CONNOR Rozee has been awarded the Peter Badcoe VC Medal for the first time after Port Adelaide’s ANZAC Round clash with West Coast.
The Badcoe Medal is voted on by journalists and media personalities covering the match and is awarded to the player who best demonstrates the ANZAC spirit and qualities of skill, courage in adversity, self-sacrifice, teamwork and fair play during the game.
Major Peter Badcoe VC served in the Vietnam War and is the last South Australian to be awarded the Victoria Cross - the military’s highest honour for bravery.
He was one of Australia's greatest war heroes, a highly-decorated soldier whose acts of bravery and courage saw him awarded the medal for three separate acts during the Vietnam conflict.
Major Badcoe died on a battlefield in Vietnam on April 7, 1967 - his last action on that day seeing him single-handedly try to stop a Vietcong machine gunner from firing on allied South Vietnamese troops.
Rozee had 32 possessions, seven marks and eight clearances to claim the win of the Peter Badcoe VC Medal with a total of 10 votes, followed by Dan Houston (9 votes) and forward Todd Marshall (5 votes).
LEADERBOARD
Connor Rozee – (10)
Dan Houston – (9)
Marshall – (5)
Finlayson – (3)
Travis Boak - (2)
Farrell - (1)
ALL THE VOTES
Garry Lyon – Fox Footy
3 – Todd Marshall
2 – Dan Houston
1 – Kane Farrell
Aaron Bryans – ABC Grandstand
3 – Dan Houston
2 – Connor Rozee
1 – Jeremy Finlayson
Tim Ginever – FIVEaa
3 – Connor Rozee
2 – Jeremy Finlayson
1 – Dan Houston
Matt Turner – the Advertiser
3 – Connor Rozee
2 – Travis Boak
1 – Todd Marshall
Dom Cassisi – Triple M
3 – Dan Houston
2 – Connor Rozee
1 – Todd Marshall
Past Winners:
2004: Josh Carr (Port Adelaide)
2005: Warren Tredrea (Port Adelaide)
2006: Brendon Lade (Port Adelaide)
2007: Chad Cornes (Port Adelaide)
2008: Kane Cornes (Port Adelaide)
2009: Lenny Hayes (St. Kilda)
2010: David Rodan (Port Adelaide)
2011: Michael Rischitelli (Gold Coast Suns)
2012: Josh Kennedy (Sydney)
2013: Hamish Hartlett (Port Adelaide)
2014: Travis Boak (Port Adelaide)
2015: Travis Boak (Port Adelaide)
2016: Joel Selwood (Geelong)
2017: Robbie Gray (Port Adelaide)
2018: Joel Selwood (Geelong)
2019: Travis Boak (Port Adelaide)
2020: *not awarded – no ANZAC Round due to COVID-19 lockdown
2021: Ollie Wines (Port Adelaide)
2022: Connor Rozee (Port Adelaide)
