ONE WORD to describe Jess Good’s first season of AFLW?

“Unreal.”

From the WNBL, to the SANFLW to IKON Park, Good officially became a Game Changer when she was selected as a free agent by the Blues ahead of AFLW 6.0 – making her first step into a professional football environment.

Since her debut match back in Round One against Collingwood, Good has continued to hone her craft – finding particularly strong form in the back end of the season, kicking four goals in the last four rounds.

“It feels like it's gone too quickly,” Good said.

“Just when you feel like you're getting the ball rolling the season’s done.”

Under the tutelage of ruck coach Shaun Hampson and All-Australian Breann Moody, Good has made the most of the resources at her fingertips to overcome the challenges of learning a new sport in a part-time environment.

“I think the hardest part is that part-time aspect, you’re wanting to do all of the team trainings but you don't really have as much time to work on your individual craft.

“I think especially for Moods and I, it's been so great to have Shaun in to just have that 15 or 20 minutes of a training session to just work on ‘tall girl things’ because we don't often get that opportunity when we're doing a lot of ground balls.

We don't often get to work on that tapping and working on that craft so it's been quite a balance, but it's been a good one to get through.”

It wasn’t all unfamiliar scenes for Good, who was reunited with former basketball teammate Kerryn Harrington and has relished not only the opportunity to rekindle their friendship face-to-face, but experience Harrington’s on-field presence.

“Kez just thrives in leadership positions and she's just a great human so you want to do your best when you play with her.

She's had an incredible season and she leads from the front, so it's great to just see her do her thing.”

With talks of a new start-date for the upcoming AFLW season, Good’s eye has already turned to how she can improve in her second season.

“I just want to keep progressing so I can be the best footballer I can be and whatever that role is to make the team successful, is what I am aiming and striving for,” she said.

With a sense of normality beginning to return to the city she now calls home, Melbourne is slowly winning the Adelaide-local over.

“Melbourne's growing on me.

Coming down with the pandemic and everything, it's obviously a different Melbourne now. I'm excited to see things open up and getting a bit of life back into it.”