The community award for the Charles Munro Rugby volunteer of the year sees nominations for Paul Batters (Counties Manukau), Peter Chaplin (Canterbury) and Greg Heller (Otago). National coach of the year nominations comprise Taranaki's Neil Barnes, Waikato NPC's Ross Filipo, Waikato FPC's James Semple and Crusaders' Scott Robertson. Waikato's dual NPC Premiership and Farah Palmer Cup winning teams are up for National team of the year, with Super Rugby Aotearoa champions the Crusaders and Heartland Championship winners South Canterbury also nominated. The finalists include Hawke's Bay first five-eighth Lincoln McClutchie, Taranaki playmaker Stephen Perofeta and Canterbury lock Luke Romano. The standout performers from the NPC, as voted each week by Sky commentators, will be in the running for the Duane Monkley Medal. Men's sevens co-captain Scott Curry is nominated alongside fellow teammates Andrew Knewstubb and Ngarohi McGarvey-Black for the Richard Crawshaw Memorial All Blacks sevens player of the year.
The Fiao'o Faamausili Medal nominees include Farah Palmer Cup Waikato player Grace Houpapa-Barrett, Northland's Krystal Murray and Wellington Pride's Joanah Ngan-Woo. Black Ferns debutant Liana Mikaele-Tu' is nominated for Black Ferns player of the year alongside loose forwards Les Elder and Kennedy Simon.