T&T's Saman­tha Wal­lace fol­lowed up be­ing vot­ed as the 2019 Sun­corp Aus­tralian Su­per Net­ball Grand Fi­nal "Most Valu­able Play­er" by be­ing vot­ed as the New South Wales Swifts club "MVP" awardee for a sec­ond straight sea­son.

The 25-year-old T&T in­ter­na­tion­al was named the QBE Most Val­ued Play­er for the 2019 sea­son, which cul­mi­nat­ed with the Swifts win­ning the Pre­mier­ship af­ter de­feat­ing the Sun­shine Coast Light­ning in Bris­bane last month.

Wal­lace scored 40 goals from 44 at­tempts as un­der­dog Swifts beat de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Sun­shine Coast Light­ning 64-47. The win made amends for two reg­u­lar-sea­son league de­feats this sea­son at the hands of the Light­ning.

With her fi­nal shoot­ing dis­play, Wal­lace pushed her sea­son tal­ly to 637 goals from 695 at­tempts for the sec­ond spot be­hind Ja­maican Jhaniele Fowler 709/753, with an­oth­er Ja­maican, Shi­mona Nel­son, in third with 637/724.

A for­mer win­ner of the “Play­er of the Year” in the Eng­lish Vi­tal­i­ty Net­ball Su­per League in 2016, Wal­lace, who will re­turn to the club for the 2020 sea­son, now has a three-year ca­reer tal­ly of 1,580 goals from 1,739 at­tempts.

The award is pre­sent­ed to the Swift who polled the great­est num­ber of votes from league-ap­point­ed high-per­for­mance se­lec­tors over the reg­u­lar sea­son. Named af­ter the club’s Prin­ci­pal Part­ner, QBE In­sur­ance, the Most Val­ued Play­er Award is the club’s high­est ac­co­lade.

This is the sec­ond club MVP award for Wal­lace, who al­so re­ceived the ac­co­lade in 2018.

NSW Swifts Gen­er­al Man­ag­er Nik­ki Hor­ton said she was de­light­ed for the To­co-born Wal­lace who shone through­out the sea­son for the NSW team.

“To see how far Sam has come since she came here and how she’s be­come one of the best – if not the best – shoot­er in the world makes us all very, very proud,” Hor­ton said.

“Every play­er that took the court for us this year has gone above and be­yond and that plat­form has al­lowed play­ers like Sam to shine in the at­tack end.

“Sam was so im­pres­sive in the Grand Fi­nal last week­end and I know she will look to help us push on again in 2020. She has done her fam­i­ly and every­one at this club proud.”

The MVP award was just one of five-hand­ed out at the club’s 2019 Gala Din­ner at Doltone House, Hyde Park, in the cen­tre of Syd­ney.

Aus­tralian Di­a­mond Paige Hadley went home with two awards af­ter be­ing vot­ed the Coach­es’ Play­er of the Year and the Mem­bers’ Play­er of the Year.

It capped off a stel­lar sea­son for the Pen­rith ju­nior who al­so played in her sec­ond World Cup in Ju­ly and re­gained her place in the Aus­tralian team af­ter sev­er­al in­jury-in­ter­rupt­ed sea­sons.

The Play­ers’ Play­er of the Year Award was shared be­tween star de­fend­er Mad­dy Turn­er and young at­tack­er So­phie Garbin, while long-stand­ing club com­mer­cial ex­ec­u­tive Jen Sil­va was named the 2019 Club Per­son of the Year.

Hor­ton con­grat­u­lat­ed all the awards win­ners.

“Every­one who has won tonight should take great sat­is­fac­tion, es­pe­cial­ly as it’s a Pre­mier­ship-win­ning year,” she said.

“In truth every­one at the club has put in a huge ef­fort, not just the win­ners but the en­tire play­ing, coach­ing, sup­port, event and ad­min staff.

“It was a year when every­one worked in uni­son and got be­hind our sim­ple mot­to: To­geth­er We Can.”