\n Jake Waterman has been named in the WA team for the 2026 AAMI Origin match\n <\/p>\n
\n By westcoasteagles.com.au\n <\/p>\n
Star West Coast Eagles spearhead Jake Waterman has earned selection for Western Australia in the 2026 AAMI AFL Origin clash against Victoria on February 14.<\/p>\n
The All-Australian forward has been rewarded following his outstanding 2024 campaign, when he kicked 53 goals, and strong form in 2025 before suffering a season-ending shoulder injury in round 11.<\/p>\n
Waterman will follow in his dual premiership-winning father Chris\u2019 footsteps by donning the black and gold guernsey alongside Eagles teammate Liam Baker.<\/p>\n
West Coast recruit Brandon Starcevich was also selected for WA but has been withdrawn given he was not available to play the required amount of game time.<\/p>\n
Waterman, 27, said the opportunity carries deep personal significance.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an absolute honour to be picked to wear the Black Swan alongside a team of West Australians I admire immensely,\u201d Waterman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have been fortunate enough to represent WA many times throughout my junior days, so to be able to put the iconic black and gold jumper on again means the world to my family and I.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery proud of my teammates Liam Baker and Brandon Starcevich, as well as former teammate Tom Barrass for also being selected.<\/p>\n
\u201cBig thanks to the selectors for giving me the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Waterman said he is excited to reconnect with familiar faces and embrace the return of Origin rivalry.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t wait to get together with the crew, reunite with some old teammates, and give our all against the Big V,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The AAMI AFL Origin game will begin at 4:40pm WST on Saturday, February 14 at Optus Stadium, with the sold out match broadcast on Channel 7 and Fox, and streamed via 7Plus and Kayo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Waterman has been named in the WA team for the 2026 AAMI Origin match By westcoasteagles.com.au Star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-455820","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\/455820","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=455820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}