Adelaide captain Ebony Marinoff adds MVP award to AFLW honours

Newly crowned AFLW best and fairest Ebony Marinoff has also claimed the AFL Players’ Association Most Valuable Player award, as voted by her peers.

Adelaide co-captain Marinoff, 27, won the best and fairest from North Melbourne’s Ashleigh Riddell on Monday night, then a night later pipped another Kangaroo in Jasmine Garner to the MVP award.

The award caps a near-perfect season for the three-time premiership Crow and 2017 Rising Star winner, who was also judged player of the year by AFLW coaches and earned her seventh career All-Australian selection.

The gun midfielder won the award ahead of Garner, West Coast’s Ella Roberts, Fremantle ruck Mim Strom and Riddell.

She joins former Crows skipper Erin Phillips, a two-time winner, as Crows to claim the honour.

The Adelaide skipper also won the league’s best captain award for the first time, claiming the honour ahead of Hawthorn’s Emily Bates and Melbourne’s Kate Hore.

Marinoff averaged 33 disposals and 13.5 tackles in the regular season.

Marinoff’s Adelaide teammate Chelsea Randall won her sixth most courageous player award in nine seasons.

Randall previously won the title in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022 (Season 7) and claimed this year’s title ahead of Melbourne’s Eliza McNamara.

Port Adelaide young gun Shineah Goody was named best first-year player ahead of Essendon’s Amy Gaylor.

Each club nominates three players for the MVP.

In the second round of voting, all players vote for their MVP on a 3-2-1 basis from the nominees of the 17 other clubs.

The votes are tallied and the player with the highest score wins.