page_title: Daisy Pearce
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Daisy Pearce / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Melbourne captain Daisy Pearce leads her players past the Men's side during Round 3 of the 2017 AFL Women's season.
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 is widely regarded as the face of women's Australian rules football and one of its first ambassadors. In 2016, Pearce was named Football Woman of the Year for her work as the AFL's female football ambassador, an AFL talent coordinator and a graduate intern at the Melbourne Football Club. In February 2017, Melbourne unveiled the new mascot for its women's team, named Daisy in her honour. On 7 March 2017, Pearce became the first woman to be elected as a director on the board of the AFLPA; at the same meeting, the AFLPA decided to include AFLW players as full members of the association. In September 2018, the VFL Women's best and fairest award was named the Lambert–Pearce Medal to honour both Pearce and VWFL founding committee member and former president Helen Lambert; Pearce had won the inaugural award in 2016 after having previously won six Helen Lambert Medals in the VWFL.
caption: Pearce leading her teammates onto the field before a game in 2017
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