{"id":850079,"date":"2026-08-10T09:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T09:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/850079\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T09:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T09:06:10","slug":"dattoli-earns-rising-star-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/850079\/","title":{"rendered":"Dattoli earns Rising Star Nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                In his first senior appearance for 2026, the 20-year-old collected 23 disposals and recorded seven marks, in addition to booting his first two AFL goals.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Sydney Swans forward Jesse Dattoli has been named the Round 22 Telstra AFL Rising Star nominee, following the side\u2019s 97-point win over Port Adelaide on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>In his first senior appearance for 2026, the 20-year-old collected 23 disposals and recorded seven marks, in addition to booting his first two AFL goals.<\/p>\n<p>Dattoli arrived in the Harbour City after he was taken with Sydney&#8217;s first pick and 22nd selection overall in the 2024 AFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>He made his AFL debut in Round 21 last season, going on to feature in three games in his debut year.<\/p>\n<p>Sydney Swans Executive General Manager, AFL Football Leon Cameron said Dattoli\u2019s nomination was well deserved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great recognition for a talented and driven young player,\u201d Cameron said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter an interrupted pre-season, Jesse has worked hard for his opportunity, and it was fantastic to see him take it in the way he did on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo come into the senior side and have an impact straight away is a credit to him and the work he\u2019s put in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his first senior appearance for 2026, the 20-year-old collected 23 disposals and recorded seven marks, in addition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-850079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850079","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=850079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}