All Black Ardie Savea was named the best rugby player in New Zealand for the third time on Thursday after a season in which he won his 100th test cap and inspired Moana Pasifika to their best Super Rugby campaign.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old loose forward added a third Kelvin R Tremain Memorial Player of the Year award to his 2019 and 2023 honours at Thursday’s New Zealand Rugby awards.<\/p>\n
He also walked away with the prizes for the best All Blacks player and best New Zealand Super Rugby player.<\/p>\n
Savea, World Rugby Player of the Year in 2023, in May won the inaugural overall Super Rugby Player of the Year award with two rounds of the season still to play.<\/p>\n
“Ardie has a level of consistency that is unmatched, and his three awards tonight demonstrate that,” New Zealand Rugby chief executive Mark Robinson said.<\/p>\n
“He keeps raising the bar for what’s possible on an individual level, and brings his inspirational leadership to every environment. He is massively respected domestically and internationally.”<\/p>\n
Teenager Braxton Sorensen-McGee, World Rugby’s Women’s Breakthrough Player of the Year in 2025, won the Black Ferns Player of the Year and New Zealand Age Grade Player of the Year.<\/p>\n
Jorja Miller, who won the Kelvin R Tremain award last year, added the Black Ferns Sevens Player of the Year award to her World Rugby Women’s Sevens Player of the Year title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Black Ardie Savea was named the best rugby player in New Zealand for the third time on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-186491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}