Episode 1828
Daisy Pearce
Sat, 2022-May-07 01:11 UTC
Length - 3:20
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The featured article for Saturday, 7 May 2022 is Daisy Pearce.
Daisy Pearce (born 27 May 1988) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition. Often regarded as the face of women's Australian rules football, Pearce has served as Melbourne captain since the competition's inaugural season, having previously captained the club in the women's exhibition games staged prior to the 2016 creation of the league. She captained Victoria in the inaugural AFL Women's State of Origin match in 2017, where she was adjudged best afield.
Pearce began her state league playing career in 2005 with the Darebin Falcons in the Victorian Women's Football League (VWFL) in 2005, captaining the club from 2008 to 2016. She is a ten-time premiership player (seven times as captain), seven-time league best and fairest winner in the VWFL and VFL Women's (VFLW) competitions and five-time Darebin best and fairest winner. She represented Victoria at both under-19 and senior level, and was recruited by Melbourne with the first selection in the inaugural national women's draft in 2013 for the first women's exhibition game.
Pearce was announced as a marquee signing for Melbourne's AFL Women's team in 2016 for the competition's first season the following year. At AFLW level, Pearce is a three-time AFL Women's All-Australian, having been named captain in the 2017 team and vice-captain in the 2018 team. She is a three-time Melbourne best and fairest winner and a four-time AFLW Players' best captain, having won the latter in four of her five completed AFLW seasons.
Outside her playing career, Pearce became an established media personality in both television and radio. She is an expert commentator for the Seven Network and 1116 SEN's AFL coverage; she appeared on the Seven Network program AFL Game Day as a rotating panel member from 2016 until the show's cancellation in 2020 and hosted her own podcast on SEN, This Is Grit, in 2019. The VFL Women's best and fairest award, of which Pearce was the inaugural recipient in 2016, was named the Lambert–Pearce Medal partly in her honour in 2018.
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For the full current version of the article, see Daisy Pearce on Wikipedia.
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