The Gold Coast SUNS will welcome a number of fresh faces to its AFLW squad at tonight’s AFLW Draft.
The SUNS will take a suite of selections into tonight’s 2023 Draft with its first selection currently sitting at Pick 35.
“It’s a real mix at looking at the best available talent and also some of our Academy players coming through the pathway,” GC SUNS Head of Women’s Football Fiona Sessarago said.
“Our Academy is so important to us. To have that pathway from our Academy straight into our program is fantastic.”
It’s the first time a fully-fledged AFLW Draft has been held since prior to Season Seven – the night in which Academy product Alana Gee was selected.
Current squad members who became SUNS players through previous drafts include Charlie Rowbottom (Pick 1, 2021), Ashanti Bush (Pick 8, 2021), Lucy Single (Pick 57, 2020) and Wallis Randell (Pick 61, 2020).
The event will be broadcast nationally on the AFL and AFLW websites and apps from 7:00pm AEDT.
2023 AFLW Draft order:
Round 1
1. Western Bulldogs
2. West Coast Eagles
3. GWS Giants
4. Western Bulldogs
5. Melbourne
6. Western Bulldogs
7. Carlton
8. Collingwood
9. Collingwood
10. St Kilda
11. Western Bulldogs
12. Melbourne
13. Richmond
14. West Coast Eagles
15. Sydney Swans
16. Hawthorn
17. Geelong Cats
18. Port Adelaide
19. Essendon
20. Brisbane Lions
21. Brisbane Lions
Round 2
22. Adelaide Crows
23. Melbourne
24. Port Adelaide
25. North Melbourne
26. Adelaide Crows
27. North Melbourne
28. Carlton
29. Collingwood
30. Sydney Swans
31. Brisbane Lions
32. Geelong Cats
33. Adelaide Crows
34. Brisbane Lions
35. Gold Coast SUNS
36. Brisbane Lions
37. Essendon
38. West Coast Eagles
39. GWS Giants
40. Melbourne
Round 3
41. Geelong Cats
42. West Coast Eagles
43. Richmond
44. Gold Coast SUNS
45. Hawthorn
46. North Melbourne
47. St Kilda
48. Western Bulldogs
49. Fremantle
50. Gold Coast SUNS
51. Gold Coast SUNS
52. Gold Coast SUNS
Round 4
53. GWS Giants
54. Fremantle
55. Melbourne
56. North Melbourne
Round 5
57. Melbourne
