara Bowers is determined to get even better in 2022 and wants to do it by having more impact as an outside player.  

Bowers was a co-winner of last season's AFLW best and fairest and won her third consecutive club champion award after a phenomenal season that saw her lead the League for clearances (6.3 a game) and tackles (10.3).  

Fully fit this pre-season and encouraged by the inside work being done by new captain Hayley Miller and draftee Dana East, Bowers believed she could improve the team by developing her outside game.   

"This year with Hayley stepping up and 'Easty' doing the body work in there I'm hoping that maybe I can get little bit more outside ball and not have to go in there as much," Bowers told womens.afl.

"Granted I will never give that up – I'll still always do that – but maybe a little bit more outside run and hit the forwards up a little bit more.  

"I definitely don't want to take that (inside strength) away from my game, I probably won't be able to. But I want to add to my game."

Bowers said she looked to the example set by former Dockers' captain Kara Antonio, who transformed from a tough midfielder to a hard-running winger and eventually a half-forward.

"'Juddy' was an inside player, and probably one of the best ones I played against," Bowers said.

"Now she's gone forward a little bit and she kind of runs that forward line now and does what she does for the team.

"It is incredible what she does, so if I can take a little bit of what she's got then that would be pretty good."

Miller's form this summer is another reason Bowers has the confidence to build on her outside game, with the 25-year-old shining this pre-season and ready to take charge of the midfield.

"She's been absolutely tearing it up. Thankfully she's our skip, and she's going to lead the girls the way she's been training," Bowers said.

"She's one of those girls who came back the fittest I've ever seen her, and she's just taken to the midfield and is running it.

"It's not look to me anymore, it's look to Hayley. She knows what she's doing, she's confident, and she runs through that midfield, and no one really stops her." 

Bowers has noticed a similar feeling in training this summer to the 2020 pre-season that saw the Dockers emerge as a force, winning six straight games before the season was called off due to COVID-19.

While their unfinished business from 2020 sparked motivation last year, there are different forces driving the Dockers now after the team bowed out in a qualifying final in its fifth AFLW campaign.     

"I think it is (different) because it's on us. We know what we can do, and we didn't do that," Bowers said.  

"This year we know what we have to do to be able to get there. We need to be better, and we definitely will be I reckon."

Fremantle has declared its premiership ambitions, publishing a strategic plan that maps out its target of at least two premierships – including one AFL and one AFLW – by the end of 2025.

The clear goals are exciting for Bowers, and she is confident the club can achieve them.

"If you were to say that maybe we want it, or maybe a few years later, that's not good enough," she said.  

"We want this and to me we want it now. We want it this year.

"That's my view of it and I love that the club have come out and been strong and voiced that.

"For me, that's what we want.”