One more honour to Crow about
ADELAIDE premiership cocaptain Erin Phillips capped her outstanding AFLW season with the best and fairest award last night.
The Olympic basketball silver medallist won the women’s equivalent of the Brownlow Medal in the inaugural AFLW season.
Phillips had an unbeatable three-vote lead before the last of the seven rounds and finished on 14, four ahead of Melbourne’s Karen Paxman and Ellie Blackburn from the Western Bulldogs.
The vote count was the centrepiece of the AFLW awards night, a black-tie function in Melbourne.
The Crows utility has won a string of awards – on Saturday Phillips was voted best afield as Adelaide beat Brisbane in the grand final on the Gold Coast.
Her best and fairest award came a day after she took out the AFL Players Association most valuable player honour.
Phillips also won goal of the year.
“I’m unbelievably honoured – when I first ran out, the first game, I was just in awe of how much there is in the competition,” she said, also paying tribute to her teammates.