New Zealand stands equal with Australia in winning three World Cup trophies but hasn’t won the tournament since 2008. While playing rugby union, she was asked to represent Samoa, the birthplace of her father, in a rugby league international against the Kiwi Ferns. A stint playing union in Japan followed before she eventually returned to Sydney to find her rugby league pathway. “If you were to ask me when I was little what I wanted to do, I wouldn’t have seen this (a career playing rugby league). First published in Rugby League World magazine, Issue 522 (July 2026)