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2017 AFL Women's Best And Fairest
The 2017 AFL Women's best and fairest was the first year the award was presented to the player adjudged the best and fairest player during the AFL Women's (AFLW) home-and-away season. Erin Phillips of the Adelaide Football Club The Adelaide Crows (officially the Adelaide Football Club) are a professional Australian rules football team based in Adelaide, South Australia. Founded in 1990. The Crows has fielded a men's team in the Australian Football League (AFL) since ... won the award with 14 votes. Leading votegetters Voting procedure The three field umpires (the umpires who control the flow of the game, as opposed to goal or boundary umpires) confer after each match and award three votes, two votes and one vote to the players they regard as the best, second-best and third-best in the match, respectively. The votes are kept secret until the awards night, and are read and tallied on the evening. The winner of the 2017 AFL Women's best and fairest was Erin Phillips, rece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erin Phillips
Erin Victoria Phillips (born 19 May 1985) is an Australian rules footballer for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition, a radio host, and a former professional basketball player. She played nine seasons in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) for five different teams and is a two-time WNBA champion. She also represented Australia on the women's national basketball team, winning a gold medal at the 2006 FIBA World Championship for Women and serving as a co-vice captain at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Additionally, Phillips has played five seasons in the AFLW with the Adelaide Football Club, in which she is a three-time premiership player and two-time league best and fairest. Phillips's father Greg played professional Australian rules football for , where he was an eight-time premiership player and earned an induction into the Australian Football Hall of Fame. Phillips played only Australian rules football until age 13, switching to b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaitlyn Ashmore
Kaitlyn Ashmore (born 8 November 1991) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Hawthorn Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She has previously played for Brisbane and North Melbourne. She was drafted by Brisbane as a priority signing in the 2016 AFL Women's draft. Early football career Ashmore first played football in Ballarat. In 2012, she became a Vic Country representative in Australian rules football, and in the same year won the Pierre de Coubertin award from the Victorian Olympic Council as the most outstanding athlete. The next year, she was selected by the Melbourne Football Club to compete in the first AFL-sanctioned women's exhibition match against the Western Bulldogs. She was selected by Melbourne again in 2014. After playing for Melbourne against the Western Bulldogs for two years, Ashmore was drafted by the Bulldogs with pick number 13 in the 2015 women’s AFL draft. With the Bulldogs in 2015, she played in the first ever women's AFL game to be li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umpire (Australian Rules Football)
An umpire is an official in the sport of Australian rules football who adjudicates the game according to the " Laws Of The Game", the official handbook of Australian Rules Football. Umpiring the game of AFL across all leagues be it professional or juniors just starting have been subject to long history of abuse, in 2022 the AFL a long all the other associations have stepped up to help stamp out that abuse. Origins Unlike many other codes of football, where the official is called a ''referee'', in Australian rules football the officials are called umpires. Tom Wills, one of the founders of the Australian game, was the earliest known umpire of a football match in Australia. At first the captains of both teams shared the duty of officiating games, but as the game became more professional in the 1880s, umpires became an important aspect of the game. Abuse Banter and questioning the umpires decisions at events have been around the sport since the sport began. That questioning ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darcy Vescio
Darcy Vescio (born 3 August 1993) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Carlton Football Club in the AFL Women's competition. As a heavily marketed marquee player, Vescio has been referred to as a "household name" in Australia by ESPN. Junior and state league football Vescio began playing football with their brother at the age of five. Vescio was a participant in the Auskick program. They stopped playing competitive football at the age of fourteen, when they were no longer allowed to play with the youth boys team. Vescio started playing again at the age of eighteen, when they moved to Melbourne from their home town of Wangaratta and joined the Darebin Falcons in the Victorian Women's Football League (VWFL). They won four premierships with the club in consecutive seasons from 2013 to 2016, and won the Lisa Hardeman Medal for best on ground performances in two of these matches in 2015 and 2016. Vescio has represented Victoria at the AFL Women's National Championship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daisy Pearce
Daisy Pearce (born 27 May 1988) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition. Often regarded as the face of women's Australian rules football, Pearce has served as Melbourne captain since the competition's inaugural season, having previously captained the club in the women's exhibition games staged prior to the 2016 creation of the league. She captained Victoria in the inaugural AFL Women's State of Origin match in 2017, where she was adjudged best afield. Pearce began her state league playing career in 2005 with the Darebin Falcons in the Victorian Women's Football League (VWFL) in 2005, captaining the club from 2008 to 2016. She is a ten-time premiership player (seven times as captain), seven-time league best and fairest winner in the VWFL and VFL Women's (VFLW) competitions and five-time Darebin best and fairest winner. She represented Victoria at both under-19 and senior level, and was recruited by Melbou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elise O'Dea
