The full list of club award winners from the 2024 NRLW Telstra Premiership season as they were announced by each team.
Winger Julia Robinson has been crowned NRLW Player of the Year for 2024.
For Brisbane’s NRLW team, Broncos “Original” Julia Robinson was a much-deserved winner of the Player of the Year award after an outstanding season.
The power-running winger collected 49 points to blitz the judging ahead of Keilee Joseph (26), Hayley Maddick (19), Mele Hufanga (17), Romy Teitzel (15) and Chelsea Lenarduzzi (11).
The Jillaroo finisher was the recipient of the Best Back Award, Most Consistent Award and the Players' Player on a huge night for the 26-year-old who was named in the NRLW Dally M Team Of The Year last week.
Other award recipients for the NRLW squad were Stacey Waaka for Rookie Of The Year, Keilee Joseph for Best Forward, and Chelsea Lenarduzzi for Play Of The Year for her match-winning try against the Sharks in Round 8.
- Player of the Year - Julia Robinson
- Rookie of the Year - Stacey Waaka
- Most Consistent - Julia Robinson
- Best Back - Julia Robinson
- Best Forward - Keilee Joseph
- Play of the Year - Chelsea Lenarduzzi (Round 8 try v Sharks)
- Players' Player - Julia Robinson
Canberra Raiders
Co-captain Simaima Taufa collected her second consecutive Player of the Year award. Taufa had another strong season in the Raiders’ second year in the NRLW, leading the team both on and off the field.
It was announced this year that the Raiders NRLW Player of the Year would also receive a Meninga Medal moving forward, with the award having the same name as the NRL player of the year winner.
- NRLW Player of the Year: Simaima Taufa
- NRLW Coaches’ Award: Chanté Temara
- NRLW Rookie of the Year: Relna Wuruki-Hosea
- Female Junior Representative of the Year – Claudia Finau
Cronulla Sharks
After collecting two Dally M trophies, inspirational captain Tiana Penitani has secured back-to-back Sharks NRLW Player of the Year awards.
Penitani, who won the Dally M Captain of the Year and Centre of the Year gongs, was announced as her team's best and fairest for 2024 at Doltone House Sylvania in front of over 350 players, officials, sponsors and guests.
The 28-year-old Penitani, who beat out fellow nominees Ellie Johnston, Quincy Dodd, Emma Tonegato and Brooke Anderson for the NRLW Player of the Year mantle, will lead her side into a blockbuster Grand Final against the Roosters at Accor Stadium.
Penitani has scored a team-high seven tries in 10 matches this season while averaging 145 metres per game. She crossed for a crucial four-pointer in the 14-0 semi-final win over minor premiers Brisbane to secure a berth in the decider.
The skipper was also voted as the NRLW Members' Players of the Year and received the NRLW Wellbeing & Education Excellence award.
- NRLW Player of the Year: Tiana Penitani
- NRLW Players' Player: Quincy Dodd & Brooke Anderson
- NRLW Rookie of the Year: Georgia Hannaway
- Sharks Have Heart Community Award: NRLW – Emma Tonegato
- NRLW Wellbeing & Education Excellence Award: Tiana Penitani
Gold Coast Titans
Evania Pelite has claimed the triple crown in 2024, awarded Titans NRLW Player of the Year honours after a stellar season in the No. 1 jersey.
Titans coach Karyn Murphy praised Pelite for her inspirational performances in what has been one of her best NRLW seasons to date.
"Vani is so deserving of our player of the year. She’s had a wonderful season and as soon as she came back for the pre-season, I knew she was going to be on," she said.
- NRLW Player of the Year: Evania Pelite
- NRLW Rookie of the Year: Georgia Grey
- Members' NRLW MVP: Evania Pelite
- NRLW Players Player Award: Evania Pelite
Newcastle Knights
Fullback Tamika Upton has claimed the Knights NRLW Player of the Year following another stellar campaign in 2024.
The Jillaroo and Queensland Origin representative played in all 10 games of the 2024 campaign having scored seven tries, provided 13 try-assists and averaged 125 run metres.
