{"id":66545,"date":"2020-04-20T14:01:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T03:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afl.draftcentral.localhost\/?p=66545"},"modified":"2021-01-12T17:12:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T07:12:07","slug":"molloy-leads-talented-22under22-aflw-side-as-patrikios-is-named-best-first-year-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/2020\/04\/20\/molloy-leads-talented-22under22-aflw-side-as-patrikios-is-named-best-first-year-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Molloy leads talented #22Under22 AFLW side as Patrikios is named Best First Year Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLLINGWOOD 2018 AFL Women&#8217;s Rising Star talent, <strong>Chloe Molloy<\/strong> has been announced as captain of the 2020 AFL Women&#8217;s #22Under22 Team which was announced this morning. The 2019 Rising Star, <strong>Madison Prespakis<\/strong> was named vice-captain in the side, one of three Blues in the team &#8211; the most represented side. Of the 14 teams, 13 are represented in the squad, with Adelaide, Brisbane, Fremantle, Gold Coast, Melbourne, St Kilda and Western Bulldogs all having two players.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their first season being cut short, it did not stop the likes of <strong>Gabby Newton<\/strong>, <strong>Georgia Patrikios<\/strong>, <strong>Roxanne Roux<\/strong> and <strong>Caitlin Greiser<\/strong> making the side off limited games. Inaugural Rising Star, <strong>Ebony Marinoff<\/strong> joined Molloy and Prespakis as other Rising Stars to earn selection. Patrikios added another accolade to her trophy cabinet today, being named Best First Year Player for 2020.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the Rising Stars, the past three number one picks were also named in the side with <strong>Isabel Huntington<\/strong>, <strong>Nina Morrison<\/strong> and Newton all making the team. Also among the squad is a raft of talented talls, with <strong>Sarah Allen<\/strong>, <strong>Eden Zanker<\/strong> and <strong>Jesse Wardlaw<\/strong> on the bench, joined by North Melbourne&#8217;s <strong>Jasmine Grierson<\/strong> and Brisbane&#8217;s <strong>Sophie Conway<\/strong> in the six-player interchange.<\/p>\n<p>There are also a number of players who have already represented two different sides in their careers, with former Western Bulldogs <strong>Monique Conti<\/strong> (Richmond) and <strong>Libby Birch<\/strong> (Melbourne), as well as former Lions-turned-Suns <strong>Lauren Bella<\/strong> and <strong>Kalinda Howarth <\/strong>all named.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the remainder of the side are a trio of second year players, <strong>Charlotte Wilson<\/strong>, <strong>Alyce Parker<\/strong> and <strong>Sabreena Duffy<\/strong>, while pocket rocket <strong>Georgia Gee<\/strong> earned a spot in the action-packed forward line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLLINGWOOD 2018 AFL Women&#8217;s Rising Star talent, Chloe Molloy has been announced as captain of the 2020 AFL Women&#8217;s #22Under22 Team which was announced this morning. The 2019 Rising Star, Madison Prespakis was named vice-captain in the side, one of three Blues in the team &#8211; the most represented side. Of the 14 teams, 13 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":66552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3115,8,137],"tags":[11550,11551,157,2598,3694,3661,141,3041,2596,3292,2103,3288,2101,3223,7175,2108,2599,3095,158,140,3326,4826,4832,1675,3003],"class_list":["post-66545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aflw","category-news","category-womens","tag-2020-aflw","tag-2020-aflw-22-under-22-team","tag-aflw","tag-alyce-parker","tag-caitlin-greiser","tag-charlotte-wilson","tag-chloe-molloy","tag-ebony-marinoff","tag-eden-zanker","tag-gabby-newton","tag-georgia-gee","tag-georgia-patrikios","tag-isabel-huntington","tag-jasmine-grierson","tag-jesse-wardlaw","tag-kalinda-howarth","tag-lauren-bella","tag-libby-birch","tag-madison-prespakis","tag-monique-conti","tag-nina-morrison","tag-roxanne-roux","tag-sabreena-duffy","tag-sarah-allen","tag-sophie-conway"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}