AFLW 2024 Awards

[Teen Wolf]

W Awards
Best & Fairest: Ebony Marinoff (Adel)
Leading Goalkicker: Aishling Moloney (Geel) & Taylor Smith (BL) - 21
Rising Star: Matilda Scholz (PA) Nominees here
Mark of the Year: Matilda Scholz (PA)
Goal of the Year: Hannah Munyard (Adel)
All-Australian team: full team here captained by Jasmine Garner (NM) and vice-captained by Ebony Marinoff (Adel)

AFL Players Awards
Most Valuable Player: Ebony Marinoff (Adel)
Best First Year Player: Shineah Goody (PA)
Most Courageous: Chelsea Randall (Adel)
Best Captain: Ebony Marinoff (Adel)

AFL Coaches
Champion Player of the Year: Ebony Marinoff (Adel)

Club Best & Fairests
Adel: Ebony Marinoff
BL: Ally Anderson
Carl: Keeley Sherar
Coll: Ruby Schleicher
Ess: Maddi Gay
Frem: Mim Strom
Geel: Nina Morrison
GC: Charlie Rowbottom
GWS: Rebecca Beeson
Haw: Eliza West
Melb: Kate Hore
NM: Jasmine Garner
PA: Matilda Scholz
Rich: Monique Conti
StK: Jaimee Lambert
Syd: Sofia Hurley
WCE: Ella Roberts
WB: Isabelle Pritchard

 

[Teen Wolf]

Goalkicking award shared as Lions sharpshooter denied late shot

Aishling Moloney and Taylor Smith finish joint winners of the 2024 AFLW leading goalkicker award

www.afl.com.au

2024 NAB AFLW, most goals​

21 - Taylor Smith, Brisbane
21 - Aishling Moloney, Geelong
17 - Caitlin Gould, Kuwarna
15 - Kate Shierlaw, North Melbourne
14 - Alice O'Loughlin, North Melbourne
14 - Danielle Ponter, Kuwarna
14 - Aileen Gilroy, Hawthorn
14 - Aine McDonagh, Hawthorn
14 - Jesse Wardlaw, Euro-Yroke

AFLW leading goalkickers​

2024 - Taylor Smith, Aishling Moloney, 21
2023 - Kate Hore, Eden Zanker, 20
2022 (S7) - Jesse Wardlaw, 19
2022 - Ash Woodland, 19
2021 - Darcy Vescio, 16
2020 - Caitlin Greiser, 10
2019 - Stevie-Lee Thompson, 13
2018 - Brooke Lochland, 12
2017 - Darcy Vescio, 14

 

[Teen Wolf]

Here is a list of the 2024 Telstra AFLW Rising Star nominees in order of nomination, accompanied by number of games played this year and per game averages for select stats.

Shineah Goody (Port Adelaide)
11 games, 12.9 disposals, 3.1 marks, 5.1 tackles, 3.0 inside 50s

Beth Schilling (West Coast)
10 games, 8.8 disposals, 7.2 intercept possessions (5th in the league)

Kaitlyn Srhoj (Greater Western Sydney)
8 games, 14.4 disposals, 4.0 tackles, 3.1 clearances

Lucy Cronin (Collingwood)
11 games, 10.9 disposals, 5.1 intercept possessions, 3.0 rebound 50s

Molly Brooksby (Port Adelaide)
11 games, 12.8 disposals, 5.5 rebound 50s (5th in the league)

Amy Gaylor (Essendon)
11 games, 12.0 disposals, 3.4 marks

Matilda Scholz (Port Adelaide)
10 games, 13.6 disposals, 21.7 hitouts, 4.1 clearances

Elaine Grigg (Western Bulldogs)
11 games, 6.5 disposals, 5.5 tackles

Mikayla Williamson (Hawthorn)
11 games, 10.2 disposals

J'Noemi Anderson (St Kilda)
9 games, 5.9 disposals, 4.0 tackles

 

[Teen Wolf]

Club Best & Fairests
Carl: Dec 5
Geel: Nov 16
Haw: Dec 5
Melb: Dec 7
NM: Dec 5

These are all the dates I'm aware of at this stage. I will update as new info comes to hand.

