The 20-year-old edged out playing coach Brianna Renshaw to receive the honour.

Oats has only ever been a Cat and took home a club award while in the junior ranks.

She thanked Renshaw for helping to make her A-grade transition seamless.

"I knew most of the girls and we would train with them occasionally when I was in juniors, so I had a feel for it," Oats said.

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"Every now and then I would play up when they needed me.

"The group of girls I was playing with were lovely and we had a great coach, so it was a really nice team to play for."

Hannah Kilner won the Cats' B-grade best and fairest, with Brooke Smith and Tahli Bainbridge equal runners-up.

C-grade was taken out by Pia Taylor from Emma Prescott.

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