Mikayla Bowen

Mikayla Bowen (born 17 April 2001) is an Australian rules footballer playing for Geelong in the AFL Women's (AFLW).

From Darlington, Perth, Western Australia,[1] Bowen tried athletics, basketball and soccer in her youth before settling on football around 2016,[2] playing recreationally at her school, Helena College.

[1] She also played for Swan Districts, a WAFL Women's (WAFLW) club, in their junior side, winning a best and fairest in 2016[1] and captaining the team to a premiership in 2017.

As an expansion club entering the AFLW in 2020, West Coast were permitted to sign up to 10 players from their academy before the end of the 2019 season; Bowen and Deegan were the first announced.

[6] She recorded eight disposals on debut as she was named on the wing and showed enormous pressure with ten tackles but it was not enough to get her team their first win in their first game.

[7] Bowen's round three match against the GWS Giants was her best game in her first season in the AFL Women's competition where she recorded 14 disposals, 3 tackles and her first goal in her career.