{"id":348977,"date":"2025-12-15T06:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T06:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/348977\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T06:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T06:18:11","slug":"fremantle-dockers-stalwart-kiara-bowers-among-six-re-signings-ahead-of-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/348977\/","title":{"rendered":"Fremantle Dockers stalwart Kiara Bowers among six re-signings ahead of 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Fremantle stalwart Kiara Bowers will remain in purple for the next AFLW season after committing to a one-year contract extension with the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The Dockers announced on Tuesday the 34-year-old hard-nosed midfielder had signed on for their 2026 campaign, in which she, Hayley Miller and Gabby O\u2019Sullivan will be the only remaining foundation players still featuring for the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Bowers is the owner of a glittering individual resume which includes winning the league\u2019s best and fairest and AFL Coaches\u2019 Association\u2019s awards in 2021, four club best and fairest medals and the same number of selections in the All Australian side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">After missing their 2024 campaign due to pregnancy, Bowers returned to the field last season and was a key figure in Fremantle\u2019s push for the finals, which ended with a loss to Adelaide in the final round of the home and away season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Bowers was among six players the Dockers announced they had re-signed ahead of tonight\u2019s AFLW draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Utility Sarah Verrier has put pen to paper on a three-year deal, emerging defenders Jess Low and Indi Strom have signed on until the end of the 2027 season, and Madi Scanlon and Indi West have both extended their contracts through to the end of next season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/dd775345966d90badffaee936abd673c056461a2.jpg\" alt=\"Sarah Verrier has signed a three-year contract extension with Fremantle.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconSarah Verrier has signed a three-year contract extension with Fremantle. Credit: Daniel Carson\/AFL Photos\/AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The moves leave the Dockers with three open list spots ahead the draft, which they will take picks No.35, 40 and 45 into.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Fremantle\u2019s AFLW list manager Darren Fry said the club was delighted to further add to their core group of players who had committed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cEach of these players bring something different to our program and they all play an important role in driving our standards every day,\u201d Fry said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cWe\u2019ve now got a really strong backbone of senior players who are not just experienced, but deeply invested in what we\u2019re building.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fremantle stalwart Kiara Bowers will remain in purple for the next AFLW season after committing to a one-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,25912,64,63,55,639,10124,588,85],"class_list":["post-348977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-aflw","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-fremantle-dockers","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348977","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=348977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}