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2024 AFL Rising Star
The NAB AFL Rising Star award is given annually to a standout young player in the Australian Football League (AFL). The winner also receives the Ron Evans Ronald Barry Evans AM (7 July 1939 – 9 March 2007) was an Australian rules footballer, Chairman of the Australian Football League (AFL) from 1998 to 2007, as well as President of the Essendon Football Club from 1988 to 1992. Education Evan ... Medal, named for the former AFL chairman. Eligibility Every round, a nomination is given to a standout young player who performed well during that particular round. To be eligible for nomination, a player must be under 21 on 1 January of that year and have played ten or fewer senior games before the start of the season; a player who is suspended may be nominated, but is not eligible to win the award. Nominations References Afl Rising Star, 2024 {{AFL-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Australia Bank
National Australia Bank (abbreviated NAB, branded nab) is one of the four largest financial institutions in Australia (colloquially referred to as "The Big Four") in terms of market capitalisation, earnings and customers. NAB was ranked 21st-largest bank in the world measured by market capitalisation and 52nd- largest bank in the world as measured by total assets in 2019. , NAB operated 3,500 Bank@Post locations—including 7,000+ ATMs across Australia, New Zealand, and Asia—and served 9 million customers. NAB has an "AA-" long-term issuer rating by Standard & Poor's. History Early history National Australia Bank was formed as National Commercial Banking Corporation of Australia Limited in 1982 by the merger of National Bank of Australasia and the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney. The resulting company was subsequently renamed National Australia Bank Limited. The expanded financial base of the merged entity triggered significant offshore expansion over ensuing years. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvey Gallagher
Harvey Gallagher (born 26 September 2003) is a professional Australian rules footballer for the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL). Early life and career Gallagher grew up in Bendigo, and originally played for the Sandhurst Football Club. AFL career 2024 Season Debuting in Round 1 of the 2024 AFL season in a loss against Melbourne, Gallagher kicked his first goal in the same game. In Round 3 against the West Coast Eagles, Gallagher scored 2 goals and earned a rising star nomination. Statistics ''Statistics are correct to the end of Round 24, 2024.'' , - , 2024 , , Western Bulldogs The Western Bulldogs are a professional Australian rules football team that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition. Founded in 1877 as the Footscray Football Club, and based in West Footscray in the ... , , 12 , 19 , , 9 , , 11 , , 160 , , 82 , , 242 , , 54 , , 59 , , 0.4 , , 0.5 , , 8.4 , , 4.3 , , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caleb Windsor
Caleb Windsor is a professional Australian rules footballer who was selected by as the number seven pick in the 2023 AFL draft. Career Windsor played his junior football at Knox Falcons anLysterfield Wolvesin the Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne, before making the Eastern Ranges The Eastern Ranges is an Australian rules football team in the NAB League, the Victorian statewide under-18s competition. The club is a founding member of the competition (1992) and has produced several players for the Australian Football Le ... NAB League team in 2022 as an under-age player. The next season, on the back of strong performances with Eastern Ranges, he was selected in the Victorian Metro team for the 2023 AFL National Championships. He attended Rowville Secondary College as part of their selective sports academy. Off these performances he was drafted at Pick 7 in the 2023 AFL Draft. Windsor would make his AFL debut in the Demon's Opening Round match against in a 22-point loss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Rogers (footballer)
Jake Rogers is a professional Australian rules footballer who was selected by the Gold Coast Suns with the fourteenth pick in the 2023 AFL draft. Early life Rogers was born in Melbourne to an Australian father and a South African mother. He moved with his family to the Gold Coast at five years of age and attended Varsity College throughout his upbringing. Rogers began playing junior football for the first time shortly after arriving in Queensland when he signed up to play for the Broadbeach Cats in the local Gold Coast under-6s competition. Rogers became a foundation member of the Gold Coast Suns when they entered the Australian Football League in 2011 and he joined the club's Academy at 13 years of age where he met future AFL teammates Jed Walter, Ethan Read and Will Graham. Along with Australian rules football, Rogers also played rugby league for his school in the position of fullback. He made his senior QAFL debut for Broadbeach at 16 years of age in May 2021. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darcy Wilson
Darcy Wilson (born 18 August 2005) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted by St Kilda with their first pick in the 2023 AFL draft, at pick 18 overall. AFL career Wilson immediately impressed at St Kilda, winning the club's 3 kilometre time trial in December 2023. In the pre-season match against , he cemented his place in the team with 24 disposals and 10 marks. Wilson made his AFL debut in Round 1 of the 2024 AFL season, having 11 disposals and kicking 2 goals in an 8-point loss to . He was nominated for the 2024 AFL Rising Star The NAB AFL Rising Star award is given annually to a standout young player in the Australian Football League (AFL). The winner also receives the Ron Evans Ronald Barry Evans AM (7 July 1939 – 9 March 2007) was an Australian rules fo ... in Round 6 following his 15 disposals and one goal in a loss to the . References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harley Reid
