GWS captain Alicia Eva has handed team-mate Alyce Parker an enormous compliment, declaring she was in the league's best 10 players as a teenager.
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Parker claimed the Giants' Gabrielle Trainor Medal and All-Australian selection after just her second year and then only turned 20 last August.
"When you look at what she can do and - there's still a lot she needs to learn within a team of really good players around her - knowing how much improvement there is to come, it's kind of scary to think where she will be in five years time," Eva praised.
It's kind of scary to think where she will be in five years time.
- Alicia Eva on Alyce Parker
The skipper was then quizzed if the Holbrook product has the potential to reach AFLW's top top or three.
"Yeah, I do, the beauty of Alyce is that she just wants to keep getting better, she's really driven, she's very motivated," Eva offered.
Parker is back in familiar territory after the Giants relocated to Albury to escape COVID-19 concerns in Sydney.
Interestingly, Eva coached Parker at the NSW-ACT Rams under 18s.
"She's so strong at contests, she can win the ball at ground level and around stoppages, but also aerially she reads the flight of the ball really well and competes in the air," she said.
Fellow team-mate Tanya Hetherington says Parker is the team barometer.
"'Parks' often reflected the team's win-loss ratio, like when she racks up possessions at will, we'd win and if she was shut down, it would be harder to win," she said.
However, Hetherington, who also lives with Parker, along with team-mate Cora Staunton, says, very much tongue in cheek, she's not perfect.
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"Actually she's very messy, she'd hate us saying that," Hetherington laughed with Staunton in the background.
"Some of the girls went rock climbing and she wasn't very good at that, plus she's no good at board games."