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Anytime Fitness Rising Star: Annaleise Xanthos

By Nick Armistead · June 25, 2018
Anytime Fitness Rising Star: Annaleise Xanthos

Huge congratulations to Marcellin winger, Annaleise Xanthos, who was named the Round 9 Anytime Fitness Rising Star following another standout performance for the Sheagles.

“This is Annie’s first year of senior football. She has played football as a junior and was part of the inaugural St Mary’s Junior Football Club’s girls team.

Annie has been a YJFL representative player and the captain of her Youth Girl’s team last year, and in fact stays involved in her junior club by helping coach some of the younger girls.

Growing up in a mad AFL Collingwood household and having some older brothers who played football, along with good friends has been Annie’s inspiration to play football.

In her junior playing days Annie was nick named “Buddy” for her uncanny ability to kick goals that should never have been kicked, since then she has developed into a great winger who plays like Robbie Gray. Annie is a hard nut who is known for her endurance, accurate kicking and tuff as nails, but honest tackling. Annie is someone who nearly always wins a one on one contest.

Annie is a very quiet and unassuming young lady with a cheeky and wicked sense of humour loved by all.”

  • Marcellin OCFC

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2025 Flag Feature – Tonner time at last!

Old Brighton entered the 2025 Premier Men’s competition as both the hunter AND the hunted. Externally, the club was widely seen as the clear premiership favourite, yet internally, the Tonners

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2026 Women’s Divisional Fixtures released

The VAFA Women’s competition will feature five Divisions in 2026, and the fixtures have been released, with Round 1 kicking off on Saturday, April 18. All five Women’s Divisions will

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Joy Division! For the Love of the Game’s 2026 Divisional Preview Show

Jason Bennett, Matty Donald & Brayden May return with the VAFA’s award-winning weekly podcast, FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME, for another season! First up, the boys are deep diving

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