Darcy Parish’s round 2 nomination for the NAB Rising Star award has brought the Club back to the top of the list for all-time nominations.
The 18-year-old became the 37th Bomber to receive a nomination for the award since it was introduced in 1993.
Parish earned the honour in just his second game.
Che Cockatoo-Collins, David Zaharakis and Dyson Heppell who all received the nomination after their debut.
Parish’s performance on the weekend demonstrated exactly why he was so highly rated at the 2015 National Draft.
Taken by the Bombers with pick 5 the ex-Geelong Falcon starred against Melbourne collecting 21 disposals, laying a game high eight tackles and kicking his first goal in AFL.
Coach John Worsfold praised Parish following the Bombers’ first win of the season, and has been pleased by the enthuisasim and profeesionalism that the youngster has demonstrated so far.
“Darcy’s first two games have been extremely pleasing,” Coach John Worsfold said.
“He really hunts the footy and he’s got a good knack of getting on the end of it and then he shows composure when he gets his hands on it.
“And when he gets on the outside, his ability to finish with a goal on the run is also pretty handy.”
Essendon now sit equal first with Melbourne with a total of 37 Rishing Star nominations each.
Dyson Heppell remains the only Essendon player to have ever received the award.
Essendon Rising Star Nominees:
James Hird
Dustin Fletcher
Mark Mercuri
Joe Misiti
Ricky Olarenshaw
Che Cockatoo-Collins
Scott Cummings
Ryan O’Connor
Matthew Lloyd
Blake Caracella
Jason Johnson
Dean Rioli
Dean Solomon
Mark Johnson
Adam Ramanauskas
Aaron Henneman
Danny Jacobs
Mark McVeigh
Ted Richards
Marc Bullen
Brent Stanton
Kepler Bradley
Jason Laycock
Patrick Ryder
Bachar Houli
Kyle Reimers
David Zaharakis
Tayte Pears
Michael Hurley
Jake Melksham
Michael Hurley
Dyson Heppell
Jake Carlisle
Zach Merrett
Joe Daniher
Orazio Fantasia
Darcy Parish