 

[Teen Wolf]

Some trivia about club B&Fs which may prove to be relevant.

Ebony Marinoff has won 2 at Adel (Anne Hatchard has the most for the club with 3).

Ally Anderson has won 3 at BL (Emily Bates has the most for the club with 4).

Maddy Prespakis has won 4 (3 at Carl, 1 at Ess).

Maddi Gay has finished 7th at Carl as well as 6th, 8th and 9th at Melb. Yet to finish top 5.

Aisling McCarthy has finished 4th at WB once and 2nd at WCE twice, but is yet to win one. And yes, 2nd is the highest an Irish player has finished so far (Cora Staunton, Orla O'Dwyer and Aileen Gilroy have all finished 2nd once).

Nina Morrison has finished 3rd twice and 2nd once at Geel, but is yet to win one.

Alyce Parker has won 4 at GWS.

Jasmine Garner has won 4 at NM.

Monique Conti is on a streak of 6 in a row (1 at WB, 5 at Rich).

Jaimee Lambert has won 4 (3 at Coll, 1 at StK).

 

[Teen Wolf]

Below is the complete all-time leaderboard for the League B&F. 260 players have polled 1 vote or more. I think it's correct, there might be some mistakes...

Spoiler

Total votes​	Player	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
79​	Monique Conti	2023	2022 S7
78​	Ellie Blackburn		2017	2021
73​	Ebony Marinoff			2022 S6, 2022 S7
68​	Anne Hatchard		2022 S6
67​	Karen Paxman		2017	2019
64​	Kiara Bowers	2021	2020
64​	Madison Prespakis	2020
54​	Erin Phillips	2017, 2019
54​	Jasmine Garner
53​	Ashleigh Riddell		2023
53​	Emily Bates	2022 S6
53​	Emma Kearney	2018		2020
52​	Ally Anderson	2022 S7
50​	Chloe Molloy		2018, 2023
47​	Alyce Parker			2021
44​	Brittany Bonnici
37​	Amy McDonald		2023
37​	Jaimee Lambert
37​	Jenna Bruton
36​	Brianna Davey	2021
34​	Breann Moody
30​	Dana Hooker		2018, 2019
30​	Georgie Prespakis
30​	Hayley Miller
30​	Tyla Hanks
29​	Charlie Rowbottom
26​	Alicia Eva
26​	Emma Swanson
26​	Kate Hore
25​	Daisy Pearce
24​	Bonnie Toogood
24​	Chelsea Randall
23​	Tayla Harris
23​	Tilly Lucas-Rodd
22​	Emma King
22​	Georgia Patrikios
22​	Kirsty Lamb
21​	Olivia Purcell
20​	Claudia Whitfort		2023
19​	Lauren Pearce
18​	Cathy Svarc
18​	Cora Staunton
18​	Grace Egan
17​	Nina Morrison
16​	Darcy Vescio
16​	Elise O'Dea
15​	Alison Drennan
15​	Jesse Wardlaw
15​	Kaitlyn Ashmore
15​	Steph Chiocci
14​	Gemma Houghton
14​	Katie Brennan
14​	Lily Mithen
14​	Rebecca Beeson
14​	Sabrina Frederick-Traub
13​	Eden Zanker
13​	Niamh Kelly
12​	Dakota Davidson
12​	Ellie McKenzie
12​	Jamie Stanton
12​	Jess Dal Pos
12​	Kalinda Howarth
12​	Sarah Hosking
12​	Sophie Conway
11​	Aine Tighe
11​	Courtney Gum		2018
11​	Emma Zielke
11​	Kara Antonio
11​	Ruby Schleicher
10​	Abbie McKay
10​	Brooke Lochland
10​	Eliza West
10​	Kate Shierlaw
10​	Lara Filocamo
10​	Lauren Arnell
10​	Nat Exon
9​	Chloe Scheer
9​	Ella Roberts
9​	Georgia Nanscawen
9​	Isabel Dawes
9​	Kerryn Harrington
9​	Laura Gardiner
9​	Richelle Cranston
9​	Tahlia Hickie
9​	Tegan Cunningham
8​	Aisling McCarthy
8​	Alyssa Bannan
8​	Caitlin Greiser
8​	Danielle Ponter
8​	Gabby O'Sullivan
8​	Jess Duffin
