Defending Premiers announce 2020 Leaders!

Premiership skipper Carly Res

The Tigerettes have announced their 2020 Leaders off the back of the most successful season in the Tigerettes 10 year History.

With the Reserve Grade playing in the Grand Final in only their 2nd season coupled with the 1st Grade winning their 2nd Flag in 3 seasons, all bodes well for 2020.

In 1st Grade, 2019 Premiership Captain Carly Res will continue with the role and will be supported by 4 time Best & Fairest Ella Ross and in only her second year with the club Ruby Grounds.

Ella Ross & Ruby Grounds have been added to the 1st Grade Leadership Group for 2020

AFL Canberra legend and Tigers Star Mel Hurley

Our Reserve Grade will be once again led by the very experienced AFL Canberra legend Mel Hurley and she will be supported by Lauren Flakelar.

The Tigerettes leadership program has continued it’s exceptional development over the past 12 months which has been led by Head Coach Chris Clifton and his coaching staff as well as the holistic club efforts contributed by Club Chaplin Scotty Minchin who works tirelessly with the playing group.

All appointments were discussed at a coaches meeting held last week with all players from the women’s program given due consideration. It was then identified that the above appointments were best to represent the club.

After the selections, the players selected were approached and provided an opportunity to respond to their selection with all giving the nod to take on such important roles for the program.

The women’s squads have now been back in training for the past two weeks with numbers being extremely high and a host of new players gelling well with the current list.

Congratulation again to the players selected for leadership roles and we look forward to another successful Tigerettes season.

Tigerettes Stalwart and Premiership Player Lon Flakelar

Ladies Day & 10th Anniversary Tigerettes Celebration

With the 2020 season looking more and more likely to begin, the Football Club is still pushing forward

with our celebration of our wonderful Tigerettes 10th Anniversary Ladies Day.

We are thrilled to welcome Carlton AFLW Superstar Jess Hosking as our guest speaker for the event and we hope you can all join us for what will be an historic and enjoyable celebration.

The club are now taking bookings for the event with the official invitation below.

Currently the date is still set for July 18th – HOWEVER this is likely to change once the AFL Canberra Draw is re-released. We will keep all confirmed and potential guests updated on changes as they develop.

For any reason the event is cancelled due to Covid, all tickets purchased will be refunded.

As per the invitation, Bookings can be made through this email with payments either through D/Deposit (details below) or credit card (phone or in person).

Please join us and help celebrate a wonderful group of women and support staff that have begun, developed and continue our Tigerettes program as well as celebrating all of our other wonderful ladies who contribute to our footy club each and every day.

We hope you can join us and I look forward to hearing from you,

Tigers Bank Details.

Account: QBN Tigers

BSB: 633000

Acc: 146698311

Ref: (name) Ladies Day

10th Anniversary of the Tigerettes!

Tigerettes 10th Anniversary Heritage Jumper

In 2020, the Queanbeyan Tigers will be celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Mighty Tigerettes inception into the AFL Canberra Women’s Competition. The players will be wearing a replica of their first jumper worn way back in year one for this years AFL Canberra Heritage Round.

The 10 year journey started with the idea driven by former Tuggeranong player Jacinta Froud who planted the seed of a Tigers Women’s team over a beer with then Football Manager Adrian Pavese at the Harman Hogs Presentation Night back in late 2009.

From there it was full steam ahead with the appointment of former Tuggeranong Women’s Premiership Coach Dave Matthews, stalwart Team Manager Joan Vosnakes and Trainers Wendy Downey and Judy Mustard leading from the front in the early years. And they were tough early years with 100pt loses being the normal for the girls but that didn’t deter their commitment to want to be better.

As the group developed and grew in numbers & depth, things started to change and results started to improve

The First Tigerettes Premiership Team 2013 Division 2 Premiers

Dave had to call time as Head Coach after 3 seasons due to having a young family with former club legend Robert Anderson taking the helm. While improvement was coming, the team still couldn’t quite catch the big four in Riverina, Ainslie, Eastlake and Tuggeranong. However the team did win 3 successive Division 2 Premierships under Anderson. Robert stood down at the end of the 2016 season and another finals campaign.

2017 Tigerettes 1st Grade Premiers

2017 – The year of the Tigerettes!

Cheyne Webster took over the squad in 2017 and the team was primed to now match the top end of the competition following their recent success in Division 2. It was a mighty season with the Tigerettes winning their first ever 1st Grade Premiership under Webster in an upset over defending Premiers Gungahlin.

Webster took the team to another 1st Grade Grand Final in 2018 to go down by 12pts against perennial premiership powerhouse Eastlake. Cheyne then relocated to Melbourne later that summer to work with North Melbourne affiliate Melbourne Uni with Chris Clifton taking the reins for the 2019 season.

1st Grade Premiership No.2

The 1st Grade dominance of the Tigerettes continued under Clifton who guided the team to another 1st Grade Premiership defeating Belconnen by 8 goals and only suffered 1 loss for the whole season.

It has been an awesome journey for this talented group of committed and driven women over the past 10 years which now includes a 2nd Tigerettes team formed in 2018 and that played in the 2019 AFL Canberra Regional Grand Final.

In the junior space, the club now fields female teams from Under 10s all the way to U18s Rising Stars who have played in the last 4 Grand Finals winning in their first Premiership in 2018.

Added to the Tigers Female program is the drafting of 4 Tigerettes into the AFLW competition with Ella Ross (2017 GWS GIANTS), Hannah Dunn & Lexi Hamilton (2020 Gold Coast Suns) and Jackie Parry (2020 Melbourne FC).

Along with the players, Chris Clifton (2020 Collingwood), Cheyne Webster (2020 North Melbourne), Adrian Pavese (2017/18 GWS GIANTS) and 2014 Tigers Men’s NEAFL Assistant Coach Bec Goddard (Adelaide Crows 2017 Premiership Coach & 2018) have coached in the AFLW.

The Hannah Dunn Academy

What does the next 10 years look like?

You can be sure of one thing, and that is the Tigers will continue to power forward with their female programs and continue to keep providing opportunities for females who want to play Aussie Rules and have a genuine pathway to higher levels.

Tigerettes Fun Facts:

First Player ever signed – Tegan Tisma

Total number of players from 2010 to 2019 – 166

Players still playing from the 1st team in 2010 to 2019 – Tegan Tisma, Jane Vucago, Kristen Argent (nee Turner) & Hannah Dunn.YEARCOACHCAPTAINBEST & FAIRESTPOSITION2010D. MatthewsJ. FroudK. TurnerLast2011D. MatthewsD. Louis / K. TurnerH. DunnLast2012D. MatthewsJ. FroudM. Hurley7th2013R. AndersonJ. FroudT. TismaDiv 2 Premiers2014R. AndersonH. DunnE. RossDiv 2 Premiers2015R. AndersonH. DunnC. ResDiv 2 Premiers2016R. AndersonH. DunnE. Ross1st Semi2017C. WebsterH. DunnE. RossPremiers2018C. WebsterH. DunnH. DunnGrand Final2019C. CliftonC. ResE. RossPremiers

100 Game Players

Lani Watson 138

Kristen Argent (nee Turner) 138

Hannah Dunn 134

AFL Canberra Women’s 1st Grade Leading Goal Kicker

2019 – Jackie Parry 60

Tigerettes Premiership Players: