Mikayla Morrison (born 1 March 2002) is an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er who played for the

Fremantle Football Club The Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed the Dockers or colloquially Freo, is a professional Australian rules football club competing in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The team was founded in 1994 to represen ...

in the

AFL Women's AFL Women's (AFLW) is Australia's national semi-professional Australian rules football in Australia, Australian rules football competition for women's Australian rules football, female players. The 2017 AFL Women's season, first season of the l ...

(AFLW). Morrison was drafted by Fremantle with their second selection, and 30th overall in the

2020 AFL Women's draft The 2020 AFL Women's draft consists of the various periods when the 14 clubs in the AFL Women's competition can recruit players prior to the competition's 2021 season. Signing and trading period A significantly delayed trade period was annou ...

. As a junior she represented WA at the National Under 18s Championships in 2019, and was selected to be in the AFL Women's National Academy. After not playing a game in her first season, she made her debut in the 4th round of

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. In her third game, and first at home at

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, Morrison was one of Fremantle's best players, kicking 3 goals and receiving the weekly nomination for the

AFL Women's Rising Star The AFL Women's Rising Star award is presented annually to the best young player in the AFL Women's (AFLW) during the home-and-away season. The first award was awarded in 2017 AFL Women's Rising Star, 2017. The award has been sponsored by Telstr ...

award. However, in her next game she suffered an

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to her left knee that would end her season. Upon returning to training the following year, she suffered the same injury to her right knee. In October 2024, 973 days after her previous game, Morrison returned to play for Fremantle.

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playing statistics 2002 births Living people Fremantle Football Club (AFLW) players Australian rules footballers from Western Australia Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football 21st-century Indigenous Australian people {{AFL-bio-2000s-stub