St Kilda defender Alice Burke has tonight been named in the 2021 rebel VFL Women's Team of the Year.
The 19-year-old was selected on the half-back flank alongside fellow Southern Saints Lucy Burke (centre half-back) and Tara Bohanna (centre half-forward) following her maiden VFL Women's season.
Burke averaged 17 disposals, seven tackles and four rebound-50s across her 10 matches, which also came complete with two finals appearances and a fourth-placed finish at the Southern Saints' 2021 Best & Fairest.
After being drafted to St Kilda as a father-daughter recruit in 2020, Burke made her senior debut in Round 1 against the Western Bulldogs – the side her father, Nathan Burke, coaches – and went on to play a further three games for the year.
Burke joins fellow St Kilda players/Southern Saints graduates Olivia Vesely, Rhi Watt, Caitlin Greiser and Tilly Lucas-Rodd in being named in the VFL Women's Team of the Year.
2021 VFL Women's Team of the Year
|
B |
Victoria Blackwood (DAR) | Jasmine Ferguson (COLL) | |
|
HB |
Molly Eastman (NM) | Lucy Burke (SS) | Alice Burke (SS) |
|
C |
Airlie Runnalls (NM) | Georgia Nanscawen (ESS) (C) | Laura Gardner (GEEL) |
|
HF |
Sophie Locke (PORT) | Tara Bohanna (SS) | Alana Barba (ESS) |
|
F |
Imogen Milford (CAS) | Imogen Barnett (COLL) | |
|
R |
Liv Fuller (GEEL) | Eliza West (CAS) | Meagan Kiely (NM) |
|
INT |
Aimee Whelan (WILL) | Claudia Gunjaca (GEEL) | Caitlin Bunker (COLL) |
| Jorja Borg (CARL) | Matilda Zander (COLL) | ||
|
COACH |
Chloe McMillan (COLL) |
