Western Bulldogs

The Western Bulldogs (formerly the Footscray Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport’s premier competition. Founded in 1877 in Footscray, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, the club won nine premierships in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) before gaining entry to the Victorian Football League (since renamed the AFL) in 1925. The club has won two VFL/AFL premierships, in 1954 and 2016, and was runner up in 1961. It has also claimed one premiership in the AFL Women’s competition, in 2018, having been a foundation member of the league the previous year.

WBCF Volunteer of Year: Lori Drake

Lori Drake has been named the 2021 Volunteer of the Year by the Western Bulldogs Community Foundation. After completing Daughters of the West (DOTW) as a participant in 2019, Drake decided to give back by offering her time as a Digital Connector and Online Program Help Volunteer throughout the last …

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