ON Friday September 27 the Euroa Football Netball Club wrapped up their 2024 season with its Presentation night.

President Scott Watson welcomed all to the evening and outlined the format for the night.

A pause in proceedings at this point allowed the premiership winning A and B Grade teams and officials to be recognized by all present – A Grade breaking a 41-year drought with coach Ellie Warnock and her team saluting in fine fashion the previous Sunday.

B Grade’s premiership drought extended back to 2019 – Coaches Sarah Ternes and Kellie Davidson recognized the players in their team and the wonderful season they had, culminating in a win the previous Sunday.

With over 130 people in attendance the players, their families, supporters, members and sponsors enjoyed the evening and are already looking forward to the 2025 season. The club wishes to acknowledge the many sponsors and trophy donors that help support the individual honors across the three grades of football and five grades of netball throughout the night.

Thank you to all attended and supported the club through 2024.

The under 18 football team had their votes counted first with the results as follows:

Best and Fairest – Mitchell Walters (Donated by Life Members).

Runner Best and Fairest – Will Creevey.

David Mills Award – Mitchell Walters (Donated by Mills Family).

Most Consistent – Dublin Anderson.

Best Team Man (David Currie Memorial) – Caid Miller.

Most Improved – Walter Jackson.

Rising Star Award – Archie Wilson.

Coaches Award – Natha Hendricks.

Three of the netball grades were then counted – as mentioned previously, Euroa FNC had a very successful year on the netball court and it was great to see so many players attending the night.

The 15 and under trophies were presented by Coach Tayla Robinson (congratulations too to Tayla as she was a recipient of a nomination for Youth Coach of the Year):

Best and Fairest – Lily Asquith (Donated by Life Members).

Runners Up Best and Fairest – Ruby Fowler.

Coaches Award – Mimi Ford.

Most Improved – Macey Watson.

Demi Walker (17 and under coach) then spoke of this team’s season with awards as follows:

Joint Best and Fairest – Tess Walker and Ruby Watson (Donated by Life Members).

Runners Up Best and Fairest – Marnie Salter.

Coaches Award – Jess Perry.

Most Improved – Oakley Paul.

B Reserve had a short run down of their very successful season (beaten in a preliminary final) by Sophie Owen (Coach) and Abbie Ellis (Assistant Coach) with trophies presented to the following players:

Best and Fairest – Megan O’Bree (Donated by Life Members).

Runners Up Best and Fairest – Sienna Trotter.

Coaches Award – Keely Wright.

An excellent run-down of the Reserves football season was given by coach Linc McKernan with, as always, some entertaining comments.

Award winners in this grade were:

Best and Fairest – Craig Bamford (Donated by Life Members).

Runner Up Best and Fairest – Brad Gleeson.

Henry and Lorraine Billman Award – Craig Bamford (Donated by Life Members).

Best Team Man – James Henry.

Most Consistent – Josh Robertson.

Coaches Award – Nic Hill.

Milestone games were awarded throughout the night to netballers and footballers for 2024.

Netball Milestones (club games).

50 games: Kellie Davidson, Ruby Watson, Tess Walker, Maggie Pittock.

100 games: Molly Redfern, Sienna Trotter.

150 games: Ellie Warnock, Sarah Ternes.

200 games: Kelly Hill, Marnie Burton.

Football Milestones.

50 Senior games: Andrew Smith, Tristan Davies, Jack Frewen.

50 Reserves games: Lachie Cooke, Declan Redfern, Brad Gleeson, Mitch Penman

100 Senior games: Jayden Gleeson, Nate Trotter.

150 Senior games: Jacob Gleeson

200 Senior games: Andrew Bell, Marcus Varley.

Further club awards for season 2024 were made with acknowledgements to the many volunteers (trainers, runners, timekeepers, team managers, football/netball managers, assistant coaches, water carriers, goal umpires, gate attendants, hot dog vendors, hill bar staff, main bar manager, BBQ staff, match report authors, etc).

This section of the evening also saw the coveted Best Club-Person award for season 2024 - this went to a very well-deserving long-standing player.

This person holds the club senior football games record (currently over 390 senior games) and earlier in the evening won another Reserve grade best and fairest – of course, the 2024 best club-person is Craig Bamford.

The Basil Bruce ‘Spirit of Magpie’ award for unwavering volunteerism was awarded to Lily Meehan, the Jager family and Neale Poole.

A significant section of the evening followed with the presentation of three life memberships.

Andrew Bell and Marcus Varley both received their life memberships having played 200 senior games of football throughout season 2024.

Up next was the club’s favorite daughter Megan O’Bree who this year notched up her 376th game of netball for Euroa FNC – a remarkable achievement spanning more than 28 years.

All those present were delighted to be able to congratulate these three on their life membership awards.

The senior XVIII football awards were next.

Ryan Pendlebury gave a short run down of the 2024 season and thanked all for the opportunity to coach at the club – indeed he outlined plans already in place for a successful 2025.

Winners this year:

Best and Fairest – Jett Trotter (Donated by Life Members).

Runners Up Best and Fairest – Will Hayes.

Mick Peel Award – Will Hayes (Donated by Life Members).

Most Consistent – Andrew Bell.

Best teammate – Lachie Hill (voted by the players).

Coaches Award – Lachie Hill.

Ryley Bjorksten Rising Star Award – Nic Burke (Donated by Lauren, Justin and Jye – Lauren again spoke to those present of her late son Ryley and his love of football and Euroa FNC).

Proceedings then moved on to the premiership winning teams of B grade and A grade netball.

The B Grade premiership flag, ball and cup were presented to the club by Co-Coach Kellie Davidson (Co-Coach Sarah Ternes was an apology for the evening).

Kellie then thanked her team for their efforts throughout the season, culminating in a win on the last day of the season.

With only one loss for the year this side was very dominant and certainly deserved the team success they experienced.

B Grade:

Best and Fairest – Kelly Hill (Donated by Life Members).

Runners Up Best and Fairest – Sarah Ternes.

Coaches Award – Millie Watson.

A Grade were last to present their awards.

Coach Ellie Warnock re-capped a very successful season with the side finishing premiers – breaking a 41-year drought.

This team were runner-up in season 2023 yet added a fit Liv Morris (league leading goal-scorer) as well as dynamic mid-court player Hollie Reid to the squad for the 2024 season.

The rest, as they say, is history as Ellie and her side worked their way through 18 games in the regular season, followed up by four finals games, winning the grand final by 12 goals.

Best and Fairest – Hollie Reid (Donated by Life Members).

Runners Up Best and Fairest – Liv Morris.

Coaches Award – Mia Sudomirski.

A big thank-you to all who helped around the club in 2024 either on the committee, the oval or court or behind the scenes.

The Club doesn’t function without volunteers, and we are lucky to have some of the best in the GVL.

On that note, please mark in your calendars the AGM which is set for Monday November 25, 7pm at the Memorial Oval social rooms.

Nomination forms for the 2025 EFNC Committee are available from the office at Burton’s IGA in Euroa from October 21, 2024.