End of season honours have flooded in for our True Blues in the off season, with four players claiming top honours at their NRLW clubs for the 2024 season.
Simaima Taufa (Canberra Raiders), Tiana Penitani (Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks), Olivia Kernick (Sydney Roosters) and Sarah Togatuki (Wests Tigers) have capped off stellar 2024 seasons by claiming their NRL Clubs Player of the Year Award.
Taufa, Penitani and Togatuki secured back-to-back Player of the Year awards after taking home the top honours in 2023 while Kernick won her first Kari Australia NRLW Player of the Year award.
Roosters captain Isabelle Kelly was awarded with the Players’ Player honours along with the Members Player of the Year for what was a historic year for the playmaker.
Penitani was also awarded with the NRLW Wellbeing & Education Excellence Award, while fellow True Blue and Sharks teammates Quincy Dodd received the NRLW Players’ Player award and Emma Tonegato took home the ‘Sharks Have a Heart’ community award.
In addition to the seven players who received honours another six True Blues collected end-of-season honours across five clubs.
Other club awards won by NSW women’s Origin players, and extended squad players, include:
Newcastle Knights – Olivia Higgins (Gladiator of the Year), Yasmin Clydsdale (Knight in Shining Armour)
North Queensland Cowboys – Jakiya Whitfeld (Players’ Player, Townsville Bulletin Fan Choice Player of the Year)
Parramatta Eels – Rachael Pearson (NRLW Coaches Award)
St George Illawarra Dragons – Teagan Berry (Red V Player of the Year Award)
West Tigers – Botille Vette-Welsh (Wayne Pearce Community Award)
