page_title: Daisy Pearce
section_title: State league and representative football
hierarchical_section_title: Daisy Pearce / State league and representative football
caption_attribution_description: English: Daisy Pearce during the 2017 VFL Women's Grand Final.
context_page_description: Daisy Pearce is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the AFL Women's. Widely regarded as the face of women's Australian rules football and one of its first ambassadors, Pearce has served as Melbourne captain since the competition's inaugural season, having also captained the club in the exhibition games staged prior to the creation of the league. She also captained Darebin in the Victorian Women's Football League and VFL Women's from 2008 to 2016.
  Since she began her state league playing career in 2005, Pearce is a ten-time premiership player, six-time Helen Lambert Medallist and five-time Darebin best and fairest winner at VWFL/VFLW level. She also represented Victoria three times at both senior and under-19 level, and was selected by Melbourne with the first selection in the inaugural national women's draft in 2013 prior to the first exhibition game.
  Pearce was drafted by Melbourne in 2016 as a marquee signing prior to the inaugural AFL Women's season, and was named the club's inaugural captain.
context_section_description: Pearce began playing with Darebin in the Victorian Women's Football League (VWFL) in 2005 at the age of 16. She was a member of the Australian team that played against Ireland in the 2006 Ladies' International Rules Series, which remains the only women's series to have been played. In June 2007, at the age of 19, Pearce was one of two VWFL representatives, alongside St Albans Spurs midfielder Shannon McFerran, who played in the annual E. J. Whitten Legends Game; Pearce played for Victoria while McFerran played for the All Stars, who won by 15 points.
  Pearce captained the Victoria under-19 team at the 2007 AFL Women's National Championships. She was named in the Victoria under-19 All-Australian team and applauded for her efforts during the week-long carnival, winning the award for joint-player of the tournament. Pearce led the team to a premiership with a 47-point win against South Australia.
  In May 2013, Pearce was selected by Melbourne with the first selection in the inaugural national women's draft to play in the first women's exhibition game; among the other Melbourne draftees were future Melbourne AFLW teammates Melissa Hickey and Bianca Jakobsson. Pearce was one of fifty women to make history in June when Melbourne's women's team took on the Western Bulldogs' women's team at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in the first of what would be several exhibition games between the two clubs, played as a curtain raiser to the men's match between the same two clubs. Pearce captained the team in each of the games from 2013 to 2016, and was the inaugural winner of the club's best female player award at the end of the 2014 season, polling five out of a possible six votes.
caption: Pearce playing for Darebin in the 2017 VFLW Grand Final
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