Georgie Prespakis

Last updated

Georgie Prespakis
Georgie Prespakis S6.jpg
Prespakis playing for Geelong in 2022
Personal information
Full name Georgie Prespakis
Date of birth (2003-03-13) 13 March 2003 (age 21)
Original team(s) Essendon (VFLW)
Draft No. 2, 2021 national draft
Debut Round 1, 2022 (S6), 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
YearsClubGames (Goals)
2022 (S6)– Geelong 32 (6)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of the 2023 season.
Career highlights
Source: AustralianFootball.com

Georgie Prespakis (born 13 March 2003) is an Australian rules footballer playing for Geelong Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Prespakis was selected in the 2022 AFL Women's season 7 All-Australian team and won the Geelong best and fairest award in 2023.

Contents

Early life

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.

AFL Women's career

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 2022 season 6 against North Melbourne at Arden Street Oval, a game in which she was nominated for the 2022 AFL Women's season 6 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 2022 AFL Women's season 7, 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 2022 AFL Women's season 7, 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 2022 AFL Women's season 7 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 best and fairest awards for 2022 season 7, Prespakis finished runner-up behind three-time 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, Prespakis kicked a goal that was wrongly adjudged by the goal umpire as a behind.

Statistics

Statistics are correct to the end of the 2023 AFL Women's season. [15]
SeasonTeamNo.GamesTotalsAverages (per game) Votes
GBKHDMTGBKHDMT
2022 (S6) Geelong 41100270631336680.00.27.06.313.30.66.81
2022 (S7) Geelong 419221059119617650.20.211.710.121.81.97.215
2023 Geelong 41134718313231517930.30.514.110.224.21.37.214
Career32611358286644402260.20.311.28.920.11.37.130

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brianna Davey</span> Australian rules footballer

Brianna Iris Davey is an Australian footballer in both the Association football (soccer) and Australian rules football codes. In soccer, she was a goalkeeper for the national women's team the Matildas and played in the W-League for Melbourne Victory and Melbourne City. In 2016, she transitioned from soccer to Australian rules football, and was one of two initial marquee recruits for the Carlton Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She won the inaugural Carlton best and fairest award and was named in the 2017 AFL Women's All-Australian team. Davey served as Carlton captain from 2018 to 2019 before being traded to the Collingwood Football Club. She was appointed Collingwood co-captain alongside Steph Chiocci in 2021, and won the league best and fairest award for the 2021 season.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kate Darby</span> Australian rules footballer

Kate Darby is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). She was drafted by Carlton with the club's sixteenth selection and the one hundred and twenty sixth overall in the 2016 AFL Women's draft. She made her debut in round 2, 2017, in a match against Greater Western Sydney at Ikon Park. She was dropped from the team the following week however and would not return until the final match of the season in round 7. She was subsequently delisted at season's end.

In the AFL Women's (AFLW), the Geelong best and fairest award is awarded to the best and fairest player at the Geelong Football Club during the home-and-away season. The award has been awarded annually since the club's inaugural season in the competition in 2019, with Meg McDonald the inaugural winner of the award.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2019 AFL Women's season</span> Third season of the AFL Womens (AFLW) competition

The 2019 AFL Women's season was the third season of the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition, the highest-level senior women's Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured ten clubs and ran from 2 February to 31 March, comprising a seven-round home-and-away season followed by a two-week finals series featuring the top two clubs from each conference. Australian Football League (AFL) clubs Geelong and North Melbourne featured for the first time in 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nina Morrison</span> Australian rules footballer

Nina Morrison is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Geelong Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). A midfielder who won multiple accolades at junior level and played in the VFL Women's (VFLW) as a teenager, Morrison was the first selection in the 2018 AFL Women's draft. She received a nomination for the 2019 AFL Women's Rising Star award in round 1 of the 2019 season, her debut match.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Madison Prespakis</span> Australian rules footballer

Madison Prespakis is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Essendon Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She previously played for the Carlton Football Club from 2019 to season 6. A midfielder who won multiple accolades at junior level and played in the VFL Women's (VFLW) as a teenager, Prespakis won the 2019 AFL Women's Rising Star award in her debut season and the 2020 AFL Women's best and fairest award in her second season. She is a three-time AFL Women's All-Australian, three-time Carlton best and fairest winner and was the inaugural Essendon best and fairest winner in season 7, and is Essendon's equal games record holder with 33 games.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Olivia Purcell</span> Australian rules footballer

Olivia Purcell is an Australian rules footballer with the Melbourne Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Maighan Fogas</span> Australian rules footballer

Maighan Fogas is an Australian rules footballer who played with the Geelong Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rebecca Webster</span> Australian rules footballer

Rebecca Webster is an Australian rules footballer with the Geelong Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW).

