AFL Barwon welcomes Lisa Patterson to our staff in a newly created role of Group Operations Manager.

Lisa has worked in retail banking for 15 years across numerous roles. Her most recent role has seen her working for State Government for her local member in Launceston, Tasmania for the past 5 years.  In this role Lisa has been engaged and connected with the community representing her member in different capacities within the electorate.

Within Lisa's role in politics, she has had the opportunity to engage and build relationships with many stakeholders and constituents, ensuring the member has been represented in a positive way. 

Lisa has been heavily involved with community sport across both basketball and football. Lisa has coached numerous teams across junior basketball, as well as participating as a player over the years at a high level. Lisa's extensive knowledge and passion with the sport has given her the opportunity to be a committee member of her local club and her commitment as a player, coach and volunteer has been acknowledged as a Life Member in 2021. Lisa is also a current Basketball Tasmania Board member.

Lisa has been an active volunteer in community football in Launceston with her club South Launceston Football Club where she was Vice President from 2019-2024 before relocating to Victoria. 

Lisa has already had a positive impact since starting at AFL Barwon and we look forward to her progressive involvement across the operations team in the future. 

AFL Barwon provides governance and strategy development for Football and Netball across the Barwon region. We are seeking volunteer(s) to join our team and gain valuable experience in the areas of communications and media. 

The work experience is a voluntary position and will require a minimum of 1 or 2 days per week for a period of 3-6 months, with the potential for extension.

If this sounds like a position for you, please email your resume and an example of a social media design post that highlight's your creative skills to Sean Atkinson (Commercial Partnerships & Communications Manager - AFL Barwon) via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Applications will be monitored and actioned as they are received.

The AFL Barwon Volunteer Work Experience position description can be found here.

The Geelong Advertiser Coaches Player of the Year is an award voted by each Senior coach on a 5,4,3,2,1 basis after each home and away game, acknowledging outstanding effort by an individual player in a season.

There are individual awards for the Bellarine FNL Seniors, Geelong FNL Seniors, and the Division 1 Senior Female Football competitions.

Anglesea v Queenscliff

10 Kobe Iversen-Smith (Anglesea)

6 Lachie Kidd (Queenscliff)

7 Harrison Veale (Anglesea)

3 Simon Umbers (Anglesea)

2 Will Batson (Anglesea)

1 Jarod Bacon (Anglesea)

1 Caleb Whitley (Queenscliff)

Geelong Amateur v Torquay

6 Paddy Dowling (Geelong Amateur)

5 Ben McNamara (Torquay)

5 Tom Zeitz (Geelong Amateur)

4 Weylin Doyle (Torquay)

3 Ed McCoy (Torquay)

3 Blake Sutterby (Geelong Amateur)

2 Riley Ferguson (Geelong Amateur)

1 Chase Loftus (Torquay)

1 Samuel Bain (Geelong Amateur)

Modewarre v Portarlington

7 Kelly Pickard (Portarlington)

5 Zac May (Modewarre)

5 Matthew Farrelly (Modewarre)

5 Will Thrum (Modewarre)

4 Matt McKim (Modewarre)

3 Stephen Heppel (Portarlington)

1 Braydon Poole (Portarlington)

Newcomb vs Drysdale

10 Luke Preece (Drysdale)

4 Josh Saltalamacchia (Newcomb)

4 Jack Jenkins (Drysdale)

3 Jack Duke (Newcomb)

3 James Breust (Drysdale)

2 Tom Ruggles (Drysdale)

2 Josh Taylor (Newcomb)

1 Thewin Robertson (Newcomb)

1 Finn Anscombe (Newcomb)

Barwon Heads vs Newcomb

9 Ryley Stuhldreier (Barwon Heads)

8 Cooper Ward (Barwon Heads)

4 Marley Cornell (Barwon Heads)

3 Kyle Polley (Barwon Heads)

3 Charlie Perks (Barwon Heads)

2 Jacob Talarico (Ocean Grove)

1 Jye Bartley (Barwon Heads)

 Round 4 Leaderboard

19 Riley Ferguson (Geelong Amateur)

17 Patrick Dowling (Geelong Amateur)

14 Edward Dayman (Ocean Grove)

13 Blake Sutterby (Geelong Amateur)

13 Luke Davis (Barwon Heads)

12 Teia Miles (Portarlington)

12 Patrick Hughes (Torquay)

St Joseph's Max McLachlan has gone to the outright lead of Coaches Player of the Year awards polling 7 votes in the weekends win over North Shore.