page_title: 2018 AFL Women's Rising Star
section_title: Nominations
hierarchical_section_title: 2018 AFL Women's Rising Star / Nominations
caption_attribution_description: English: Emily McGuire in the AFL Women's preseason match between the Adelaide Football Club and Fremantle Football Club on 20 January 2018 at TIO Stadium.
context_page_description: The AFL Women's Rising Star is an Australian rules football award given annually to the best young player in the AFL Women's for the year. Two eligible players are nominated each round of the home-and-away season; the players must have been under 21 at the beginning of the year and cannot have been previously nominated. Players suspended during the year cannot win. After the season's completion, an expert panel votes on the recipient.
  National Australia Bank continued its sponsorship of the award in 2018, offering $20,000 in prize money. The winner was announced at the AFLW's awards ceremony on 27 March, held at Peninsula, an event space in Docklands, Melbourne, and live-streamed on AFL.com.au. The ten members of the voting panel were Australian Football League officials Nicole Livingstone, who served as the chair, Steve Hocking, Josh Vanderloo and Grant Williams; AFL Victoria's Darren Flanigan; Tim Harrington of the AFL Players Association; St Kilda's Peta Searle; and media commentators Sharelle McMahon, Kelli Underwood and Shelley Ware.
  The winner was Chloe Molloy, a defender playing for Collingwood, who was the first recipient to poll the maximum 50 votes.
caption: Emily McGuire was Fremantle's sole nominee.
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