FOOTBALL – AFLW – TOM HAYES
MORWELL football export Casey Sherriff has found a new home during the AFLW Trade Period, landing at Hawthorn.
The versatile utility previously played at Melbourne, winning a premiership in Season 7.
Sherriff joined Hawthorn in a trade with the Demons which saw the Hawks send Picks 5 and 26 to the Demons in exchange for Pick 16, Sherriff and fellow Dee, Eliza West.
Sherriff played 48 games for the Demons after being picked up as a replacement player for Daisy Pearce, who needed to step away from the game due to pregnancy.
She became an integral part of the Demons outfit, playing in two Grand Finals.
Fittingly, the Morwell product has strong links to the Hawks, barracking for the club growing up.
Casey is following in her father, Brett Sherriff’s footsteps, after he was also drafted to Hawthorn in the 1988 preseason draft.
After finishing 15th in 2022, then 14th in 2023 – the Hawks have only won six games in their AFLW history, which is hoped to be improved in 2024.
IN other trade news, we have gone from no Duursma’s on a Victorian team’s list to having three in the space of two months.
Foster’s Yasmin Duursma was recently traded to Carlton, in a deal that saw the Blues give up Pick 21, receiving Duursma and pick 25.
Duursma played 11 games for the Power over two years, and now joins her brothers Xavier (Essendon) and Will (North Melbourne) in Victoria – hopefully making the lives of the Duursma clan a little easier.