8​	Mimi Hill
8​	Tahlia Randall
7​	Ally Morphett
7​	Ashleigh Saint
7​	Georgia Garnett
7​	Hannah Ewings
7​	Kate Lutkins
7​	Mikala Cann
7​	Orla O'Dwyer
7​	Rebecca Webster
7​	Shelley Scott
6​	Abbey Dowrick
6​	Angela Foley
6​	Celine Moody
6​	Ebony Antonio
6​	Gabby Seymour
6​	Sarah Perkins
6​	Sarah Rowe
6​	Tara Bohanna
6​	Tyanna Smith
5​	Angelique Stannett
5​	Bella Lewis
5​	Courtney Wakefield
5​	Greta Bodey
5​	Jac Dupuy
5​	Kate Surman
5​	Keeley Skepper
5​	Mikayla Bowen
5​	Nicola Stevens
5​	Phoebe McWilliams
5​	Sabreena Duffy
4​	Alice Edmonds
4​	Bianca Jakobsson
4​	Caitlin Gould
4​	Courtney Cramey
4​	Daria Bannister
4​	Eleanor Brown
4​	Gabriella Pound
4​	Hannah Dunn
4​	Hannah Scott
4​	Meg McDonald
4​	Niamh McLaughlin
4​	Nicola Barr
4​	Poppy Kelly
4​	Sophie Alexander
4​	Zarlie Goldsworthy
3​	Aishling Moloney
3​	Akec Makur Chuot
3​	Aliesha Newman
3​	Alison Downie
3​	Alyssa Mifsud
3​	Ashleigh Brazill
3​	Ashleigh Richards
3​	Cecilia McIntosh
3​	Courtney Hodder
3​	Cynthia Hamilton
3​	Eilish Sheerin
3​	Ellie Hampson
3​	Eloise Jones
3​	Emma Humphries
3​	Hannah Priest
3​	Jess Wuetschner
3​	Jordyn Allen
3​	Kate Darby
3​	Kate Gillespie-Jones
3​	Maria Moloney
3​	Matilda Scholz
3​	Mim Strom
3​	Philipa Seth
3​	Rebecca Privitelli
3​	Rosie Dillon
3​	Sharni Norder
3​	Tarni Brown
3​	Tarni White
2​	Alexia Hamilton
2​	Alicia Janz
2​	Amber Ward
2​	Brittany Gibson
2​	Brooke Walker
2​	Daisy D'Arcy
2​	Darcie Davies
2​	Elisabeth Georgostathis
2​	Elle Bennetts
2​	Emelia Yassir
2​	Emma O'Driscoll
2​	Haneen Zreika
2​	Isabel Hungtington
2​	Jacqui Vogt
2​	Jasmin Stewart
2​	Jessica Duffin
2​	Julia Teakle
2​	Keeley Sherar
2​	Lauren Brazzale
2​	Leah Cutting
2​	Louise Stephenson
2​	Lucy McEvoy
2​	Maddie Shevlin
2​	Maddy Collier
2​	Madison Newman
2​	Marijana Rajcic
2​	Melissa Hickey
2​	Mia-Rae Clifford
2​	Mikayla Morrison
2​	Montana McKinnon
2​	Natalie Grider
2​	Rachelle Martin
2​	Rebecca Goring
2​	Rebecca Miller
2​	Rhiannon Metcalfe
2​	Stacey Livingstone
2​	Stephanie Cain
2​	Stephanie Wales
2​	Stevie-Lee Thompson
2​	Tahlia Fellows
2​	Tait Mackrill
2​	Tayla Bresland
2​	Taylor Smith
2​	Teah Charlton
2​	Tiarna Ernst
2​	Vivien Saad
1​	Aasta O'Connor
1​	Aileen Gilroy
1​	Airlee Runnalls
1​	Aishling Sheridan
1​	Brooke Brown
1​	Chantella Perera
1​	Chloe Dalton
1​	Dana East
1​	Deanna Berry
1​	Emily McGuire
1​	Emily Smith
1​	Erin McKinnon
1​	Gabrielle Newton
1​	Isabella Ayre
1​	Isabelle Pritchard
1​	Jess Fitzgerald
1​	Jess Good
1​	Jessica Fitzgerald
1​	Jodie Hicks
1​	Julia Crockett-Grills
1​	Kate Dempsey
1​	Katie Loynes
1​	Katie Lynch
1​	Katie-Jayne Grieve
1​	Libby Birch
1​	Lucy Single
1​	Lucy Wales
1​	Maddison Gay
1​	Madeline Keryk
1​	McKenzie Dowrick
1​	Meg Hutchins
1​	Moana Hope
1​	Montana Ham
1​	Mua Laloiofi
1​	Natalie Plane
1​	Niamh McEvoy
1​	Olivia Vesely
1​	Paige Scott
1​	Parris Laurie
1​	Rylie Wilcox
1​	Sarah Allan
1​	Sarah D'Arcy
1​	Sarah Verrier
1​	Shae Audley
1​	Simone Nalder
1​	Tanya Hetherington
1​	Tarni Evans
1​	Tess Craven
1​	Tiah Haynes

