Sport
26 September, 2023
Shanahan takes the top medal
AFL Cairns 2023 Crathern medallist is Jack Shanahan (below) of Port Douglas Crocs.
The Crocs also took home men’s coach of 2023, Jarde Petrenko.
Manunda Hawks’ Jennifer Wren, 19, has won AFL Cairns’ Jo Butland medal for the women’s best and fairest.
South Cairns Cutters junior Maddie Campbell won the rising star award after playing her first season in the senior women’s competition.
Heidi Talbot, who represented Queensland twice this season, the Gold Coast Suns Academy and played for Bond University in the QAFLW reserves, won the Cairns AFLW MVP award.
Cairns Saints utility Ash Moore won the men’s rising star award.
Volunteer of the year was Mitchell Butteriss of North Cairns Tigers, women’s players’ player was Jade Ransfield of Centrals TB Bulldogs, while women’s coach of the year was Kareena White of Manunda Hawks.
The grand finals are tomorrow at Cazalys Stadium starting with Centrals TB Bulldogs versus Cairns Stingers at 10.30am followed by the development final between South Cairns Cutters and Centrals TB Bulldogs at 12.20pm.
The women’s grand final is between Cairns Saints and Manunda Hawks at 3pm while the men’s grand final is between Port Douglas Crocs and Cairns Saints at 5.15pm.
