Burnside Heights’ Krissy Trang consistent season has been rewarded, with the midfielder winning the Essendon District Football League Women’s division 1 best and fairest award.
Trang dominated the vote count winning by a massive 12 votes, finishing the count on 26 votes from her 16 matches.
She finished ahead of Essendon Doutta Stars’ Neve Crowley, who ended up with 14 votes.
This is Trang’s second league best and fairest award after winning the award in premier division in 2019 and she was also runners up last season.
Trang said this year’s award was a reward for hard work.
“I think I had an outstanding year, so when I got the invite [to the awards night] I wasn’t surprised but it’s always a privilege coming here, I love it,” she said.
“I think I deserve this one more [than the first] because in my pre season, on and off the field, I worked hard.
“I tried to lose a bit of weight and my fitness has gone up and it obviously has paid off with winning the best and fairest.”
Trang said the whole team improved this year, not just herself.
“Coming down from premier division to division one I think our girls were more switched on so I think we were up and about and wanted to get back into it straight away with pre season,” she said.
“This season was a lot better than last season for us girls.”
Burnside had a great season back in division 1 however, it is bittersweet as they had one foot in the grand final, when they lost in a thrilling preliminary final against Greenvale.
Burnside were up 15 points at three quarter time, yet it wasn’t enough.
“There were opportunities that we could have had that we missed, that last 10 seconds really broke us and all of us girls were heart broken, but it’s a part of footy,” Trang said.
“It’s [motivation] definitely, next year back again, hopefully we make it to the top again and come back with a trophy.”
In the women’s division 1 team of the year, four Burnside players had the 24 player squad. Ebony Stevens was named at half back, while Kayla Ravanello was named on a half forward flank. Trang was named as a rover and Holly McGregor was named on the bench.
Alisa Magri from Greenvale won the goal kicking award with 48 majors, and Jets coach Troy Newton was named coach of the year.
