Georgie Prespakis | |||
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![]() Prespakis playing for Geelong in 2022 | |||
Personal information | |||
Full name | Georgie Prespakis | ||
Date of birth | 13 March 2003 | ||
Original team(s) | Essendon (VFLW) | ||
Draft | No. 2, 2021 national draft | ||
Debut | Round 1, 2022, Geelong vs. North Melbourne, at Arden Street Oval | ||
Height | 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Club information | |||
Current club | Geelong | ||
Number | 41 | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
2022– | Geelong | 32 (6) | |
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of the 2023 season. | |||
Career highlights | |||
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Source: AustralianFootball.com |
Georgie Prepasakis (born 13 March 2003) is an Australian rules footballer playing for Geelong Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW).
Prespakis is the daughter of Damien and Jody. [1] Her mother is an Indigenous Australian from the Djadjawurrung tribe. [2] Prespakis has three siblings: twins Annalea and Madison, and Jimmy. [1] Older sister Madison currently plays for Essendon.
She played junior football with the boys in Romsey, crossing to Sunbury to play in the under-18 girls' competition. [3] Picked up by the Calder Cannons development program, she took out the competition's best and fairest in 2019. Prespakis won her second best and fairest award in 2021, scoring seven best-on-ground votes in just nine appearances for the Cannons. [4]
Prespakis finished the 2021 season playing with Essendon in the VFL Women's competition, playing five matches (including three finals), her last game coming against Geelong Cats at Windy Hill.
Geelong recruited Prespakis with their first selection and second overall in the 2021 AFL Women's draft. She made her AFL Women's debut in the opening round of the 2022 season against North Melbourne at Arden Street Oval, a game in which she was nominated for the 2022 AFL Women's Rising Star award. In March, Prespakis was included in the 40-player squad for the AFL Players Association 22under22 team, [5] and was named on the wing in the final 22under22 team. [6]
In round 1 of AFL Women's season seven, Prespakis kicked Geelong's only two goals, including one in the last minute to score a 15–11 victory over Richmond at GMHBA Stadium. [7]
At the AFL Women's awards following the conclusion of AFL Women's season seven, Prespakis was again named to the wing in the AFL Players Association 22 Under 22 team, as well as receiving her first AFL Women's All-Australian team selection. [8] [9] Prespakis was also a top-10 finisher in the AFL Women's season seven best and fairest, [10] [11] but she would have been ineligible to win the award after being suspended by the AFL Tribunal during the home-and-away season. [12]
At the Geelong Cats Best and Fairest Awards for Season 7, Georgie finished runner up behind three-times winner Amy McDonald, [13] only four points behind in her second season. She was voted the Cats Fans MVP and won a new award named the Grit award, where "Cats players voted each week on who they believed showed the most 'grit' during games, throughout acts such as tackles, smothers, intercepts, gut running and pressure acts." [13] [14]
In the first game of the 2023 season, Georgie kicked a goal that was wrongly adjudged by the goal umpire as a behind.
Season | Team | No. | Games | Totals | Averages (per game) | Votes | ||||||||||||
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G | B | K | H | D | M | T | G | B | K | H | D | M | T | |||||
2022 (S6) | Geelong | 41 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 70 | 63 | 133 | 6 | 68 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 7.0 | 6.3 | 13.3 | 0.6 | 6.8 | 1 |
2022 (S7) | Geelong | 41 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 105 | 91 | 196 | 17 | 65 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 11.7 | 10.1 | 21.8 | 1.9 | 7.2 | 15 |
2023 | Geelong | 41 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 183 | 132 | 315 | 17 | 93 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 14.1 | 10.2 | 24.2 | 1.3 | 7.2 | 14 |
Career | 32 | 6 | 11 | 358 | 286 | 644 | 40 | 226 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 11.2 | 8.9 | 20.1 | 1.3 | 7.1 | 30 |
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