Daisy Pearce

Daisy Pearce
Pearce in March 2017
Personal information
Date of birth	(1988-05-27) 27 May 1988 (age 28)
Original team(s)	Darebin Falcons (VWFL)
Draft	Marquee player signing 2016: Melbourne
Debut	Round 1, 2017, Melbourne vs. Brisbane, at Casey Fields
Height / weight	169 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Midfield
Club information
Current club	Melbourne
Number	6
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2017–	Melbourne	7 (1)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2017.
Career highlights
AFLW Melbourne captain: 2017– AFLW Players' Best Captain Award: 2017 All-Australian team captain: 2017 State VFL Women's premiership player: 2016 VFL Women's best and fairest: 2016 VFL Women's team of the year: 2016 8× VWFL premiership player: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015 6× Helen Lambert Medal: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 Lisa Hardeman Medal: 2005 Darebin Falcons captain: 2008– Darebin Falcons best and fairest: 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Representative Victorian captain: 2013 3× Senior Victorian representative: 2009, 2011, 2013 3× Under-19 Victorian representative: 2005, 2006, 2007

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Daisy Pearce (born 27 May 1988) is an Australian rules footballer and captain of the Melbourne Football Club in the AFL Women's competition. She also is the captain of the Darebin Falcons in the Victorian Women's Football League (VWFL). In 2007, she was named in the VWFL All-Australian team. Daisy has been hailed a legend by locals as she leads the way for female football athletes in a sport dominated by males.

Daisy Pearce was born in Bright, Victoria. Throughout her childhood, she grew up in the country and her family's love for football had great influence over her passion for the sport as well. She began playing Auskick at the age of five or six before going on to play with boys in junior footy. Her father, Daryl, was a coach for the Bright junior football team, which allowed her to begin training with the under-13 team from the age of eight. She played football alongside her older brother, Harry and they were especially competitive when it came to football. Daisy attended Bright Eltam High School from prep to year twelve. She also works as a midwife at Box Hill Hospital.

She captained Victoria's under-19 side at the 2007 AFL Women's National Championships in July 2007. The 19-year-old was named in the All-Australian team and was also applauded for her efforts during the week-long carnival with the joint-player of the tournament award. Pearce led the team to the premiership in a 47-point win against South Australia.

In June 2007, Pearce was one of two Victorian Women's Football League representatives in the E. J. Whitten Legends Game where she played against former footballers including Scott Cummings, Nick Holland, Mick Martyn and Nicky Winmar.

In May 2013, Pearce was the number one draft pick chosen by the Melbourne Football Club in the first ever women's AFL draft. Pearce was one of fifty women to make history in June when the club's women's team took on the Western Bulldogs women's team at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which was played as a curtain raiser to the men's match.