Rookie Me Central’s Collaborative 2022 AFL Women’s Top 50 Countdown: #6 Madison Prespakis
IN a new exciting collaborative countdown, Rookie Me Central has teamed up with other independent media organisations to bring a 2022 AFL Women’s Top 50 Countdown. Every weekday from now until December 17, a new player will be named starting from 50th down to 1st, stemming from a combined eight Top 50 submissions. Among those who submitted Top 50s include Siren Sport‘s Gemma Bastiani, Women’s Australian Rules Football (WARF) Radio‘s Peter Holden, and a combined Outer Sanctum team’s Top 50.
Today we continue our countdown with number 6, Carlton‘s Madison Prespakis.
Madison Prespakis
League/s: AFLW, Vflw
Season/s: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, S7, 2023, 2024
Games [tot]: 60
Goals [tot]: 27
Disposals [avg]: 22.1
Marks [avg]: 2.4
Tackles [avg]: 4
Cont. Poss: 10.4
Uncont. Poss: 10.2
Clearances: 4.1
Inside 50s: 2.5
Rebound 50s: 1.3
A player who needs no introduction, Madison Prespakis has been a highly touted star since even before she burst onto the AFLW scene two years ago. She was one of the most highly talked about potential draftees of her draft year. Originally drafted as pick three in the 2018 season, she made her debut in Round one.
Prespakis had a stellar debut year, picking up the Rising Star in her debut season as well as the AFLPA Best First Year Player in the same year. She took a game up even further in 2020. She did not drop below 17 disposals in any of her games and went on to win the League Best and Fairest award.
She’s also a two-time All-Australian member, having been named in the 2019 and 2020 sides. She made the 2021 40-player squad but did not make the final side.
Prespakis had yet another stellar year in 2021, racking up the stats once again. She averaged 21.1 disposals a game, which was the highest average amongst the Carlton playing group for the season. Prespakis also had the highest averages clearances per game amongst her teammates, averaging 3.8 per game.
Prespakis finished in quite a wide range of places across the various countdowns, but she still made everyone’s lists. Some had her as high as fifth, while someone else had her as low as 39th. Most placed her between fifth and seventh, which is how she finds herself finishing sixth in the countdown.
Siren Sport’s Gemma Bastiani ranked Madison Prespakis at fifth, and had this to say about the young star:
“Wet from Rising Star to AFLW Best & Fairest in the space of a year, and even in a down season, did remarkable things.”
ROOKIE ME CENTRAL’S 2022 AFL WOMEN’S TOP 50
#50 Ash Brazill (Collingwood) | ARTICLE
#49 Tayla Harris (Melbourne) | ARTICLE
#48 Courtney Hodder (Brisbane) | ARTICLE
#47 Eden Zanker (Melbourne) | ARTICLE
#46 Kirsty Lamb (Western Bulldogs) | ARTICLE
#45 Tyanna Smith (St Kilda) | ARTICLE
#44 Breanna Koenen (Brisbane) | ARTICLE
#43 Dana Hooker (West Coast) | ARTICLE
#42 Georgie Prespakis (Geelong) | ARTICLE
#41 Breann Moody (Carlton) | ARTICLE
#40 Hayley Miller (Fremantle) | ARTICLE
#39 Emma King (North Melbourne) | ARTICLE
#38 Dakota Davidson (Brisbane) | ARTICLE
#37 Meghan McDonald (Geelong) | ARTICLE
#36 Stacey Livingstone (Collingwood) | ARTICLE
#35 Daisy Pearce (Melbourne) | ARTICLE
#34 Rebecca Beeson (GWS) | ARTICLE
#33 Sarah Allan (Adelaide) | ARTICLE
#32 Kerryn Harrington (Carlton) | ARTICLE
#31 Janelle Cuthbertson (Fremantle) | ARTICLE
#30 Emily Bates (Brisbane) | ARTICLE
#29 Katie Brennan (Richmond) | ARTICLE
#28 Gemma Houghton (Fremantle) | ARTICLE
#27 Kate Hore (Melbourne) | ARTICLE
#26 Ellie McKenzie (Richmond) | ARTICLE
#25 Ruby Schleicher (Collingwood) | ARTICLE
#24 Ash Riddell (North Melbourne) | ARTICLE
#23 Ally Anderson (Brisbane) | ARTICLE
#22 Brittany Bonnici (Collingwood) | ARTICLE
#21 Darcy Vescio (Carlton) | ARTICLE
#20 Lauren Pearce (Melbourne) | ARTICLE
#19 Jaimee Lambert (Collingwood) | ARTICLE
#18 Isabel Huntington (Western Bulldogs) | ARTICLE
#17 Tyla Hanks (Melbourne) | ARTICLE
#16 Chelsea Randall (Adelaide) | ARTICLE
#15 Monique Conti (Richmond) | ARTICLE
#14 Kate Lutkins (Brisbane) | ARTICLE
#13 Georgia Patrikios (St Kilda) | ARTICLE
#12 Emma Kearney (North Melbourne) | ARTICLE
#11 Erin Phillips (Adelaide) | ARTICLE
#10 Anne Hatchard (Adelaide) | ARTICLE
#9 Chloe Molloy (Collingwood) | ARTICLE
#8 Karen Paxman (Melbourne) | ARTICLE
#7 Ebony Marinoff (Adelaide) | ARTICLE
#6 Madison Prespakis (Carlton)
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