Tasia Seumanufagai

Tasia Seumanufagai
Personal information
Born (1989-09-15) 15 September 1989 (age 35)
Auckland, New Zealand
Height165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Weight76 kg (12 st 0 lb)
Playing information
PositionLock, Second-row
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2019 New Zealand Warriors 1 0 0 0 0
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2011 Samoa 1 0 0 0 0
Source: RLP
As of 17 November 2020

Tasia Seumanufagai (born 15 September 1989) is a New Zealand rugby league footballer who plays for the Wests Tigers in the NSWRL Women's Premiership.

Primarily a lock, she is a Samoan international and previously played for the New Zealand Warriors in the NRL Women's Premiership.

Background

Seumanufagai was born in Auckland and raised in Wellington. Her cousin, Ava, is a professional rugby league player.[1][2]

Playing career

In 2010, Seumanufagai began playing rugby league for the Randwick Kingfishers.[3] She later moved to Melbourne, where she began playing rugby union before playing rugby league for the Truganina Rabbitohs.[4][5]

In 2011, she made her Test debut for Samoa against Australia in Apia.[6]

In May 2019, she represented the Combined Affiliated States at the Women's National Championships.[7] In June 2019, she was named in Samoa's squad for their Test against New Zealand but did not play.[8]

On 10 July 2019, she joined the New Zealand Warriors NRL Women's Premiership team.[9] In Round 3 of the 2019 NRL Women's season, she made her debut for the Warriors in a 10–8 win over the Brisbane Broncos.[10]

In 2020, Seumanufagai played for the Wests Tigers in the NSWRL Women's Premiership.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Seumanufagai makes big sacrifice". NRL. 5 September 2019.
  2. ^ "Meet the players: 2019 NRLW squad". NZ Warriors. 26 August 2019.
  3. ^ "Seumanufagai continues to shine through sacrifice". Wests Tigers. 28 August 2020.
  4. ^ "Awards night winners". NRL Victoria.
  5. ^ "Top 10 rising stars of women's rugby league to compete in National Championships". The Courier Mail. 28 May 2019.
  6. ^ "Sport: Fetu Samoa to play first women's international in eight years". RNZ. 20 June 2019.
  7. ^ "Line-ups named for Women's National Championships". NRL. 22 May 2019.
  8. ^ "Pacific internationals keen to impress". RNZ. 14 September 2019.
  9. ^ "Hireme's signing huge coup". NZ Warriors. 10 July 2019.
  10. ^ "TBT: Warriors bounce Broncos in big upset". NZ Warriors. 1 October 2020.
  11. ^ "TEAMS: NSWRL Harvey Norman Women's Premiership - 2020 Round 1". LeagueUnlimited. 14 July 2020.