Elise O'Dea (born 4 September 1991) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Carlton Football Club#AFL Women's team, Carlton Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She served as List of Melbourne Football Club captains#AFL Women's, Melbourne co-captain for the 2019 season. Early life O'Dea was born in Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) to a family of Melbourne Football Club supporters and started playing football at fourteen years of age when she joined the Belconnen Magpies Football Club women's team. She made her senior debut in round one of the 2006 season against Ainslie Football Club, Ainslie in the AFL Canberra, AFL Canberra Women's competition. She was selected as part of the ACT representative teams in 2006, 2007, 2009, and 2011. O'Dea was also named part of the 2011 All-Australian women's team, and won both her club and league's best and fairest awards in 2012. Football career O'Dea moved to Victoria, Australia, Victoria in 2013 to join ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Kearney (sportswoman)
Emma Michelle Kearney (born 24 September 1989) is an Australian rules footballer and former cricketer. A decorated midfielder in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition, Kearney won the league's best and fairest award while playing for the in 2018 and has captained since 2019. She previously played cricket for the Melbourne Stars in the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) and for Victoria in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL). Early life Kearney was born in the Victorian town of Hamilton, and raised on a sheep station in nearby Cavendish. She played football through her early years, but was forced to give up the sport at the age of twelve when barred from playing with the youth boys team. She attended high school at Monivae College in Hamilton. Australian rules football State league and representative football Kearney returned to football while studying a physical education teaching degree at university in Ballarat. She began playing state league football in 2010, joining Mel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Dal Pos
Jessica Dal Pos (born 20 September 1993) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Carlton Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She previously played for the Greater Western Sydney Giants from 2017 to 2021, having been one of their four priority selections prior to the 2016 AFL Women's draft. Junior and state league Her parents considered Dal Pos too small to play against the boys in under-12 football, and there was no local team for girls. She returned to football in the girls' and women's teams of the Darebin Falcons at 15, and went on to play in four Victorian Women's Football League premierships. After playing for in the first Women's AFL exhibition game in 2013, Dal Pos was delisted. Recognizing improvement in her football over the following two years, selected Dal Pos for the AFL exhibition series during 2015. Prior to the 2016 AFL Women's draft, Dal Pos approached Greater Western Sydney, chose to move to Sydney from Melbourne, and negotiated selection as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lara Filocamo
Lara Filocamo (born 15 September 1990) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Football Club in the AFL Women's competition. Filocamo was drafted by Fremantle with their fourth selection and twenty-ninth overall in the 2016 AFL Women's draft The 2016 AFL Women's draft consisted of the various periods when the eight clubs in the AFL Women's AFL Women's (AFLW) is Australia's national semi-professional Australian rules football in Australia, Australian rules football league for w .... She made her debut in the thirty-two point loss to the at VU Whitten Oval in the opening round of the 2017 season. She played every match in her debut season to finish with seven matches. She was delisted by Fremantle at the end of the 2018 season. References External links * * 1990 births Living people Fremantle Football Club (AFLW) players Australian rules footballers from Western Australia {{AFL-bio-1990s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Docklands Stadium
Docklands Stadium, also currently known by naming rights sponsorship as Marvel Stadium, is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands area of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Construction started in October 1997 and was completed in 2000 at a cost of A$460 million. The stadium features a retractable roof and the ground level seating can be converted from oval to rectangular configuration. The stadium is primarily used for Australian rules football and was originally built as a replacement for Waverley Park. Offices at the precinct serve as the headquarters of the Australian Football League (AFL) which, since 7 October 2016, has had exclusive ownership of the venue. With a capacity for 53,000 spectators for sports, the stadium is the second-largest in Melbourne and has hosted a number of other sporting events including domestic Twenty20 cricket matches, Melbourne Victory soccer home matches, rugby league and rugby union matches as well as special eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Paxman
Karen Paxman (born 25 November 1988) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). A defender, tall, Paxman plays primarily on the half-back line with the ability to push into the midfield. She first played football at sixteen years of age and won a premiership and league best and fairest in her first year. She played in the premier division of the Victorian Women's Football League (VWFL) from the 2009 season and won three VWFL premierships with St Albans and the Darebin Falcons, in addition to a VFL Women's premiership with Darebin. Her accolades in football include three league best and fairest, state representation on four occasions, featuring in the VFL Women's team of the year and is a five-time All-Australian. Her achievements in the VWFL saw her recruited by the Western Bulldogs with the sixth selection in the 2013 women's draft ahead of that year's exhibition match. She played with the Bulldogs throughout the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellie Blackburn
Ellie Blackburn (born 25 March 1995) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Western Bulldogs in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She served as Western Bulldogs co-captain in 2019, and has served as the sole captain since the 2020 season. Blackburn is the Western Bulldogs games record holder with 58 games. Blackburn was drafted by the Bulldogs in 2016 as a marquee signing prior to the inaugural AFL Women's season, and is a three-time AFL Women's All-Australian and dual Western Bulldogs best and fairest. In 2017, she was the inaugural Western Bulldogs leading goalkicker, and in 2018, she captained the Bulldogs to their first AFL Women's premiership in the absence of suspended captain Katie Brennan. Blackburn was also voted as the AFL Players Association (AFLPA) AFLW best captain in 2021. Early life Blackburn began playing competitive football in the under-9s division for the Beaconsfield Junior Football Club. 2011 saw her named player of the carnival at the national und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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