 

[Teen Wolf]

Leaderboard​

Votes	Player	Club
91	Ebony Marinoff	ADEL
79	Jasmine Garner	NMFC
77	Ashleigh Riddell	NMFC
66	Ally Anderson	BL
60	Eliza West	HAW
58	Monique Conti	RICH
58	Mim Strom	FRE
52	Charlie Rowbottom	GCFC
51	Aisling McCarthy	FRE
50	Georgia Nanscawen	ESS

 

[Teen Wolf]

Leaderboard​

Votes	Player	Club
91	Ebony Marinoff	ADEL
79	Jasmine Garner	NMFC
77	Ashleigh Riddell	NMFC
66	Ally Anderson	BL
60	Eliza West	HAW
58	Monique Conti	RICH
58	Mim Strom	FRE
52	Charlie Rowbottom	GCFC
51	Aisling McCarthy	FRE
50	Georgia Nanscawen	ESS

Past Winners​

2023	Jasmine Garner (North Melbourne)
2022 (Season 7)	Jasmine Garner (North Melbourne)
2022	Emily Bates (Brisbane Lions)
2021	Kiara Bowers (Fremantle)
2020	Jasmine Garner (North Melbourne)
2019	Erin Phillips (Adelaide Crows)
2018	Emma Kearney (Western Bulldogs) & Chelsea Randall (Adelaide Crows)

So Marinoff becomes the third Crow to win this award. Her teammate Anne Hatchard finished outside the top 20 for the first time since 2020 (from 2019 onwards she has polled 15, 17, 49, 68, 47, 38 and 38 votes again this year).

 

[cmndstab]

Marinoff's average coaches votes per game was the highest in the history of AFLW.

2024 Marinoff (8.27)
2023 Garner (8.1)
2022B Garner (7.6)
2022 Bates (7.4)
2021 Bowers (6.89)
2020 Garner (7.83)
2019 Phillips (7.29)
2018 Kearney/Randall (6.0)

 

[Teen Wolf]

 

[Teen Wolf]

Charlie Rowbottom becomes two-time SUNS AFLW Club Champion

Midfielder Charlie Rowbottom has become the first two-time Gold Coast SUNS AFLW Club Champion.

www.goldcoastfc.com.au

2024 Gold Coast AFLW Club Champion Top 10:
1. Charlie Rowbottom (313)
=2. Daisy D’Arcy (258)
=2. Niamh McLaughlin (258)
4. Meara Girvan (234)
5. Elise Barwick (227)
6. Georgia Clayden (225)
7. Jac Dupuy (223)
8. Lauren Bella (221)
9. Clara Fitzpatrick (216)
10. Charlotte Wilson (213)

And yes, 2nd is the highest an Irish player has finished so far (Cora Staunton, Orla O'Dwyer and Aileen Gilroy have all finished 2nd once).

