Natasha Griggs (Solomon, Country Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Last Sunday I attended the NTFL's 2015-16 Nichols Medal Award. It was a great evening to celebrate the achievements of all the clubs involved in the season and also to commend and honour some outstanding individual achievements. I was very honoured to be able to present Danielle Ponter from St Marys with the medal for the best under-18 female player. She was a very popular winner, as was Brodie Filo of Nightcliff, who was awarded the highly prized Nichols Medal. Brodie won the Nichols Medal in the last round of votes in a nail-biter. He was in competition with William Farrer, and Brodie won in the very last round. Congratulations to both Brodie and William on a great season. They really did do a tremendous job.

I would like to put on record my congratulations to the following players, who were recognised for their outstanding achievements throughout the year: Joel Jeffrey from Darwin Buffaloes was awarded the under-14 Gundersen Medal; Patrick Grace-Long from Tracy Village was awarded the under-14 Lew Fatt Medal; Angela Foley from the Waratahs was named the Women's Coca-Cola Medallist; Will Johnson from Banks won the Mitch Lee Medal; Jaise Coleman from Nightcliff won the Lancaster Medal; Zachary Smith from Southern Districts won the under-18 Abala Medal; the very popular Nathan Mu from Nightcliff won the under-16 Hickman Medal; Kayden Malseed, also from Nightcliff, won the under-16 Leverence Medal; Elouise Calma from Darwin Buffaloes won the under-15 youth girls Sharyn Smith Medal; Jan Wray from Waratah won the Kennards Volunteer of the Year medal; William Farrer from Southern Districts, who was one of the Nichols Medal finalists, was named ABC Player of the Year; Simon Walker was named ABC Umpire of the Year; Brodie Filo from Nightcliff, who had a great night, was named NT News-William Hill Player of the Year; Adam Sambono from Darwin Buffaloes was named the NT News Rising Star; William Farrer, from Southern Districts, kicked 108 goals and won the Dennis Dunn Leading Goal Kicker Medal; it was no surprise that the Women's Leading Goalkicker was the amazing Abbey Holmes from Waratahs, who kicked 48 goals; and Machaelia Roberts from Darwin Buffaloes was named as the Women's Rising Star. (Time expired)

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