# 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.

## 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. Players suspended during the season may be nominated, but cannot win. 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.

## Winners

| Season | Winner | Club | Recruited |
| 2017 | Ebony Marinoff | Adelaide | 2016 AFL Women's draft, selection 7 |
| 2018 | Chloe Molloy | Collingwood | 2017 AFL Women's draft, selection 3 |
| 2019 | Madison Prespakis | Carlton | 2018 AFL Women's draft, selection 3 |
| 2020 | Isabel Huntington | Western Bulldogs | 2017 AFL Women's draft, selection 1 |
| 2021 | Tyla Hanks | Melbourne | 2018 AFL Women's draft, selection 6 |
| 2022 (S6) | Mimi Hill | Carlton | 2020 AFL Women's draft, selection 12 |
| 2022 (S7) | Hannah Ewings | Port Adelaide | 2022 AFL Women's draft, selection 3 |
| 2023 | Zarlie Goldsworthy | Greater Western Sydney | 2022 AFL Women's draft, selection 20 |
| 2024 | Matilda Scholz | Port Adelaide | 2023 under-age signing |

## 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 |
| 4 | Brisbane | 2021 | Belle Dawes, Nat Grider, Tahlia Hickie, Courtney Hodder |
| 3 | Adelaide | 2018 | Sarah Allan, Anne Hatchard, Eloise Jones |
| 3 | Carlton | 2020 | Grace Egan, Lucy McEvoy, Charlotte Wilson |
| 3 | St Kilda | 2020 | Caitlin Greiser, Georgia Patrikios, Olivia Vesely |
| 3 | Fremantle | 2022 (S6) | Dana East, Mikayla Morrison, Sarah Verrier |
| 3 | Western Bulldogs | 2022 (S6) | Elisabeth Georgostathis, Nell Morris-Dalton, Isabelle Pritchard |
| 3 | Port Adelaide | 2022 (S7) | Abbey Dowrick, Hannah Ewings, Indy Tahau |
| 3 | Sydney | 2022 (S7) | Montana Ham, Sofia Hurley, Cynthia Hamilton |
| 3 | Hawthorn | 2023 | Charlotte Baskaran, Jasmine Fleming, Lucy Wales |
| 3 | Sydney | 2023 | Ella Heads, Sofia Hurley, Ally Morphett |
| 3 | 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)