Can add Niamh McLaughlin to that list. Gold Coast delisted two of their Irish players during the week, but they can certainly say they got one Gaelic gamble right.

Fitzpatrick has been good too, but was already proven at St Kilda. Manages her first top 10 finish since 2020.

For the second year in a row, the captain Tara Bohanna misses the top 10.

 

[The Nostradamus]

Is the all aus squad of 40 announced this week?

 

[Teen Wolf]

Yeah it's been announced on the Tuesday after wk1 finals for the past 2 seasons, and on Wednesday the season before.

A few phantom teams have Lucas-Rodd making it, which got me to strain the old brain to recall if there's been any delisted players to bounce back and achieve that before. That in turn got me thinking about the best post-delisting resurrections, and the list goes like this:

1st: Ashleigh Saint
2nd: Meg McDonald
3rd: Kate Shierlaw
4th: Tilly Lucas-Rodd
5th: Kalinda Howarth
6th: Stephanie Cain
7th: Georgia Nanscawen
8th: Rebecca Privitelli
9th: Kim Rennie (almost doesn't count)
=10th: Harriet Cordner, Phoebe Monahan, Belinda Smith

Fyi 1st, 2nd and 5th have gone on to be All-Australians post-delisting. 2nd, 3rd and 4th have gone on to win club B&Fs (wouldn't be shocked if 7th joins them this year).

 

[Air_Chester]

Yeah it's been announced on the Tuesday after wk1 finals for the past 2 seasons, and on Wednesday the season before.

A few phantom teams have Lucas-Rodd making it, which got me to strain the old brain to recall if there's been any delisted players to bounce back and achieve that before. That in turn got me thinking about the best post-delisting resurrections, and the list goes like this:

1st: Ashleigh Saint
2nd: Meg McDonald
3rd: Kate Shierlaw
4th: Tilly Lucas-Rodd
5th: Kalinda Howarth
6th: Stephanie Cain
7th: Georgia Nanscawen
8th: Rebecca Privitelli
9th: Kim Rennie (almost doesn't count)
=10th: Harriet Cordner, Phoebe Monahan, Belinda Smith

Fyi 1st, 2nd and 5th have gone on to be All-Australians post-delisting. 2nd, 3rd and 4th have gone on to win club B&Fs (wouldn't be shocked if 7th joins them this year).

I’d completely forgotten Nanscawen had played a couple of games for North in their first season.

From there she’s gone…

• Captained Essendon VFLW undefeated to a premiership
• VFLW League B&F
• 2x VFLW Club B&F
• VFLW Coaches MVP
• First Essendon AFLW signing

And very well may have an Essendon AFLW B&F to go with it in a few weeks.

Not bad for someone who didn’t play footy until 27. Was a good article about her in the Herald Sun here the other day.

 

[Teen Wolf]

None of the captains tipped either of this year's goalkicking winners. Understandable because it's very hard, though the last two picks on this list were absurd:

Who will kick the most goals in the competition?
5 - Kate Hore (Melbourne)
3 - Dakota Davidson (Brisbane Lions)
2 - Bonnie Toogood (Essendon)
1 - Eden Zanker (Melbourne)
1 - Aine Tighe (Fremantle)
1 - Jesse Wardlaw (St Kilda)
1 - Danielle Ponter (Adelaide Crows)
1 - Caitlin Gould (Adelaide)
1 - Chloe Scheer (Geelong Cats)
1 - Monique Conti (Richmond)
1 - Kellie Gibson (West Coast)

Also notable, nobody tipped Matilda Scholz to win the Rising Star. Probable explanation: they didn't realise she was eligible. But somebody did pick Emelia Yassir, who was not eligible:

