Budalic took the Rookie of the Year award in the voting for the 2002 a-league.com Awards. This marks the second year in a row that a Lynx player has been voted Rookie of the Year by a-league.com. This is the second year that we've handed these out. The awards will be presented to the team representatives by DanB himself at this year's AOM. The "Commies" are voted on by the writers of a-league.com. For more info on this year's Commies *shameless plug alert* please see this week's column by yours truly at a-league.com