Although the Giants lost that clash, Beeson did enough to impress AFLW experts on the day to earn the NAB nomination.

Beeson feels humbled by the nomination, as she feels she can play even better in the Giants remaining final round clash against the Brisbane Lions at Blacktown.

“It was such a good honour, it was very unexpected to be honest,” she said.

“I didn’t actually think I killed it or anything... but it was very exciting and such an honour to get (nominated) alongside Chloe Malloy, she’s an absolute gun and killing it at the moment.

“Obviously it’s all about the team, but it is nice to get some individual recognition along the way,” Beeson said.

Beeson grew up on the Central Coast without any pathway to playing AFL at the time, so she tried her hand at other sports including soccer and cricket.

When she was 12, her family moved to Perth and that’s when she started playing AFL in the youth girls competition.

Beeson returned to Sydney and she started playing senior women’s AFL for Macquarie University during her final years at high school. 

On leaving school, she attended university at UNSW and started playing for their team and she was drafted into the AFLW from there.

Beeson, who turned 21 last week ‘will leave partying until after the AFLW season, was drafted as player number 32 in the inaugural AFLW draft from the UNSW-ES Stingrays.

She said even though she had several conversations with last year’s coach Tim Schmidt along with a ‘few people from AFLNSW’ and was confident going into the draft, she was still amazed to hear her name called out.

“That was amazing to hear my name come up and quite early on as well, that was very exciting,” she said.

Beeson’s really happy there’s now an AFL presence on the Central Coast and in the Hunter.

“It’s definitely grown in the past couple of years and that’s obviously on the back of the AFLW,” she said.

“I think participation’s doubled and there’s always new comps and new teams being established and I think it’s super exciting to see the opportunities young girls now have.

“I didn’t have that background growing up and had to double in other sports and finally found AFL.

“It’s super exciting to see the standard of competition the AFLW will be when these girls who start at four-or-five-years-old grow up and play the game their whole life and come into the AFLW”, Beeson said. 

Beeson sees her best attributes on the field as kicking and marking even though she doesn’t see herself as a big forward she modesty feels she can take a good mark. 

Another attribute is her cross country background which helps her towards the back-end of matches when others may be tiring.

As for this weekends do or die match against the Brisbane, Beeson says the team is preparing well.

The whole season, as it’s so short, is all about preparation and treating each match like a grand final.

“We prepare fully for each game and nothing really changes on the preparation front... we go out there to give our all... it’s paid off for us in the past couple of weeks, we’ve put in some really good performances and hopefully we can keep that going forward.

If the Giants execute as Beeson says, then their destiny may rest in their own hands as an AFLW grand final appearance beckons.