\n Three West Coast young guns polled highly at Tuesday night\u2019s AFLPA awards night\n <\/p>\n
\n By westcoasteagles.com.au\n <\/p>\n
After a historic 2025 season for the West Coast Eagles, three young stars, Ella Roberts, Jess Rentsch and Lucia Painter all polled well at the AFL Players\u2019 Association awards on Tuesday night in Melbourne.<\/p>\n
Star midfielder Roberts finished third in the League for the MVP honours, behind winner Jasmine Garner (Kangaroos) and runner-up Ash Riddell (Kangaroos).<\/p>\n
Roberts continues to reach new heights in her career, also honoured with her second consecutive All-Australian blazer for another stellar season.<\/p>\n
Second-year Eagle Rentsch was nominated for Most Courageous Player, making a name for herself this season as a ferocious tackler with incredible power and skills around the contest.<\/p>\n
Rentsch finished third in her category, behind winner Kiara Bowers (Fremantle) and runner-up Isabel Dawes (Brisbane).<\/p>\n
Exciting youngster Painter burst onto the scene in her first season in the blue and gold, kicking three goals on debut to earn herself a Rising Star nomination in round one.<\/p>\n
Painter finished fourth in the Best First-Year Player count, behind winner Zippy Fish (Sydney), runner-up Poppy Scholz (Carlton) and third placed Havana Harris (Gold Coast).<\/p>\n
MVP voting is a two-stage process, beginning with each player voting for the three teammates they consider to have been the most valuable this season. Each club\u2019s votes are then tallied to form a\u202fnomination list, with 54 players across the 18 teams nominated for the award.<\/p>\n
In the second round of voting, all players vote for their MVP on a 3, 2, 1 basis from the nominees of the 17 other clubs. The votes are tallied and the player with the highest score wins the honour of MVP. Players cannot vote for their own teammates in stage two of the process.<\/p>\n
A similar process is followed for Best First-Year Player and Most Courageous, with every captain automatically nominated for the Best Captain Award.<\/p>\n
WINNERS AND TOP POLLING PLAYERS\u00a0<\/p>\n
AFLW\u00a0Players\u2019 Most Valuable Player, presented by KPMG\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jasmine Garner\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ashleigh Riddell\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ella Roberts\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kate Hore\u00a0<\/p>\n
Georgie\u00a0Prespakis\u00a0<\/p>\n
Most Courageous, presented by\u00a0Tackle Your Feelings\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kiara Bowers\u00a0<\/p>\n
Isabel Dawes\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jessica Rentsch\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rylie Wilcox\u00a0<\/p>\n
Eliza McNamara\u00a0<\/p>\n
Best Captain, presented by\u00a0Chartered Accountants\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jasmine Garner\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kate Hore\u00a0<\/p>\n
Abbie McKay\u00a0<\/p>\n
Breanna Koenen\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ebony Marinoff\u00a0<\/p>\n
Best First-Year Player, presented by\u00a0P3 Recovery\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zippy Fish\u00a0<\/p>\n
Poppy Scholz\u00a0<\/p>\n
Havana Harris\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lucia Painter\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ash Centra\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three West Coast young guns polled highly at Tuesday night\u2019s AFLPA awards night By westcoasteagles.com.au After a historic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-309598","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","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309598","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=309598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}