Football
5 October, 2025
Petering prevails in Burras' best and fairest
Kade Petering has claimed the AV McIntyre Medal for the best and fairest footballer at Minyip Murtoa Football and Netball Club.
Luke Fisher has finished runner-up and in doing so earned the Ken 'Dasha' Milgate Memorial Award.
Petering, who returned to the club last season after a couple of years with Bell Park in the Barwon Football Netball League, was the best player in 10 of his 16 games with the Burras this year, according to PlayHQ.
Depsite his time away from the club, it's clear chatting to Petering that his heart is with the Burras through and through with his 'club first' mentality.
Petering went into the season with the aim of having some form of impact in games and says he feels like he did that through a consistent year.
He started the year mostly as a wing but played more in the middle as the season progressed due to injuries within the team.
"I would swap between the wing/mid/back flanks, which suited my game well," he said.
"Being an older guy now I also tried to enforce some leadership to whoever I could."
Petering said he knew he would be in the mix for the award as he hadn't miss any games, but he had picked Ben McIntyre or Luke Fisher to win.
"They both had extremely good years and one of them probably should’ve won it," he said.
"Dusty Cross had a great year also which went underappreciated by the league, and we are unlucky that Liam Kidd and Tim McIntyre didn’t play all year as they had a huge impact."
After claiming the medal, though, Petering said he attributed the win to the work he put in during the year; constantly going to training and getting his body right week in week out, which ultimately allowed him to feel good and get a few kicks.
"Being an outside player always gets you noticed in some way as well, which helps," he said.
As for next season, Petering said if he was still in Horsham there was nowhere else he'd be but at Minyip Murtoa.
"I'm planning to still be at the Burras but it will depend on work and what I want to do there," he said.
After reflecting on his personal season, Petering said all in all it had been a great year for the club with the Burras claiming the female footy premiership.
But he said as far as highlights went, the reserves' grand final win was hard to go past.
"To come from fifth and beat a team that hadn’t lost all year was something the club will remember for a long time," he said.
"It would be up there with one of the more fulfilling wins I've seen."
On the Burras' own success in seniors, Petering said inconsistency in their performance as a team was a big challenge.
"We know we could take it to the best teams in the comp when we only lost to Ararat by a few goals and beat the Thunder," Petering said.
"Knowing our best footy was good enough was probably the most frustrating thing."
Other award winners in seniors included leading goal kicker Oscar Gawith, most consistent Ben McIntyre, most improved Nick Cushing, best first-year player Liam Kidd and recipient of the coaches' award Dusty Cross.
Awards were also presented to the following players:
- reserves' – best and fairest Broughton McIntyre, runners-up Aaron Leith, Bailey Petering and Zac Leith; leading goal kicker Seth Talbot; most determined Tom Veering; coaches' award Charlie Gawith
- female football (seniors) – best and fairest Ashlee Ison, runner-up Mikaela Turvey; most improved Sally Boyd; coaches' award Adele Reardon
- under 17s – best and fairest Finnian Delahunty, runner-up Ryder Hudson; most determined Thomas Hotker; coaches award/most improved Anthony McCurdy and Matthes Gardy
- under 14.5 girls' football – best and fairest Ruby-Jane Crisp, runner-up Eedie Rowe; incentive Sadie Arnold; coaches' award Boh Adams and Indigo Starbuck-Landwehr
- under 14s – best and fairest Ethan Maher and Harry Noonan, runners-up Charlie Coote and Navraj Dhillon; most determined Cooper Shaw; coaches' award Nate Talbot
- netball A grade – best and fairest Johanna Griffiths, runner-up Sheridan Petering; most improved Molly Fagan; incentive Lucy Brand
- B grade – best and fairest Tamira Cullinan, runner-up Laura Schuckar; most improved Amelia Leith; incentive Isabella Griffiths
- C grade – best and fairest Jorja Gray, runner-up Clare Whyte; most improved Adele Reardon; incentive Amy Leith; coaches' award Lillian McKenzie
- C reserve – best and fairest Monique Shevlin, runner-up Lyla Schultz; incentive Brodie McCredden; coaches' award Lyla Schultz
- under 17s – best and fairest Marli Arnold, runner-up Zoe Tegelhuter; incentive Shanyka Penny-Roberts; coaches' award Maddie Talbot
- under 15s – best and fairest Molly Gawith, runners-up Clare McConnell; incentive Maeve Delahunty; coaches' award Lacey Ellis
- under 13s – best and fairest Greta Smith, runners-up Leila Hudson and Sadie Arnold; incentive Pippa Wilson; coaches' award Matisse Hose.
Laura Schuckar and Liam Newell were awarded club life membership, while club people of the year went to Bruce and Renae Maher.