Dagg earned the coveted player of the year title and also the players' player honour. The midfielder netted 14 goals to easily top the scorers' list for the Panthers, who finished fourth in the COVID-shortened season.

Warners Bay's Craig Atkins, who was gained coach of the year honours on Thursday, told the Herald in August that Dagg had "taken her game to the next level" this season.

"She is a natural leader, on and off the park, and is lifting those players around her," Atkins said. "I always thought Elodie should've been scoring a whole heap more goals. We've been working on it a fair bit and it's paying off."

Dagg said her goal-scoring feats had surprised her.

"I just seem to be getting into good spots and hitting it better than I have been in previous years," she said in August.

"I'm so used to playing with strikers who you know if you play those balls through then they finish them. And I was very happy, and still am very happy, just to play those passes to set them up and then work off the ball.

"But it's been good. It pushes me to want to be that player who can do that and make those differences in games where I wasn't normally that player."

Dagg edged out Bronte Peel (Maitland), Kiarra Lewis (Adamstown) and Broadmeadow's Lucy Kell and Nadja Squires to the player of the year crown.

Peel was named the young player of the year, while Broadmeadow's Alison Logue and Adamstown's Olivia Sneddon shared the top goalkeeper award. Warners Bay were club of the year and Olympic club champions.

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