Who will win the Telstra AFLW Rising Star?
4 - Shineah Goody (Port Adelaide)
2 - Kaitlyn Srhoj (GWS GIANTS)
2 - Elaine Grigg (Western Bulldogs)
1 - Sophie Peters (Brisbane Lions)
1 - Lucy Cronin (Collingwood)
1 - Emily Gough (Essendon)
1 - Lila Keck (Carlton)
1 - Laura Stone (Hawthorn)
1 - Emelia Yassir (Richmond)
1 - Charlotte Simpson (St Kilda)
1 - Jessica Rentsch (West Coast)
1 - Abby Bushby (West Coast Eagles)
1 - Kristie-Lee Weston-Turner (Western Bulldogs)

Question is whether somebody from that list will win AFLPA Best First Year Player, which hasn't gone to a teenager since 2022 S6 (Rowbottom).

The threat: 26-year-old Eilish O'Dowd, who averaged 15.3 disposals and 16.1 hitouts from 11 games for GWS. Very strong debut season. HOWEVER, clubs can only nominate one player... so the Giants might go with Srhoj, which would throw it wide open.

 

[shockmaster]

I’d completely forgotten Nanscawen had played a couple of games for North in their first season.

From there she’s gone…

• Captained Essendon VFLW undefeated to a premiership
• VFLW League B&F
• 2x VFLW Club B&F
• VFLW Coaches MVP
• First Essendon AFLW signing

And very well may have an Essendon AFLW B&F to go with it in a few weeks.

Not bad for someone who didn’t play footy until 27. Was a good article about her in the Herald Sun here the other day.

Top 10 in AFLCA award voting as well, and should make the AA 42 player squad if not the team

 

[Teen Wolf]

AA SQUAD: SIX Hawks named, Dee misses, Roo's streak over

Hawthorn's meteoric rise has been reflected in its All-Australian squad nominations

www.afl.com.au

Swap:

Koenen for Dunne
Wright for Birch
Goody for Ellenger
and probably McDonagh for M. Prespakis, despite not being like-for-like

imo.

 

[cmndstab]

Surprised to see Ponter in the squad. She's mostly had a down year, albeit she was eye-catchingly good in a couple of games. It feels like she's there based on reputation more than anything.

She's well down in every statistical category from last year. Has gone goalless six times (in twelve matches) this year and has 12 or fewer possessions nine times.

Swap:

and probably McDonagh for M. Prespakis, despite not being like-for-like

Make it Ponter for Prespakis then. At least Ponter players the stoppage midfield at times so it's somewhat like-for-like, and I'd take McDonagh this year over Ponter.

The one thing I will say in Ponter's favour is that she remains a big-game player. Nine of her 15 goals so far this year have come against top-four sides (five against Hawthorn, three and one against North).

 

[CURVE]

It's disappointing that the team that finished undefeated for the season, on top of the table, with the best attack, the best defense and with a harder draw does not have the most players in the AA squad.

 

[X_box_X]

Sherar not named is a joke.

Literally the only shining light for the Blues this year.

 

[X_box_X]

It's disappointing that the team that finished undefeated for the season, on top of the table, with the best attack, the best defense and with a harder draw does not have the most players in the AA squad.

No it's not.

 

[RobbyRoy]

Am I missing something re Goody? Has had a great first season but would have all of Parker, Sherar, Prespakis, and McNamara comfortably ahead of her. Could also throw in Beeson, Mia King and Nanscawen and possibly a few others.

No real problems with any other selections.

 

[Teen Wolf]

Am I missing something re Goody? Has had a great first season but would have all of Parker, Sherar, Prespakis, and McNamara comfortably ahead of her. Could also throw in Beeson, Mia King and Nanscawen and possibly a few others.

No real problems with any other selections.

Nanscawen did make it. But as for Goody, they're picking her as a small defender, tenuous though it may appear.

 

[Cdog71]

Does seem like the media darlings get bonus points:

 

[RobbyRoy]

Nanscawen did make it. But as for Goody, they're picking her as a small defender, tenuous though it may appear.

Ok, makes a little more sense re Goody. But now I'm confused how Nascawen is ahead of the others I named.