Compered by Gold 104.3 announcer Craig Huggins, the awards night was held in the lead up to the junior Grand Finals, with all 24 premiership cups on display ahead of Sunday’s premiership deciders.
In just its second season in the competition, Bundoora Park was awarded the NFL Junior Club of the Year. Other major award winners were Lalor Stars youngster Jasmine Fitzgerald who took out the Lew Hall Players Award, and Eltham’s Kieran Malone who claimed the Northern Knights Under-15 Rookie of the Year.
Demi-Lee Hallett was awarded the Youth Girls best and fairest in her very first season of football, meanwhile Luke Harvey claimed the Most Promising Junior Umpire, and Martin Rodger the Junior Umpire of the Year. It was one of two awards won by Martin on the night, with the young star also claiming third-place in the under-16 Red best and fairest award.
Congratulations to the following players who were adjudged by the umpires to be the best amongst their peers in 2012.
Under-13 Blue
1st – Kyle McGaw (Epping) 30 votes
2nd – Martin Sin (Yarrambat) 20 votes
3rd – Ahmad Ahmad (Northcote) 18 votes
Under-13 Red
1st – Mitchell Andrews (Mill Park) 31 votes
2nd – Daniel Horsfield (Eltham) 22 votes
3rd – Lucas Northeast (Greensborough) 16 votes
Under-13 Green
1st – Christian Pisano (Bundoora Park) 24 votes
2nd – George Panagidis (Lalor Stars) 16 votes
3rd – Kye Agosta (Diamond Creek) 10 votes
Under-14 Blue
1st – Marcus Borg (South Morang Blue) 21 votes
2nd – Harrison Reid (Northcote) 19 votes
3rd – Ty Franks (Diamond Creek) 18 votes
Under-14 Red
1st – Jacob Fahey (Montmorency) and Daniel Di Pasquale (Epping) 20 votes
2nd – Ben Paterson (Research) 15 votes
3rd – Matthew Coen (Whittlesea) and Luke Shorten (West Preston) 13 votes
Under-14 Green
1st – Peter Schiavone (Wallan) 26 votes
2nd – Mark Pavlovski (Yarrambat) and Cooper Perrin (Yarrambat) 16 votes
3rd – Grant Williams (Mernda) 11 votes
Youth Girls
1st – Demi-Lee Hallett (South Morang Maroon) 22 votes
2nd – Julia Phung (Darebin Falcons) 19 votes
3rd – Stephanie Trkulja (Montmorency) 15 votes
Under-15 Blue
1st – Jade Gresham (South Morang) 26 votes
2nd – James El Moussalli (Yarrambat) 19 votes
3rd – Jordan Sacco (Research) 18 votes
Under-15 Red
1st – Jackson Freebairn (Epping) 24 votes
2nd – Daniel Jarvis (Hurstbridge) 17 votes
3rd – Nathan Kelly (West Lalor), Andrew Sandford (West Lalor), Kyle Hedderick (Epping) 16 votes
Under-16 Blue
1st – Billy Marshall (Montmorency) 18 votes
2nd – Christian Janev (Mill Park) 16 votes
3rd – Joel Dale (Hurstbridge) and Tieren Barbera (Hurstbridge) 13 votes
Under-16 Red
1st – Samuel Switkowski (Research) 24 votes
2nd – Nicholas Mackay (Greensborough) 21 votes
3rd – Martin Rodger (Montmorency) and Clark Sloan (Whittlesea) 14 votes
Under-17 Blue
1st – Brody Waugh (South Morang) 19 votes
2nd – Jayden Brown (Eltham) 16 votes
3rd – Garrett McDonagh (West Preston) 15 votes
Under-17 Red
1st – Jungala Ellis (Keon Park) 18 votes
2nd – Oliver Parks (Diamond Creek) 11 votes
3rd – Hayden Pham (Lalor) 6 votes
Club of the Year
Bundoora Park
Lew Hall Players Award
Jasmine Fitzgerald (Lalor Stars)
Northern Knights Under-15 Rookie of the Year
Kieran Malone (Eltham)
Most Promising Umpire (Junior Division)
Luke Harvey
Umpire of the Year (Junior Division)
Martin Rodger
*Please note – full vote listings will be published later this week.
