Two of AFL Victoria’s
longest serving players, Alicia Eva and Chloe Peers, have been honoured with
the naming of a new annual medal at AFL Victoria’s Youth Girls Presentation
Night last week. Each year the Eva-Peers Medal will be awarded to the player
adjudged by players and coaches of the Victorian Under 18 team for outstanding
on and off field performances throughout selection, training and representative
duties.
AFL
Victoria deemed it to be appropriate to acknowledge the prestige associated
with this medal by naming it after two of our former Youth Girls, both of whom
displayed these traits and characteristics in abundance, and to acknowledge their
outstanding contribution during their Youth Girls playing career and beyond. Both
Peers and Eva would have been in running to be awarded this medal if they were still
young enough to play in the Youth Girls competition.
Both Eva and Peers were
players of the first ever Youth Girls competition in 2004, playing in each
season until they turned 18 in 2009 and were too old to continue playing. At
the end of 2009 they were last two players from the inaugural Youth Girls
season, having enjoyed six years of Youth Girls football. Both are now forging
respected senior football careers in the Victorian Women’s Football League.
Chloe Peers (pictured top left), a former
premiership player, played in the first three Victorian Under 18 teams, winning
Player of the Championships in 2007 in the inaugural Interstate Challenge. She
played in the South East (now DDJFL) Interleague team for three years. She has
also made a valuable contribution back to the Youth Girls competition since her
graduation to senior ranks in volunteering to be the Eastern Interleague Team Manager.
She is also a member of AFL Victoria’s Female Football Development Squad,
running clinics in schools for girls to promote our game.
Alicia Eva (pictured bottom left)was the
2009 Victorian Under 18 Captain. She is the most experienced player of her age
in Australia, with over 160 games to her name at the age of 19. She is also a
former Youth Girls Best and Fairest winner and during her six years in Youth
Girls competitions won four premierships. Alicia has also returned to make a
contribution to the Youth Girls competition. She is now East Malvern’s Coach,
was the 2010 Eastern Interleague Assistant Coach and Victorian Under 18 Assistant
Coach.
The inaugural
Eva-Peers Medal was won by four time Victorian player, Mandi Watts, and
Victorian Deputy Vice Captain, Jessica Dal Pos.
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