Kylie Duggan and Jerron Jamerson named Darwin Basketball Championship MVPs

TRACY Village Jets stars Kylie Duggan and Jerron Jamerson were named league MVPs in the Darwin Basketball Association awards last week, following a massive regular season for the club

Kylie Duggan was awarded the Women’s MVP following a stellar 2020 Championship. Picture: Glenn Campbell

TRACY Village Jets stars Kylie Duggan and Jerron Jamerson were named league MVPs in the Darwin Basketball Association awards last week, following a massive regular season for the club.

Long time women’s captain Duggan was named the MVP following a season where she led her Jets to an undefeated regular season.

Duggan featured at the pointy end of a number of stats and finished the regular season with the leading assists (76), leading steals (75) and leading three point percentage (34.18).

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The captain was honoured to pick up the accolade and credited her team for all the hard work they had put in for her.

“It’s a big honour to have received this award and I’m super proud to have come away with it,” Duggan told the NT News.

“I’m not one for individual awards as basketball is a team game so this award goes to the team and all the help they have given me this season.

“I’ve had a pretty consistent season and I know that as long as my body is in good shape I can go out there and give a full four quarter effort.

“It’s definitely been a great year for Jets and that says a lot about our depth. We’ve had a lot of people in and out of the group and to still be successful speak to our depth.

“The juniors have also really stepped up and it really helps them grow to be in an experienced side with finals experience so the future looks bright for us.”

On the men’s side the MVP accolade went to their star import Jamerson who lifted the young side to second on the table following the regular season.

Jamerson who racked up plenty of performance of the week showings also featured highly in the season stats also gathering the True Shooter Award with the highest average points (27.88).

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Meanwhile, Freddy Webb and Sophie Palmer, both from Ansett, were awarded the under-23 youth league player of the year accolades.

And Lachlan Shipway and Tahnee De Santis, both from Essington Cannons were awarded the sportsmanship awards.

AWARD WINNERS:

MVP Men – Jerron Jamerson

MVP Women- Kylie Duggan

League Men Coach of the Year – Steve Toohey

League Women Coach of the Year – Jason Ivinson

U23 Youth League Player of the Year (Female) – Sophie Palmer

U23 Youth League Player of the Year (Male) – Freddy Webb

Sportsmanship Female – Tahnee De Santis

Sportsmanship Male – Lachlan Shipway

Men’s Division 1A MVP – Lachlan Shipway

Men’s Division 1B – Will Burton

Men’s Division 2 – Patrick Bowden

Men’s Division 3A – Will Farrer

Men’s Division 3B – Ross Vasic

Men’s Wheelchair – Lachlan Shipway

Women’s Division 1 – Ieasha Friel and T’leyah Turner

Women’s Division 2 – Heather Whitaker

Women’s Wheelchair – Annie Rose

Senior Referee of the Year (Male) – Bradley Malady

Senior Referee of the Year (Female) – Courtney McCabe

Junior Referee of the Year (Male) – Eathan Timmiss

Junior Referee of the Year (Female) – Chloe Malady