Fifteen year old Hannah McLaren is keen to follow in her father’s footsteps in the first AFL Victoria metropolitan all-female school based Umpiring Academy. Please click here to view the full article from the AFL Victoria website.
AFL UMPIRE Dean Margetts is recovering in an Adelaide hospital after a medical emergency forced his flight to make an unscheduled landing. Margetts had officiated in the Melbourne-St Kilda game at Etihad Stadium on Sunday evening. Please click here to view the full...
Nathan Williamson is a young West Australian field umpire with about 60 games of senior experience under his belt. So you can imagine his shock on a Monday morning three weeks ago when AFL umpires’ coach, Hayden Kennedy called to tell him that he would be...
Angus McKenzie-Wills is one of four new AFL goal umpires joining the AFL ranks in 2016, having originally started as a field umpire in 2006, before switching to the twin flags in 2009. Having been part of the inaugural NEAFL goal umpires’ list in 2011, Angus has...
Eleni Glouftsis is different, but she wants to be dealt with the same as everyone else. “I just want to be treated as one of the boys and do the best I can,” the AFL rookie-listed umpire says. Please click here to view the full article from The Age...
