Port's Dowrick leads AFLW with 73 clearances
Abbey Dowrick leads the AFLW in clearances after moving to Port Adelaide at 18.
When Abbey Dowrick was 18, Fremantle wanted to draft her but she was struggling to get to training on time. Abbey Dowrick was hanging with the wrong crowd at school.
Abbey Dowrick regrets nothing now. Moving to Port Adelaide turned her life around, she says.
The change of state, the shift to elite habits, teammates like Scholz pushing her to lift, all of it worked. This season she's leading the whole competition in clearance numbers.
She credits Scholz's ruck work for making her job easier in the midfield. But it's also just growth: building her fitness over the off-season, learning from mistakes, surrounding herself with people who demand the best.
- 18
- Age when she moved
- 2022
- Port Adelaide entry year
- Western Australia
- State she moved from
Why it mattersDowrick's rise shows how a setback at the right moment can reset someone's path if they're willing to change their surroundings and habits.
AustraliaPort Adelaide women's team has one of the competition's standout midfielders this season, and her form is part of the Power's strong 2026 campaign.
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