The Kevin Sheedy Medal is the award given to the
Greater Western Sydney Giants
The Greater Western Sydney Giants (officially the Greater Western Sydney Football Club and colloquially known as the GWS Giants or simply GWS) are a professional Australian rules football team based in Sydney Olympic Park, which represents the ...
player determined to have been the "
best and fairest
In Australian sport, the best and fairest award recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspensi ...
" throughout an
AFL
AFL may refer to:
Sports
* American Football League (AFL), a name shared by several separate and unrelated professional American football leagues:
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season. The voting system as of the
2017 AFL season
The 2017 AFL season was the 121st season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season feature ...
, consists of up to five coaches giving each player a ranking out of four after each match. The award is named after the club's inaugural coach,
Kevin Sheedy.
The inaugural winner of the award was one of the club's inaugural captains, Callan Ward
Callan Ward (born 10 April 1990) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously played for the Western Bulldogs from 2008 to 2011. Ward receive ...
.
Recipients
Multiple winners
References
External links
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Australian Football League awards
Greater Western Sydney Giants
Awards established in 2012
Australian rules football-related lists