Koroibete nominated for the People’s Choice Australian Rugby Player of the Year Award

Wallabies winger, Marika Koroibete has been nominated as one of the 10 players for the People’s Choice Australian Rugby Player of the Year Award.

Koroibete started his Australian rugby campaign in 2017 against the Argentinian side in Canberra.

Koroibete was also part of the Wallabies team to the 2019 Rugby World Cup and has been influential in the Wallabies team ever since.

Koroibete has been nominated along with other players whose performances when representing Australia have been consistently dominant amongst their peers.

An ever-present for the @wallabies in 2019, @MelbourneRebels winger Marika Koroibete started eight Test matches and scored four tries, winning the John Eales Medal.

Is he your @taylorswines People's Choice Australian Player of the Year?

ENTER AND WIN: https://t.co/oyUUfG0Suv pic.twitter.com/ulP8NqLPqY

— RUPA (@RugbyPlayersAus) November 20, 2019

Other players that are nominated for this award is Junior Wallabies skipper, Fraser McReight, Australian Rugby Women’s 7s players, Evania Pelite and Ellia Green, Australian 7s players Maurice Longbottom and Nick Malouf, Wallabies Skipper, Michael Hooper, Izack Rodda.

This award was first presented in 2016, when it was won by Michael Hooper, before Charlotte Caslick became the first women's player to receive the honour in 2017. 

2018 saw the first ever dead heat in the history of the award, with Australia Women’s Rugby Sevens star Evania Pelite and Wallabies flanker David Pocock unable to be separated by the public.