Team of years revealed

Ashlin Brown. (Ljubica Vrankovic) 431493_09

Grand finalists Werribee Districts and Hoppers Crossing have led the way with Western Football League division 1 team of the year nominations.

The pair had four nominations each as all nine teams had players named in the team of the year.

The Tigers’ Harrison White, Dillon Viojo-Rainbow, Lachlan Rainbow and Sean Gregory have all been named in the team.

Viojo-Rainbow, Rainbow and Gregory have been named in the team for a second straight year.

The experienced Braden Ferrari, Ashlin Brown, Ryan Kitchen and Jed Anderson have been named from the Warriors.

Brown was the only Warriors player in the team of the year last year. First year coach Jared Polec has been named coach of this year’s team of the year.

His skipper is Caroline Springs’ Ryan Allan, who has been named at centre half back.

Max Tessari and Alex Paech are the other Lakers in the team

Altona’s Luke Whatman, Cooper Atchison, Point Cook’s Billy Kolyniuk, Point Cook Centrals’

Haidyn Shade and Daniel Rosenzweig, Yarraville Seddon’s Michael Selsby and Lachlan Green, Parkside’s O’Neil Moncrieff and Tom Condon and Spotswood’s Jack Charleston and Sam Cross make up the team.

The women’s team of the year was also revealed, with grand finalists Caroline Springs and Werribee Centrals having four players each named as every team was represented.

Nyomi Stowers, Jacinta Kondis, Caitlin Pretty and Dijana Vasilevska were named from the Lakers and Meghann Basto, Jessica Spall, Larissa Renaut and grand final best on ground Julia Nash were named from the Centurions.

Premiership coach Jade De La Rue was named coach of the year.

Laverton’s Magan Ristic-Keena, the Suns’ Mary Daw, Madeline Johnson, Akima Manoah, Yarraville Seddon’s Kamala Cemeljic and Rosie Ronan-Yates, North Sunshine’s Dannielle Menzies, Wyndhamvale’s Mariah Burton and Chloe Prior, Parkside’s Rita Ceravolo, Taquila Ange and Aleisha Casley, and West Footscray’s Emily Gillespie and Kathleen Gannon make up the team.

Daw was named captain.