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 Telstra since 2024.^[1]

AFL Women's Rising Star
Current: 2024 AFL Women's Rising Star
Awarded for	The 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

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

Season	Winner	Club	Recruited	Ref.
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	Madison 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.

Club	Nominations	Winners
Adelaide	10	1
Brisbane	12	0
Carlton	14	2
Collingwood	7	1
Essendon	5	0
Fremantle	7	0
Geelong	6	0
Gold Coast	6	0
Greater Western Sydney	10	1
Hawthorn	6	0
Melbourne	10	1
North Melbourne	4	0
Port Adelaide	7	2
Richmond	2	0
St Kilda	6	0
Sydney	6	0
West Coast	8	0
Western Bulldogs	16	1

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
	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

• Ebony Marinoff (2017 Rising Star; 2017, 2019 and S6 premierships)
• Tyla Hanks (2021 Rising Star; S7 premiership)

Won the Rising Star and a premiership in the same season

• Ebony Marinoff (2017 Rising Star and premiership)

Won the AFL Women's best and fairest

• Ebony Marinoff (2017 Rising Star; 2024 best and fairest)
• Madison Prespakis (2019 Rising Star; 2020 best and fairest)

See also

• Sports portal
• Australia portal

• AFL Rising Star