Morris, Selmon earn top Roosters honours

SEASON 2025 recruit Joshua Morris and star goal shooter Maddy Selmon have claimed North Ballarat’s top football and netball honours.

Morris, who joined the Roosters from SANFL club Woodville-West Torrens, put the lid on a tremendous season by winning the Stott-Eyres Best and Fairest Medal in his first season at the club.

A four-year player with AFL club Hawthorn and its VFL affiliate Box Hill from 2020-23, Morris’s experience proved invaluable to the Roosters, who blooded several debutants throughout the season as injuries took a toll. Third in last year’s best and fairest, Isaac Carey finished one spot higher this year as the runner-up.

Taj McMillan picked up the Howard Family Medal as the third placegetter.

In other senior football awards, Harvey Lewis won the Gerald Leonard Medal as the Roosters’ best first year player; Hugh Trigg was the leading goalkicker; and Sam Artz was the recipient of the coaches award.

A stellar A-grade netball season from goaler Selmon was capped with one more major award, after winning the McCartin Family Medal as best and fairest.The club award came on top of her Sally McLean Medal win as the Ballarat league’s best and fairest and selection in the BFNL team of the year.

Midcourter Brydi Hutchinson finished as runner-up, while Georgia Bodey won the coaches award.

Both players won dual awards, with Hutchinson the winner of the Gina Kickett Spirit of Netball Award and Bodey finishing runner-up to Daisy Darbin in the under-19 best and fairest in a premiership season for the young Roosters. A four-time premiership player with the Roosters, Selmon is now a two-time winner of the club best and fairest award, as well as a two-time league medallist.

Senior football

Stott-Eyres Best and Fairest Medal: Joshua Morris

George Newland Medal (runner-up): Isaac Carey

Howard Family Medal (third place): Taj McMillan

Gerald Leonard Medal (best first year player): Harvey Lewis

Tony Lockett leading goalkicker: Hugh Trigg (18 goals)

Jack Walker Medal (coaches award): Sam Artz

Reserves football

Flood Family Medal (best and fairest): Baxter Horsburgh

Bill Eddy Medal (runner-up): Jackson McInerney

Warren Kellett Medal (most consistent) Joe Darbin

Les Cox leading goalkicker: Brendan Howard (31 goals)

Harold Hurdsfield Medal (coaches award): Bond Ripper

 

Under-18.5 football

Hugh McDonald Medal (best and fairest): Cooper Beseler

Richards Family Award (runner-up): Michael Hughes

Alan ‘Arab’ Abrams Medal (most consistent): Ethan Dartnell

Peter Wilson leading goalkicker: Cooper Beseler (27 goals)

Stanley ‘Digger’ Roberts Medal for Coaches Award: Campbell Blair

A-grade netball

McCartin Family Best and Fairest Medal: Maddy Selmon

Runner-up: Brydi Hutchinson

Coaches award: Georgia Bodey

B-grade netball

Best and fairest: Bridget Casey

Runner-up: Krista Hay

Coaches award: Jarrah Bowman

 

C-grade netball

Best and fairest: Elly Polkinghorne

Runner-up: Jada Skennerton

Coaches award: Megan Downs

D-grade netball

Best and fairest: Nathalia Jenkins

Runner-up: Stephanie Teague

Coaches award: Alison Palmer

E-grade netball

Best and fairest: Sharni Plover

Runner-up: Hannah Smyth

Coaches award: Amy Fortescue

Under-19 netball

Best and fairest: Daisy Darbin

Runner-up: Georgia Bodey

Coaches award: Rose Murnane

Club awards

Dean Family Pathway Award: Andrew Ferguson

Lorna Bromley Best Club Person Award: Deb Hutchinson

Orr Family Award: Pete Kane

Polkinghorne Family Award: Taj McMillan

Gina Kickett Spirit of Netball Award: Brydi Hutchinson