Top guns: Geelong Big V women’s award winners Kylie Morrissy and Jessica Watson.
Erin Pearson
GEELONG basketballers Kylie Morrissy and Jessica Watson have finished their respective Big V women’s basketball seasons with top honours.
Twenty-three-year-old Lady Cats championship player Morrissy said the side’s 2010 premiership win had been capped off with her individual All Star Five guard gold.
“This season was the first time the Geelong women’s team made it into the finals and to get the award too is fantastic,” she said.
“I love the competition. I’m very aggressive toward the basket and being in a team with such great depth means it’s easy to feel natural in game-play.”
Morrissy said winners were nominated throughout the season, with coaches, players and officials casting the deciding votes.
Big V announced the winners during a dinner presentation in Melbourne on Saturday night.
Morrissy said Watson’s awards were “very encouraging”.
She hoped to see the youngster playing with the Lady Cats in the near future.
Watson took home the Youth League Women Rising Star and All Star Five forward awards.
“This is so great to see because the youth league was in its first year in the competition and to have some like Jess really step up and get two awards is great for the program,” she said.
“Hopefully we can see her eventually step up into a position with the Lady Cats.”
Lady Cats’ Grantley Bernard won a Coach of the Year honour, while Shayne Bow also took out the coaching trophy in awards for the division one men’s competition.
Geelong Cats forward Jason Reardon capped off a stellar season with division one’s Most Valuable Player and All Star Five forward following the side’s narrow loss to Melbourne University.
Reardon finished the season as division one’s highest point scorer with 21.81 a game. He also led for rebounds with 14.19 a game.
