AFL Women's Rising Star

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AFL Women's Rising Star
Current: 2024 AFL Women's Rising Star
Awarded forThe best young player in the AFL Women's
Sponsored by Telstra
Country Australia
First award 2017
Currently held by Matilda Scholz (Port Adelaide)
Website AFLW Rising Star Award

The AFL Women's Rising Star award is presented annually to the best young player in the AFL Women's (AFLW) during the home-and-away season. The first award was awarded in 2017. The award has been sponsored by Telstra since 2024. [1]

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Eligibility and voting procedure

To be eligible for nomination, a player must be under 21 years of age on 1 January of that year and not have been previously nominated. [2] Players suspended during the season may be nominated, [3] but cannot win. [4] At the end of the season, each member of a voting panel, which also selects the AFL Women's All-Australian team, awards five votes, four votes, three votes, two votes and one vote to the nominated players they judge the best to fifth-best during the season respectively; the player with the highest total of votes wins. [5]

Winners

SeasonWinnerClubRecruitedRef.
2017 Ebony Marinoff Adelaide 2016 AFL Women's draft, selection 7 [5]
2018 Chloe Molloy Collingwood 2017 AFL Women's draft, selection 3 [6]
2019 Maddy Prespakis Carlton 2018 AFL Women's draft, selection 3 [7]
2020 Isabel Huntington Western Bulldogs 2017 AFL Women's draft, selection 1 [8]
2021 Tyla Hanks Melbourne 2018 AFL Women's draft, selection 6 [9]
2022 (S6) Mimi Hill Carlton 2020 AFL Women's draft, selection 12 [10]
2022 (S7) Hannah Ewings Port Adelaide 2022 AFL Women's draft, selection 3 [11]
2023 Zarlie Goldsworthy Greater Western Sydney 2022 AFL Women's draft, selection 20 [12]
2024 Matilda Scholz Port Adelaide 2023 under-age signing [13]

Nominations

Nominations by club

Updated to the end of the 2024 season.

ClubNominationsWinners
Adelaide 101
Brisbane 120
Carlton 142
Collingwood 71
Essendon 50
Fremantle 70
Geelong 60
Gold Coast 60
Greater Western Sydney 101
Hawthorn 60
Melbourne 101
North Melbourne 40
Port Adelaide 72
Richmond 20
St Kilda 60
Sydney 60
West Coast 80
Western Bulldogs 161

Most nominations in a season

NumberClubSeasonNominees
5 Western Bulldogs 2018 Libby Birch, Monique Conti, Naomi Ferres, Bonnie Toogood, Aisling Utri
4 Melbourne 2017 Deanna Berry, Jasmine Grierson, Lily Mithen, Katherine Smith
Brisbane 2021 Belle Dawes, Nat Grider, Tahlia Hickie, Courtney Hodder
3 Adelaide 2018 Sarah Allan, Anne Hatchard, Eloise Jones
Carlton 2020 Grace Egan, Lucy McEvoy, Charlotte Wilson
St Kilda 2020 Caitlin Greiser, Georgia Patrikios, Olivia Vesely
Fremantle 2022 (S6) Dana East, Mikayla Morrison, Sarah Verrier
Western Bulldogs 2022 (S6) Elisabeth Georgostathis, Nell Morris-Dalton, Isabelle Pritchard
Port Adelaide 2022 (S7) Abbey Dowrick, Hannah Ewings, Indy Tahau
Sydney 2022 (S7) Montana Ham, Sofia Hurley, Cynthia Hamilton
Hawthorn 2023 Charlotte Baskaran, Jasmine Fleming, Lucy Wales
Sydney 2023 Ella Heads, Sofia Hurley, Ally Morphett
Port Adelaide 2024 Molly Brooksby, Shineah Goody, Matilda Scholz

Achievements of winners

Won a premiership

Won the Rising Star and a premiership in the same season

Won the AFL Women's best and fairest

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Telstra new naming rights partner of AFL/AFLW Drafts, Rising Star Awards". afl.com.au. 17 June 2024. Archived from the original on 23 June 2024. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
  2. ↑ Thomas, Kirralee (7 February 2018). "AFLW: Rising Star Eligibility". afc.com.au. Telstra Media. Archived from the original on 5 November 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  3. ↑ Black, Sarah (5 March 2019). "Second Rising Star nominees named for Cats, Crows". womens.afl. Telstra Media. Archived from the original on 7 November 2019. Retrieved 7 November 2019. "Scheer [is] the ... AFLW Rising Star nominee ... She has played four games this season (missing one through suspension)
  4. ↑ "NAB AFL Women's Rising Star". womens.afl. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  5. 1 2 Black, Sarah (28 March 2017). "Crows teenager Ebony Marinoff named AFLW Rising Star". afl.com.au. Archived from the original on 25 April 2019. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  6. ↑ Navaratnam, Dinny (27 March 2018). "W Awards: Dogs star named League B&F". afl.com.au. Archived from the original on 27 March 2018. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  7. ↑ Navaratnam, Dinny (2 April 2019). "Five Crows, four Roos headline All Australian team". womens.afl. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  8. ↑ McGowan, Marc (28 April 2020). "Star Dog bounces back from injuries to claim Rising Star award". womens.afl. Archived from the original on 13 May 2020. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  9. ↑ Black, Sarah (20 April 2021). "This rise is official: 157cm Demon Tyla Hanks is the NAB AFLW Rising Star". womens.afl. Archived from the original on 20 April 2021. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  10. ↑ Bastiani, Gemma (5 April 2022). "A Rising Star on the Hill: Blues star claims prestigious award". womens.afl. Archived from the original on 5 April 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
  11. ↑ Bastiani, Gemma (22 November 2022). "Rise to power: Port midfield gun named Rising Star". womens.afl. Archived from the original on 22 November 2022. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  12. ↑ Bastiani, Gemma (22 November 2023). "Giants gun edges out young Swan to win Rising Star award". afl.com.au. Archived from the original on 27 November 2023. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  13. ↑ Kennelly, Hannah (25 November 2024). "Marinoff crowned league best and fairest in thrilling count". The Age . Retrieved 25 November 2024.
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