Max Holmes has become the youngest winner of Geelong’s best-and-fairest in more than 40 years after scoring a runaway win in tonight’s Carji Greeves Medal.
The speedster has proven why the Cats were keen to lock him away on a long-term deal earlier in the season, polling 164 votes to win by 44 from Zach Guthrie, whose outstanding season was reflected in tallying 120 votes.
Star forward Jeremy Cameron finished third on 118 votes, one vote ahead of vice-captain Tom Stewart in fourth.
Small forward Tyson Stengle rounded out the top five with 107 votes.
At 22 years and 35 days, Holmes is the youngest recipient of the award since David Clarke won the first of his three best-and-fairests as an 18-year-old in 1971.
In a stunningly consistent season, he polled in 22 games of the 25 he played.
Earlier in the night, AFL Rising Star recipient Ollie Dempsey was recognised as Geelong’s Best Young Player.
Retiring great Tom Hawkins was named the Carter Family Community Champion while sharing the Tom Harley Best Club Person Award with Tom Atkins.
Torquay product Paddy Hughes won the Little Vic Award as Geelong VFL’s best first-year player.
The award is named in honour of long-serving Cats volunteer Vic Fuller, who died suddenly in early 2021.
Carji Greeves Medal Voting System
After each game, the Senior and Assistant Coaches review and rate each players’ performance on a scale of 0 to 10. Votes are only polled in games where a player’s performance has been deemed of a high quality by the coaching group. All matches are counted towards their final total.
