WRFL
Caroline Springs has added to its senior women’s program bringing in Shaun Rainer as a senior assistant coach to Alex O’Shea in 2024. The club said that Rainer will bring a breadth of knowledge and experience to our girls, having a vast coaching experience at different levels. “He spent 7 years as a coaching assistant at Hoppers Crossing Football Club to their senior men, before joining our own senior men’s coaching team,” it said via social media.
AFL
Former Western Jet and Darley player Zak Butters has capped a breakout year by winning the John Cahill Medal as Port Adelaide’s 2023 AFL best and fairest player. The 23-year-old was remarkably consistent after a slow start, polling votes in all but two of the club’s 25 games. The John Cahill Medal win caps a strong season where Butters earned his first All-Australian blazer and won the AFL Coaches’ Association Champion Player of the Year award among other accolades after a move from the forward line into the midfield. “I’ve put more into myself as I ever have this year,” Butters said in his acceptance speech. “If you keep showing up, you get what you deserve, so the more you put in the more you get out of it. I like to live like that as well.”
BFL
Bacchus Marsh has added former AFL player Andrejs Everitt to the club for the 2024 Ballarat Football League season. Coming on board as a playing assistant coach, Everitt is continuing his long association with the Cobra’s new coach, Dennis Armfield. Having played at the highest level with the Western Bulldogs, Sydney Swans and Carlton Football Club, Everitt has a wealth of experience and footy knowledge to share, along with his hunger to play alongside and mentor our young senior playing list. Everitt was taken at pick 11 in the 2006 draft and played 131 games at the highest level, kicking 91 goals in his career across the three clubs.
