{"id":307074,"date":"2025-11-25T05:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T05:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/307074\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T05:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T05:37:10","slug":"all-australian-honour-for-cambridge-afl-north-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/307074\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Australian honour for Cambridge &#8211; AFL North Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive featured-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image002-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCambridge McCormick During the AFLW Round 12 Match, GWS GIANTS vs Port Adelaide at Henson Park, On Saturday the 1st of November, 2025. (Photo by Ryan Jones\/GWS GIANTS)<\/p>\n<p>FORMER Port Macquarie player Cambridge McCormick has earned her maiden All-Australian blazer.<\/p>\n<p>The selection in the 2025 team has capped off a stellar season for the 26 year-old.<\/p>\n<p>The GWS GIANTS defender has enjoyed a career-best season that saw her recognised for her efforts in the final team at the W Awards in Melbourne last night.<\/p>\n<p>It marks McCormick\u2019s first selection into the All-Australian team following a league-leading season in defence.<\/p>\n<p>McCormick averaged 16.6 disposals, 2.9 marks, 1.0 intercept marks, 2.8 spoils and 2.4 rebound 50s per game and led all key defenders across the entire competition for inside 50s, tackles and disposals, while also finishing second in her position for meters gained.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8870\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8870\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image001-1024x708.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"380\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-8870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cambridge McCormick During the AFLW Round 11 Match, Carlton vs GWS GIANTS at Ikon Park, On Sunday the 26th of October, 2025. (Photo by Ryan Jones\/GWS GIANTS)<\/p>\n<p>Emerging this year as one of the league\u2019s best key defenders, owing to her athleticism and versatility, McCormick has been lauded for her ability to both lockdown forwards, as with her round nine performance on Saints\u2019 star Jesse Wardlaw, as well as bring a critical weapon in transition as a rebounding defender.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the season McCormick was recognised for being a pioneer of the AFL North Coast women\u2019s competition where she won the League Best &amp; Fairest and Best Player in the Grand Final awards in both of the first two seasons that the women\u2019s competition was played in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The Women\u2019s Best &amp; Fairest Award is now known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/aflnorthcoast.com.au\/best-and-fairest-medal-named-in-honour-of-cambridge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cambridge McCormick Medal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8868\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8868\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image003-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-8868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cambridge McCormick (right) of the GWS Giants at the moment she\u2019s announced as a member of the 2025 NAB AFLW All Australian Team during the 2025 W Awards at Centrepiece on November 24, 2025 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Michael Willson\/AFL Photos)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cambridge McCormick During the AFLW Round 12 Match, GWS GIANTS vs Port Adelaide at Henson Park, On Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-307074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}