Eleanor Brown is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Western Bulldogs in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She played many positions in her junior career in the TAC Cup Girls and VFL Women's before she was drafted by the Bulldogs with the tenth selection in the 2018 AFLW draft. Brown debuted in the opening round of the 2019 season.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tyla Hanks</span> Australian rules footballer

Tyla Hanks is an Australian rules footballer playing for Melbourne in the AFL Women's (AFLW). An inside midfielder, she played junior football in the TAC Cup Girls and VFL Women's, and competed at four AFL Women's Under 18 Championships. Hanks was recruited by Melbourne with pick 6 in the 2018 AFLW draft and debuted in the opening round of the 2019 season.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2019 Geelong Football Club women's season</span> Australian rules football club season

The 2019 season was Geelong Football Club's first in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition. Geelong joined the league as an expansion club alongside North Melbourne, having initially been denied entry into the competition's first season in 2017. Paul Hood was the club's inaugural senior coach, and Melissa Hickey was appointed club captain.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2020 AFL Women's season</span> Fourth season of the AFL Womens (AFLW) competition

The 2020 AFL Women's season was the fourth season of the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition, the highest-level senior women's Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured 14 clubs and ran from 7 February to 22 March; it was intended to comprise an eight-round home-and-away season followed by a three-week finals series featuring the top three clubs from each conference, however the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March saw the season curtailed and finally abandoned without a premiership being awarded. Australian Football League (AFL) clubs Gold Coast, Richmond, St Kilda and West Coast featured for the first time in 2020.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Amy McDonald (Australian footballer)</span> Australian rules footballer

Amy McDonald is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Geelong Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). McDonald is a three-time Geelong best and fairest winner and was named in the 2022 AFL Women's season 7 All-Australian team.

The 2022 Geelong Football Club season was the club's 158th season playing Australian rules football, with the club competing in their 123rd season in the Australian Football League (AFL). Geelong also fielded a women's team in both 2022 AFL Women's season 6 and 2022 AFL Women's season 7, and a men's and women's reserves team in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the VFL Women's (VFLW) respectively.

The 2023 Geelong Football Club season was the club's 159th season playing Australian rules football, with the club competing in their 124th season in the Australian Football League (AFL). Geelong also fielded a women's team in the 2023 AFL Women's season, and men's and women's reserves team in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the VFL Women's (VFLW) respectively.

Aishling Moloney is an Irish Australian rules footballer playing for the Geelong Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW).

References

  1. 1 2 Black, Sarah (21 October 2018). "AFLW: From Auskick to likely top-three pick". AFL.com.au. Telstra Media . Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  2. ↑ McGowan, Marc (23 October 2018). "AFLW: New Blue happy to be close to home". AFL.com.au. Telstra Media . Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  3. ↑ Black, Sarah (23 July 2021). "Younger Prespakis destined to make her own name in AFLW". womens.afl. Telstra Media . Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  4. ↑ Rhodes, Brendan (30 September 2021). "Another Prespakis win, Chargers dominate NAB League Girls' Team of the Year". afl.com.au. Telstra Media . Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  5. ↑ Black, Sarah (15 March 2022). "Leading the pack: Five Lions named in 22under22 squad". womens.afl. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  6. ↑ Beaton, Bobby (28 March 2022). "QUEENSLAND SHAPES AFLW 22UNDER22 TEAM". AFL Player's Association. AFL Players Association . Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  7. ↑ Black, Sarah (28 August 2022). "Clutch last-minute goal sees Cats snatch victory from Tigers". womens.afl. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  8. ↑ "2022 Season Seven AFLW All Australian Team". womens.afl. 22 November 2022. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  9. ↑ Giese, Susie (22 November 2022). "Three Cats Make All-Australian Team". Geelong Football Club. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  10. ↑ Smith, Martin (22 November 2022). "Lions Queen: Anderson crowned the league's best after a thrilling count". womens.afl. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  11. ↑ O'Halloran, Kate (22 November 2022). "Brisbane Lion Ally Anderson wins AFLW best and fairest, Hannah Ewings named rising star". ABC News . Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  12. ↑ Black, Sarah; Bastiani, Gemma (22 November 2022). "Guilty: Prespakis, Bannister bans upheld after long hearings". womens.afl. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  13. 1 2 "McDonald claims third consecutive AFLW best and fairest". geelongcats.com.au. 2 December 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  14. ↑ "Prespakis Crowned the Fans' MVP". geelongcats.com.au. 2 December 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  15. ↑ "Australian Football - Georgie Prespakis". Australian Football. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.