AFLW 2021 AFLW Awards for Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Excellence

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Blackburn claims second Bulldogs’ best and fairest

Ellie Blackburn has capped off an incredible 2021 season, claiming her second Club Champion award at the Western Bulldogs’ AFLW Best and Fairest count

www.westernbulldogs.com.au

Western Bulldogs AFLW Best and Fairest 2021
1st: Ellie Blackburn (72 votes)
2nd: Kirsty Lamb (63)
3rd: Isabel Huntington (51)
4th: Eleanor Brown (42)
5th: Bonnie Toogood (39)
6th: Brooke Lochland (33)
7th: Ashleigh Guest (28)
8th: Naomi Ferres (25)
9th: Katie Lynch (21)
10th: Jess Fitzgerald (19)

Blackburn joins Davey as players to win club B&Fs in both the league's inaugural and fifth season. Decent chance Kearney will also make that list next week.

 

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AFLW: Garner goes back-to-back

Jas Garner has claimed a second consecutive club best-and-fairest, topping a stellar season.

www.nmfc.com.au

North Melbourne AFLW Best and Fairest 2021
1st: Jasmine Garner (146 votes)
2nd: Emma Kearney (138 votes)
3rd: Ash Riddell (129 votes)
4th: Kaitlyn Ashmore (109 votes)
5th: Ellie Gavalas (107 votes)
6th: Jenna Bruton (106 votes)
7th: Emma King (101 votes)
8th: Aileen Gilroy (100 votes)
9th: Danielle Hardiman (95 votes)
10th: Tahlia Randall (90 votes)

A 1-2-3 repeat of 2020. Would've felt more appropriate if Garner got over the line by 1 vote this time because I think Kearney, like quite a few of the old-timers league-wide, had a career-best year.

Also, first top 5 finish at an AFLW club B&F for Kaitlyn Ashmore (though she did finish top 5 in the 2017 League B&F, perplexingly).

 

[Teen Wolf]

We will have to wait a little longer than Friday to solve the great mystery of Freo's B&F winner:

AFLW Fairest & Best Event Postponement

Fremantle's AFL Women's Fairest and Best even has been postponed until a later date

www.fremantlefc.com.au

 

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Back-to-Back Honours for Parker

Alyce Parker has won her second Gabrielle Trainor Medal in just her third season.

www.gwsgiants.com.au

GWS Giants AFLW Best and Fairest 2021
1: Alyce Parker (94 votes)
2: Rebecca Beeson (67)
3: Cora Staunton (55)
4: Elle Bennetts (50)
5: Alicia Eva (43)
6: Tanya Hetherington (?)
=7: Georgia Garnett (29)
=7: Pepa Randall (29)
9: Britt Tully (22)
10: Emily Goodsir (20)

Parker becomes the Giants' first two-time winner, the last original AFLW club to have a player achieve that (though as a comparison, albeit a rather meaningless one, GWS never had the same winner twice on the men's side until Lachie Whitfield last year).

 

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Marinoff named 2021 AFLW Club Champion

The midfielder capped off a stellar season with the Club’s highest accolade

www.afc.com.au

Adelaide AFLW Best and Fairest 2021
1st: Ebony Marinoff (265 votes)
2nd: Anne Hatchard (251)
3rd: Erin Phillips (233)
4th: Sarah Allan (227)
5th: Stevie-Lee Thompson (174)
6th: Chelsea Randall (162)
7th: Justine Mules (159)
8th: Najwa Allen (157)
9th: Marijana Rajcic (150)
10th: Ashleigh Woodland (139)

Marinoff wins her first club B&F. She has finished 3rd, 3rd, =3rd, 2nd and now 1st from 2017 onward. Sarah Allan (2nd, 8th, =5th and now 4th) and Justine Mules (10th, 5th, 3rd, and 7th) are the only other two Crows to feature in the top 10 for four-straight years.

Thompson (like Ashmore, who I've drawn comparisons with in the past) managed her first top 5 finish this year. Her previous best was 8th in '17, and worth mentioning she finished 10th in 2019 when she won the league goalkicking.

2021 AFLW Best and Fairest: All the winners

All the award winners from Melbourne’s night of nights

www.melbournefc.com.au

Melbourne AFLW Best and Fairest 2021
=1st: Tyla Hanks (64 votes)
=1st: Karen Paxman (64)
3rd: Lauren Pearce (57)
4th: Kate Hore (55)
5th: Lily Mithen (47)
=6th: Eden Zanker (46)
=6th: Shelley Heath (46)
8th: Shelley Scott (45)
9th: Maddison Gay (44)
10th: Tegan Cunningham (37)

Paxman (2nd, 3rd, 1st, somehow only 2nd, and now 1st) also continues her top-3 streak at Melbourne.

A strong showing from 23-and-unders Hanks, Mithen, Zanker and Heath as expected. Equally unsurprising is that Birch, who's in the same age bracket, missed the top 10 after finishing 5th in the past 3 seasons (including in a premiership year with the Dogs).

 

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Surprised Cunningham got into 10th, but otherwise a fair reflection of performance over the year.

 

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Two on the trot: Patrikios claims top honours after sensational season

Georgia Patrikios’ scintillating season has been rewarded with her second Best & Fairest, the perfect culmination to an extremely impressive 2021 season.

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1st: Georgia Patrikios – 80 votes
2nd: Tyanna Smith – 49 votes
3rd: Cat Phillips – 39 votes
4th: Rhi Watt – 37 votes
5th: Tilly Lucas-Rodd – 34 votes
6th: Kate Shierlaw – 32 votes
7th: Hannah Priest – 30 votes
8th: Jayde Van Dyk – 26 votes
9th: Rosie Dillon – 24 votes
10th: Tarni White – 19 votes

A very dull sequel to last year's four-way tie. For those who don't recall, those four winners were Patrikios (first again this year), Dillon (9th), Vesely (nowhere, didn't play a game) and Greiser (status in question).

 

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F&B: Turbo a three-time champion!

Freo have crowned their 2021 AFLW Fairest and Best winner

www.fremantlefc.com.au

Fremantle AFLW Best & Fairest 2021
1st: Kiara Bowers (180 votes)
2nd: Stephanie Cain (140 votes)
3rd: Janelle Cuthbertson (116 votes)
4th: Gemma Houghton (115 votes)
5th: Hayley Miller (111 votes)
6th: Angelique Stannett (109 votes)
7th: Roxanne Roux (105 votes)
8th: Laura Pugh (104 votes)
9th: Ebony Antonio (102 votes)
10th: Sabreena Duffy (97 votes)

Second time Cain has picked up a top 4 finish. Can't think of a lower profile player to have managed it, and that includes a runner-up placing which Houghton is still yet to achieve (4th, 3rd and 4th in the last three years).

First time E. Antonio has missed the top 5 (4th, 1st, 5th, 2nd and now 9th).

And that closes out award season!