{"id":416728,"date":"2026-01-16T10:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T10:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/416728\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T10:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T10:56:14","slug":"bok-stars-lead-sa-rugby-awards-2025-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/416728\/","title":{"rendered":"Bok stars lead SA Rugby Awards 2025 nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SA Rugby announced the nominees \u2013 as voted for by members of the media and national teams coaching staff \u2013 in nine categories on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The various winners will be announced in due course, along with the annual OUTsurance Referee of the Year, Provincial Women\u2019s Player of the Year, Associate Member of the Year and the FNB Fans\u2019 Moment of the Year awards \u2013 cast your vote by <a href=\"https:\/\/sa-rugby.partnerships-hub.com\/momentoftheseason\/en\/landing?utm_campaign=sa_rugby_moment_of_the_season-etw-rugby-no_partnership-t1-dec25&amp;utm_medium=organic_social&amp;utm_source=sa_rugby_social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Du Toit, a former winner of both SA Rugby and World Rugby\u2019s top awards, and Nche were on the shortlist last year too, and both were also nominated for the World Rugby Award, while Feinberg-Mngomezulu, like the other four, was named in World Rugby\u2019s 2025 Dream Team. Wiese equally had a stellar season for the Boks and has been nominated for the first time for the top award in South African rugby.<\/p>\n<p>Four previous winners \u2013 Roos, Aseza Hele, Libbie Janse van Rensburg, and Babalwa Latsha \u2013 were nominated for SA Rugby Women\u2019s Player of the Year. The quartet, along with the fifth nominee, Byrhandr\u00e9 Dolf, all played key roles helping South Africa reach the Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup quarter-finals for the first time in a watershed season for the Springbok Women.<\/p>\n<p>Four of the five players nominated for the Young Player of the Year Award played Test rugby in 2025 \u2013 Feinberg-Mngomezulu, Ethan Hooker, Canan Moodie and Zachary Porthen \u2013 while the fifth, Haashim Pead, played a key role for the Junior Boks in their World Rugby U20 Championship triumph.<\/p>\n<p>Pead was also nominated in the category for Junior Springbok Player of the Year, along with SA U20 captain Riley Norton, and Cheswill Jooste, while the three nominees for the Springbok Sevens Men\u2019s Player of the Year Award are Selvyn Davids, Shilton van Wyk and Impi Visser, all of whom were part of the Blitzbok squad that won the HSBC SVNS World Championship in Los Angeles in May.<\/p>\n<p>The success of South Africa\u2019s national teams is reflected in the nominations for the Coach and Team of the Year Awards \u2013 Rassie Erasmus and the Springboks, Philip Snyman and the Blitzboks, and Kevin Foote and the Junior Boks, while Swys de Bruin also made the shortlist for the coach award after guiding the Bok Women to their best finish yet at a Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>On the Carling Currie Cup front, Suzuki Griquas\u2019 success in the Premier Division is underlined by nominations for Gurshwin Wehr and George Whitehead, who are up against the Sanlam Boland Kavaliers\u2019 Donavan Don, and in the First Division, the NovaVit Griffons duo of Andrew Kota and Willem van den Hever will face a stern contest from Keagan Fortune of the Valke.<\/p>\n<p>The nominees are (in alphabetical order): <\/p>\n<p>SA Rugby Men\u2019s Player of the Year<\/p>\n<p>Pieter-Steph du Toit<br \/>\nSacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu<br \/>\nMalcolm Marx<br \/>\nOx Nche<br \/>\nJasper Wiese<\/p>\n<p>SA Rugby Women\u2019s Player of the Year<\/p>\n<p>Byrhandr\u00e9 Dolf<br \/>\nAseza Hele<br \/>\nLibbie Janse van Rensburg<br \/>\nBabalwa Latsha<br \/>\nNadine Roos<\/p>\n<p>SA Rugby Young Player of the Year<\/p>\n<p>Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu (Springboks \/ DHL Stormers)<br \/>\nEthan Hooker (Springboks \/ Hollywoodbets Sharks)<br \/>\nCanan Moodie (Springboks \/ Vodacom Bulls)<br \/>\nHaashim Pead (Junior Springboks \/ Lions)<br \/>\nZachary Porthen (Springboks \/ DHL Stormers)<\/p>\n<p>Springbok Sevens Men\u2019s Player of the Year<\/p>\n<p>Selvyn Davids<br \/>\nShilton van Wyk<br \/>\nImpi Visser<\/p>\n<p>Junior Springbok Player of the Year<\/p>\n<p>Cheswill Jooste<br \/>\nRiley Norton<br \/>\nHaashim Pead<\/p>\n<p>Team of the Year<\/p>\n<p>Junior Springboks<br \/>\nSpringboks<br \/>\nSpringbok Sevens<\/p>\n<p>Coach of the Year<\/p>\n<p>Swys de Bruin (Springbok Women)<br \/>\nRassie Erasmus (Springboks)<br \/>\nKevin Foote (Junior Springboks)<br \/>\nPhilip Snyman (Springbok Sevens)<\/p>\n<p>Carling Currie Cup Premier Division Player of the Year<\/p>\n<p>Donavan Don (Sanlam Boland Kavaliers)<br \/>\nGurshwin Wehr (Suzuki Griquas)<br \/>\nGeorge Whitehead (Suzuki Griquas)<\/p>\n<p>Carling Currie Cup First Division Player of the Year<\/p>\n<p>Keagan Fortune (Valke)<br \/>\nAndrew Kota (NovaVit Griffons)<br \/>\nWillem van den Hever (NovaVit Griffons)<\/p>\n<p>FNB Fans\u2019 Moments of the Year \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/sa-rugby.partnerships-hub.com\/momentoftheseason\/en\/landing?utm_campaign=sa_rugby_moment_of_the_season-etw-rugby-no_partnership-t1-dec25&amp;utm_medium=organic_social&amp;utm_source=sa_rugby_social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VOTE NOW<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p>The Springboks&#8217; defence of the Castle Lager Rugby Championship title<br \/>\nThe Springbok Women\u2019s best-ever performance at a Rugby World Cup<br \/>\nThe Springboks\u2019 unbeaten run on the Castle Lager Outgoing Tour in November<br \/>\nThe Junior Springboks winning the World Rugby U20 Championship<br \/>\nThe Springboks\u2019 record victory over the All Blacks in New Zealand<br \/>\nThe Springbok Sevens winning the HSBC SVNS World Championship in Los Angeles<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/26016-sa-rugby-awards-bok-women.jpg\" alt=\"SA Rugby Women\u2019s Player of the Year nominees.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">SA Rugby Women\u2019s Player of the Year nominees.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/26016-sa-rugby-awards-young-player.jpg\" alt=\"SA Rugby Young Player of the Year nominees.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">SA Rugby Young Player of the Year nominees.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/26016-sa-rugby-awards-blitzboks.jpg\" alt=\"Springbok Sevens Men\u2019s Player of the Year nominees.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Springbok Sevens Men\u2019s Player of the Year nominees.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/26016-sa-rugby-awards-junior-boks.jpg\" alt=\"Junior Springbok Player of the Year nominees.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Junior Springbok Player of the Year nominees.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/26016-sa-rugby-awards-currie-cup-premier.jpg\" alt=\"Carling Currie Cup Premier Division Player of the Year nominees.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Carling Currie Cup Premier Division Player of the Year nominees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SA Rugby announced the nominees \u2013 as voted for by members of the media and national teams coaching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-416728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}