GAMES

2020: 7
Career: 16

GOALS

2020: 3
Career: 10

BY THE NUMBERS (averages in brackets)

Kicks: 88 (12.6) Handballs: 61 (8.7) Disposals: 149 (21.3) Marks: 19 (2.7) Tackles: 21 (3.0)

OVERVIEW

Having earned her stripes as a star of the future in 2019, the question coming into 2020 for Madison Prespakis was clear.

‘Can she deal with the extra attention?’

Yes. Unequivocally yes.

Not dropping below 17 disposals in her seven games, Prespakis stamped herself as one of the best players in the competition.

Come the season’s abrupt end, she was just three votes behind top spot in the AFLCA Champion Player of the Year award, was a joint-winner of the womens.afl Player of the Year and is a certainty for the All-Australian team — whenever that comes.

Ranked fourth in the competition for total disposals, Prespakis was a ball magnet and looks well-placed to back up her best-and-fairest award in her opening season.

BEST PERFORMANCE

Take a pick.

Prespakis was at her consistent best in 2020: there was the performance in the Top End, but it’s hard to look beyond her showing in Round 3.

In the Club’s third annual Pride game, Prespakis was the unanimous pick for best-on-ground against the Western Bulldogs.

As the Blues began a five-game winning run, the second-year Blue was crucial in the middle, collecting 24 disposals and giving her side some vital drive in a narrow win on enemy territory.

SEASON HIGHLIGHT

If one goal could sum up a season, it was the finish in the final quarter of Round 6.

In the clash between second and third, the Game Changers needed a spark in an engrossing clash in Alice Springs.

Willing her team to victory in the final quarter, it was Prespakis’ collect and finish which was pure proof of what everyone at Ikon Park has known for so long: she’s a match winner.

She ended up finishing the game with 23 disposals and nine coaches’ votes, while Carlton brought home four crucial points.