Carly Wilson Junior Female Player of the Year Award
The Carly Wilson Junior player of the year award is named after Former Australian basketball player (and Vulture) Carly Wilson. Carly was born in Vermont and played her junior career for the Vermont Eagles Basketball Club in the GEBC competition, prior to their merger with the Vermont Vultures in 2002. Carly is a 2-time WNBL champion (2003/04, 204/05) and was selected in the WNBL All Star Five (2002/03). Carly first represented Australia at a junior level, competing in the 2001 FIBA Oceania
U19 Women’s Championship and was a member of the 2002 U21 national team that won gold at the FIBA Oceania U21 Women’s Championships. She was a gold Medallist at the 2006 Commonwealth
Games and again at the 2009 FIBA Oceania Women’s Championship.
The Carly Wilson Junior Female Player of the Year award seeks to recognise Vultures who are most likely to go onto play senior basketball at the elite level. The award is given to those who have achieved outstanding results in all aspects of basketball (Representative and/or state) over the course of their Junior career, with a particular focus on the previous 12 months.
Eligibility requirements to be considered for this award:
- Must have played at Vermont Vultures in either of the U15, U17 or U19 age groups for at least 1 of the 2 seasons encompassing the 12 months prior to this award being presented;
- Must have played the majority of their junior basketball at Vermont Vultures
- Must not have previously won the award
- Players who are no longer registered for Vermont Vultures in either MEBA or GEBC for the current or upcoming season, must not have registered for another club in direct competition with Vermont Vultures.
Previous winners of this award are:
| Sage Dickins | 2024 |
| Cailee Martin | 2023 |
