Amaia caps off amazing season

TEENAGER Amaia Wain won a thrilling Women’s Best & Fairest vote count polling three votes in the final round to claim victory.

Wain, who doesn’t turn 17 until next week, finished just one vote ahead of Ellie Ryan from Port Macquarie and Jess Midivaine from the Northern Beaches/Nambucca Valley joint venture.

For Ryan it was the second year in a row that she finished runner-up just one vote short of a win.

With two rounds remaining, Wain was in fourth position on the leaderboard still five votes behind Ryan and Midivaine.

But Wain polled three votes against Grafton in the penultimate round before being adjudged best on ground again in the final round in a match up against Port Macquarie.

The win in the Women’s Best & Fairest count caps off an amazing season for Wain. On Sundays she plays in the Youth Girls 17s competition for Bellingen and earlier this week it was announced that she won the Nikki Wallace Medal as the best player in that age group as well.

2024 WOMEN’S BEST & FAIREST LEADERBOARD 

15- Amaia Wain (Sawtell/Toormina)

14 – Jess Midavaine (Northern Beaches/ Nambucca Valley), Ellie Ryan (Port Macquarie)

10 – Britt Hargreaves (Northern Beaches/ Nambucca Valley), Gina Cardillo (Northern Beaches/ Nambucca Valley)

6 – Phoebe Baptiste (Coffs Breakers), Tarryn Arnold (Coffs Breakers), Indy Loos (Sawtell/Toormina)

5 – Maraiyde Dougan (Coffs Breakers), April Devine (Coffs Breakers), Natalie Giri (Coffs Breakers)

PREVIOUS WOMEN’S BEST & FAIREST WINNERS

2023 – Lilli Hutchings (Byron Bay)

2022 – Lilli-yana Moody (Sawtell/Toormina) and Gina Cardillo (Northern Beaches)

2021 – Gina Cardillo (Northern Beaches)

2020 – Cassidy Ronalds (Coffs Breakers)

2019 – Cambridge McCormack (Port Macquarie)

2018 – Cambridge McCormack (Port Macquarie)