{"id":127329,"date":"2025-09-08T08:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/127329\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:04:08","slug":"aflw-injury-update-brooke-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/127329\/","title":{"rendered":"AFLW injury update: Brooke Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Scans confirm ruptured ACL for midfielder.\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"elementToProof\" data-ogsb=\"rgb(255, 255, 255)\">Essendon can confirm that\u00a0Brooke Walker will miss the remainder of the 2025 AFLW Season after rupturing her ACL in the round four match against Geelong on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"elementToProof\" data-ogsb=\"rgb(255, 255, 255)\">Walker suffered the injury through indirect contact in the fourth quarter, with scans on Monday confirming the results.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"elementToProof\" data-ogsb=\"rgb(255, 255, 255)\">Head of Medical Services Megan Smith said the coaches and playing group are rallying behind Walker, in what is a difficult time for the midfielder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"elementToProof\" data-ogsb=\"rgb(255, 255, 255)\">\u201cIt\u2019s incredibly unfortunate to lose Brooke to such a devastating injury,&#8221; Smith said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"elementToProof\" data-ogsb=\"rgb(255, 255, 255)\">\u201cShe is a fierce competitor and highly respected within the group, and we know she will approach her rehab with the same determination she brings to the field. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"elementToProof\" data-ogsb=\"rgb(255, 255, 255)\">\u201cShe will continue to have our full support throughout her recovery and rehab in the upcoming months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"elementToProof\" data-ogsb=\"rgb(255, 255, 255)\">The Club will continue to provide further updates on Walker\u2019s rehab and recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scans confirm ruptured ACL for midfielder. Essendon can confirm that\u00a0Brooke Walker will miss the remainder of the 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-127329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}