FOUR Melbourne players have been nominated for AFLW Players’ MVP Awards.
Daisy Pearce and Elise O’Dea have been nominated for two awards each, while Karen Paxman and Tegan Cunningham are also in the mix to win awards.
The AFLW Players’ MVP Awards are being held on Monday, March 26 at the Stokehouse in Melbourne.
MELBOURNE’S NOMINEES
MVP Award: Elise O’Dea, Daisy Pearce, Karen Paxman
Most Courageous Award: Elise O’Dea
Best First Year Player Award: Tegan Cunningham
Best Captain Award: all captains automatically nominated
LAST YEAR’S WINNERS
- MVP – Erin Phillips
- Most Courageous – Chelsea Randall
- Best Captain – Daisy Pearce
- No Best First Year in inaugural year
AWARDS VOTING PROCESS
- MVP voting is a two-stage process, beginning with each player voting for the three teammates she considers to have been the most valuable this season. Each club’s votes are then tallied to form a nomination list comprising 24 players across the eight teams.
- In the second round of voting, all players vote for their MVP on a 3, 2, 1 basis from the nominees of the seven 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.
- A similar process will decide the Most Courageous Award and Best First Year Player Award, but every captain is automatically nominated for the Best Captain Award.
