AFL Women's Rising Star

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AFL Women's Rising Star
Current: 2022 AFL Women's Rising Star
Awarded forThe best young player in the AFL Women's
Sponsored byNational Australia Bank (2017–)
CountryAustralia
First awarded2017
Currently held byTyla Hanks (Melbourne)
WebsiteNAB AFL Women's Rising Star

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 National Australia Bank (NAB) since 2017.

Eligibility and voting procedure[]

Every round, two nominations are given to standout young players who performed well during that particular round. 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.[1] Players suspended during the season may be nominated,[2] but cannot win.[3] 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.[4]

Winners[]

Year Winner Club Recruited Ref.
2017 Ebony Marinoff Adelaide 2016 AFL Women's draft, selection 7 [4]
2018 Chloe Molloy Collingwood 2017 AFL Women's draft, selection 3 [5]
2019 Madison Prespakis Carlton 2018 AFL Women's draft, selection 3 [6]
2020 Isabel Huntington Western Bulldogs 2017 AFL Women's draft, selection 1 [7]
2021 Tyla Hanks Melbourne 2018 AFL Women's draft, selection 6 [8]

Nominations[]

Nominations by club[]

Club Nominations Winners
Adelaide 6 1
Brisbane 11 0
Carlton 9 1
Collingwood 5 1
Fremantle 4 0
Geelong 4 0
Gold Coast 3 0
Greater Western Sydney 6 0
Melbourne 9 1
North Melbourne 3 0
Richmond 1 0
St Kilda 5 0
West Coast 2 0
Western Bulldogs 10 1

Updated to the end of round 3, 2022.

Most nominations in a season[]

Number Club Season Nominees
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

Achievements of winners[]

Achievement Player Rising Star Achievement
Year Club Year Club
Won the Rising Star and a premiership in the same year Ebony Marinoff 2017 Adelaide 2017 Adelaide
Won a premiership Ebony Marinoff 2017 Adelaide 2017 Adelaide
2019
Won the AFL Women's best and fairest Madison Prespakis 2019 Carlton 2020 Carlton

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Thomas, Kirralee (7 February 2018). "AFLW: Rising Star Eligibility". afc.com.au. Telstra Media. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  2. ^ Black, Sarah (5 March 2019). "Second Rising Star nominees named for Cats, Crows". womens.afl. Telstra Media. Retrieved 7 November 2019. "Scheer [is] the ... AFLW Rising Star nominee ... She has played four games this season (missing one through suspension)
  3. ^ "NAB AFL Women's Rising Star". womens.afl. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  4. ^ a b Black, Sarah (28 March 2017). "Crows teenager Ebony Marinoff named AFLW Rising Star". afl.com.au. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  5. ^ Navaratnam, Dinny (27 March 2018). "W Awards: Dogs star named League B&F". afl.com.au. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  6. ^ Navaratnam, Dinny (2 April 2019). "Five Crows, four Roos headline All Australian team". womens.afl. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  7. ^ McGowan, Marc (28 April 2020). "Star Dog bounces back from injuries to claim Rising Star award". womens.afl. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  8. ^ Black, Sarah (20 April 2021). "This rise is official: 157cm Demon Tyla Hanks is the NAB AFLW Rising Star". womens.afl. Retrieved 20 April 2021.

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