Harley Reid (born 17 April 2005) is a professional Australian Rules footballer who was selected by the West Coast Eagles as the number one pick in the 2023 AFL draft. Reid grew up in the Victorian town of Tongala. He attendeSt Joseph’s Collegein Echuca. He previously played for Tongala Football Club, Bendigo Pioneers, and the Victoria Country representative side. He also played games for Essendon and Carlton in the VFL. Prior to the draft, there was intense media speculation about his destination, and rumours that he wanted to remain in Victoria. Scouts considered him one of the strongest draft picks of the previous decade. The local newspaper in Perth, The West Australian ''The West Australian'' is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia. It is owned by Seven West Media (SWM), as is the state's other major newspaper, ''The Sunday Times (Western Australia), The Sunday Times'' ..., featured Reid on the back page of the paper 25 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Bulldogs
The Western Bulldogs are a professional Australian rules football team that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition. Founded in 1877 as the Footscray Football Club, and based in West Footscray in the old City of Footscray west of Melbourne, the club won nine premierships in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) before gaining admission to the Victorian Football League (which became the AFL in 1990) in 1925. The club has won two VFL/AFL premierships, in 1954 and 2016 and was runner-up in 1961 and 2021. Much of the club's supporter base comes from Melbourne's traditionally working-class western region. Docklands Stadium, in the city's inner-west, has served as the club's home ground since 2000, while its headquarters and training facilities are at its original home ground, the Whitten Oval. The club also plays home games at Mars Stadium in the city of Ballarat west of Melbourne. The Western Bulldogs guernsey features two thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Darcy (footballer)
Samuel Adams Darcy (born Samuel Dardeck , as known as "Sam Darcy," 1905 – November 8, 2005) was an American political activist who was a prominent Communist leader in both New York and California. While active in the organization of New York City's unemployment march in 1930, he was perhaps most famous for his role in the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike and support for Harry Bridges. Background "Samuel Adams Darcy" was born Samuel Dardeck in 1905 in the Russian Empire, the son of Fagella Weissbly and Isidor Dardeck. In 1908 he and his family immigrated to New York. He spent his early years growing up in New York City, attending DeWitt Clinton High School in Midtown, and eventually New York University. At an early age Darcy witnessed his father, an ardent union member, severely beaten by police at a garment workers picket line. According to Darcy that was a defining moment in the development of his own political beliefs. During a 1998 radio interview, he recalled: My f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Wardlaw
George Anthony Wardlaw (born 11 June 2004) is a professional Australian rules footballer who was drafted to play for North Melbourne in the Australian Football League (AFL) in the 2022 draft. Early life Wardlaw completed his secondary education at St Kevin's College in Toorak. He was selected for Vic Metro in the NAB AFL Under 18 Championships and played for Oakleigh Chargers in the NAB League. Despite several injuries to his hamstring in the 2022 year, he was still considered to be among the top prospects in the 2022 AFL Draft. As a midfielder he has been described as 'powerful' and drawn comparisons to Melbourne Demons star Clayton Oliver Clayton Oliver (born 22 July 1997) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A midfielder, tall and weighing , Oliver is known for his capabilities on the ins .... Wardlaw attracted favourable attention from the AFL community after his performance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign ''Sovereign'' is a title which can be applied to the highest leader in various categories. The word is borrowed from Old French , which is ultimately derived from the Latin , meaning 'above'. The roles of a sovereign vary from monarch, ruler or ... country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approx ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Dempsey
Oliver Dempsey (born 7 January 2003) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for Geelong in the Australian Football League (AFL). Geelong selected Dempsey with pick 15 in the 2022 rookie draft. Dempsey made his AFL debut in round 6 of the 2022 AFL season against North Melbourne. He won the AFL Rising Star award in 2024. Junior career Originally playing point-guard in basketball which he represented his state in, Dempsey was scouted by the Cats while playing school football with Melbourne's Carey Baptist Grammar School during his final year of school in 2021. In his younger years he played community football for Hawthorn Citizens and Boroondara Hawks in the Yarra Junior Football League. AFL career Dempsey made his debut in round 6 of the 2022 AFL season. In 2023, Dempsey played five senior AFL games and kicked one goal. In round 1 of the 2024 AFL season The Australian Football League (AFL) is the only fully professional competition of Australian rules footba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Evans
Ronald Barry Evans AM (7 July 1939 – 9 March 2007) was an Australian rules footballer, Chairman of the Australian Football League (AFL) from 1998 to 2007, as well as President of the Essendon Football Club from 1988 to 1992. Education Evans was educated at Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne, where he was a classmate of linguist Michael Clyne, businessman Ron Walker, and 1960 Brownlow Medal winner John Schultz. He played full-forward in Caulfield Grammar's First XVIII, a team which also contained two other future VFL players: Ron Cabble who played with Hawthornand Western Bulldogs, Footscray's John Schultz. Evans later gained both a BSc and an MBA. Football career Although not solidly built (he weighed 78 kg), he was 6'2" (188 cm), and his very long arms gave him extra inches in marking contests. Recruited from Essendon Baptists in 1958 – he had broken the Essendon District Football League's Essendon goalkicking record in 1957 – he played his fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