A continual threat in attack, Upton helped steer the club to a third-straight finals finish, falling one game short of the Grand Final.
NRLW Second Rower of the Year, Yasmin Clydsdale, was recognised for a superb season taking home the Knight in Shining Armour Award.
- NRLW Player of the Year - Tamika Upton
- Players' Player - Laishon Albert-Jones
- Gladiator of the Year - Olivia Higgins
- Knight in Shining Armour - Yasmin Clydsdale
- Rookie of the Year - Tenika Willison
- Community Player of the Year - Kayla Romaniuk
- NSW Women's Premiership Player of the Year - Joeli Morris
- NSW Women's Premiership Players' Player - Evah McEwen & Melanie Howard
Bree Chester has won her first North Queensland Cowboys NRLW Player of the Year after compiling a sensational 2024 campaign in which she emerged as the leader of the Cowboys forward pack.
A second-rower in her debut season at the club, Chester switched to lock in 2024, a move which paid immediate and significant dividends.
- NRLW Cowboy of the Year: Bree Chester
- Players' Player: Jakiya Whitfeld
- Townsville Bulletin Fan Choice Players of the Year: Jakiya Whitfeld
- Cowboys Way Award: Alisha Foord
- Rookies of the Year: Lily Peacock
Parramatta Eels
Elsie Albert was rewarded for her incredible campaign by winning the NRLW Player of the Year Award. She made a triumphant return from injury this year, leading Parramatta from the front in all nine NRLW games.
Abbi Church won the Blue & Gold Army Award for a second consecutive season, and was also named Players' Player. The hard-working fullback hit new heights in 2024, excelling for the Eels in both attack and defence.
- NRLW Player of the Year: Elsie Albert
- NRLW Players' Player: Abbi Church
- NRLW Coaches Award: Rachael Pearson
- NRLW Rookie of the Year: Rory Owen
- NRLW Community Award: Mahalia Murphy
- NRLW Blue & Gold Army Award: Abbi Church
St George Illawarra Dragons
Alexis Tauaneai and Angelina Teakaraanga-Katoa were named co-recipients of the Dragons' NRLW Player of the Year Award.
Tauaneai, who made her NRLW debut for the club in Round 1 last year, led the team in runs (150), run metres (1529), post contact metres (705), tackles (300) and offloads (19). Teakaraanga-Katoa meanwhile played in all nine games for the second-straight year amassing career-highs in run metres (1260) and tackles (262).
- NRLW Player of the Year Award: Alexis Tauaneai and Angelina Teakaraanga-Katoa
- Red V Members NRLW Player: Teagan Berry
- NRLW Emerging Talent award: Kasey Reh
- Coach’s Award: Jamilee Bright
Wests Tigers
Sarah Togatuki has been named NRLW Player of the Year at the 2024 Wests Tigers Awards Gala, held at ICC Sydney.
Togatuki produced typically strong performances in the middle to claim her second consecutive Wests Tigers NRLW Player of the Year award.
The NSW Origin prop was a standout in Wests Tigers’ second season in the NRLW, with her reputation as one of the strongest runners in the competition cemented further in 2024.
‘Sala’ averaged 122 running metres per game this year and made 238 tackles at a 95.2% efficiency rate.
Some strong late-season performances meant she ran down Brooke Talataina in the awards voting to secure her second-straight Wests Tigers NRLW Player of the Year title.
Talataina came away with the Wests Tigers NRLW Players’ Player award and her transition into the forward pack proved extremely fruitful, as her reliability and effort-based play on the edge also led to her selection in the Kiwi Ferns squad for the upcoming Pacific Championships.
Wests Tigers NRLW Rookie of the Year was awarded to Natasha Penitani who seemed to improve with every appearance in the top grade.
Penitani played all nine games for the club in her first season and her powerful running made the interchange middle forward hard to handle when introduced into the contest.
- NRLW Player of the Year — Sarah Togatuki
- NRLW Players’ Player — Brooke Talataina
- NRLW Rookie of the Year — Natasha Penitani
