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'Every bit of this is owed to you'

Erin Phillips paid a moving tribute to her wife Tracy Gahan after taking out the AFLW's inaugural best and fairest award.

Along with co-captaining Adelaide to the premiership, Phillips also won five individual awards to cap an incredible season.

On Tuesday night she took out the league's best and fairest award - the women's equivalent of the Brownlow - to go with her best afield in Saturday's grand final win, the AFLPA most valuable player award, vice-captaincy of the All-Australian team and goal of the year.

Phillips with her gong. Image: Getty
Phillips with her gong. Image: Getty

Phillips, wife Tracy and their twin babies have become one of the great stories of the first AFLW season and the Crows star paid emotional tribute to Gahan in her medal acceptance speech.

"Every bit of this is owed to you," 31-year-old Phillips said to her wife on the stage.

"I love you and thank you so much."

Sealed with a kiss. Image: Getty
Sealed with a kiss. Image: Getty

Erin and Tracy – married in America – have recently moved back into the Phillips' family home.

Phillips's parents are helping Erin and her wife with their twins, Brooklyn and Blake.

In the next few weeks, they will return to the United States and Phillips will resume playing with WNBA team the Dallas Wings.

Phillips and Gahan. Image: Getty
Phillips and Gahan. Image: Getty

Phillips is a two-time WNBA champion, as well as being part of the Australian Opals teams that won silver at the Beijing Olympics and the 2006 world title.

Phillips will meet with Basketball Australia in the coming weeks as she weighs up the Tokyo Olympics.

She said she had not retired from the Opals, but is unsure what will come next because all her sporting energies had gone into the AFLW.

"We'll see - I was really happy to not look past this season.

"I just wanted to enjoy it, because it was an opportunity I didn't think I was going to have.

"We'll sit down and address it in a couple of weeks."

with AAP