PORT ADELAIDE Next Generation Academy player Kai Pudney has won the 2018 McCallum-Tomkins Medal as the finest player in the SANFL Under 18s competition.
Pudney, who is part of the club’s Multicultural and Indigenous Next Generation Academy because of his Japanese heritage, plays for Woodville-West Torrens.
Originally from the Port District Football Club, Pudney was also a member of the South Australian Under 18 team which won the AFL National Championship.
In 2018, playing for the Eagles, he has played 11 games in the Under 18 Torrens Uni Cup, averaging more than 31 disposals.
The 18-year-old – who measures in at 186cm and 78kg – finished three votes clear of Norwood’s Kade Chandler and North Adelaide’s Bailey Coleman-Oakes to become just the second Eagle to win the Medal since the Under 18s competition came about in 2009.
Another Eagle, Jackson Mead, who is part of Port Adelaide’s Father-Son Academy as the son of club champion Darren Mead, finished seventh in the count.
The club congratulates Kai on his achievement.
Kai Pudney (Eagles) 23
Kade Chandler (Norwood) 20
Bailey Coleman-Oakes (North) 20
Jarrod Miller (Eagles) 17
Jordon O’Brien (Central) 13
Luke Bogle (South) 13
Jackson Mead (Eagles) 11
Daniel Sladojevic (South) 10
Ethan Moore (West) 10
Brad Potter (Glenelg) 10
Jed Spence (Norwood) 10
Will Gutsche (West) 10
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