The finalists of the 2024 Rugby Australia Awards have been introduced, celebrating the standout performers of the 2024 season.
Set to happen on Wednesday, the Awards will rejoice all features {of professional} Australian rugby – together with Tremendous Rugby Pacific, Tremendous Rugby Ladies’s, Wallabies, Wallaroos, Sevens and extra.
In a surprising reflection of the facility of Australia’s unfastened forwards, the John Eales medal is about to be claimed once more however a unfastened ahead, with Rob Valetini, Harry Wilson and Fraser McReight making up the finalists.
Ought to Valetini win, he’ll turn into the sixth participant to win a number of John Eales medals – and solely the third participant, after Israel Folau and Michael Hooper, to win back-to-back medals.
The ladies’s aspect of the sport will see record-setters galore, with new highest-capped Wallaroo Ash Marsters and highest-scoring Wallaroo Maya Stewart making up the finalists, with breakthrough Brumbies backrower Tabua Tuinakauvadra rounding out the highest three after a surprising breakthrough season in Tremendous Rugby Ladies’s and in gold.
No shock, Maya Stewart can also be up for attempt of the 12 months, twice – alongside sevens star Maddison Levi, Reds breakthrough star Tim Ryan, and Wallaby Filipo Daugunu.
It’s set to be a giant night time for the Sevens, with Levi seeking to win back-to-back Shawn Mackay Medals after breaking the report for many tries in a season – with 69.
The night time may also see the Tremendous Rugby and Tremendous Rugby Ladies’s Participant of the 12 months, the Rookie of the 12 months, and moreover, two new inductees into the Wallabies Corridor of Fame – with three new inductees for Australian Ladies’s Rugby Corridor of Fame.
Rob Valetini, 2023 John Eales Medalist winner and Eva Karpani, 2023 Buildcorp Wallaroos Participant of the 12 months. (Photograph by Mark Evans/Getty Photographs for Getty Photographs)
2024 RUGBY AUSTRALIA AWARDS FINALISTS
John Eales Medal
Fraser McReight
Rob Valetini
Harry Wilson
Wallaroos Participant of the 12 months
Ash Marsters
Maya Stewart
Tabua Tuinakauvadra
Shawn Mackay Medal
Males’s
Ben Dowling
Nathan Lawson
Dietrich Roache
Ladies’s
Madison Ashby
Madison Levi
Religion Nathan
Strive of the 12 months
Maya Stewart v ACT Brumbies
Desiree Miller v Melbourne Rebels
Maddison Levi v France (Hong Kong Bronze Medal match)
Tim Ryan v Blues
Filipo Daugunu v Wales (first Check)
Tom Wright v Wales (second Check)
Maya Stewart v Wales (WXV)
The Rugby Australia Awards shall be streamed stay on rugby.com.au.
