Crystal Tamarua

Crystal Tamarua (born 30 July 1995) is a New Zealand rugby league footballer who plays as a prop for the New Zealand Warriors in the NRL Women's Premiership.

Crystal Tamarua
Personal information
Born (1995-07-30) 30 July 1995
Auckland, New Zealand
Height174 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight89 kg (14 st 0 lb)
Playing information
PositionProp, Second-row, Halfback
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2018– New Zealand Warriors 7 0 0 0 0
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2017–19 New Zealand 3 0 0 0 0
2017 Cook Islands 3 0 0 0 0
2019 New Zealand 9s 3 0 0 0 0
As of 24 November 2020
Source: RLP

She is a New Zealand and Cook Islands representative.

Background

Born in Auckland, Tamarua played her junior rugby league for the Bay Roskill Vikings.

Playing career

On 6 May 2017, while playing for the Richmond Roses, Tamarua made her Test debut for New Zealand, starting at second-row in a 4–16 loss to Australia.[1][2]

In November 2017, Tamarua represented the Cook Islands at the 2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup.[3]

On 1 August 2018, Tamarua joined the New Zealand Warriors NRL Women's Premiership team.[4] In Round 2 of the 2018 NRL Women's season, she made her debut for the Warriors, starting at prop in a 10–22 loss to the St George Illawarra Dragons.[5]

In October 2019, she was a member of New Zealand's 2019 Rugby League World Cup 9s-winning squad.[6]

In September 2020, Tamarua was one of five New Zealand-based Warriors' players to travel to Australia to play in the 2020 NRL Women's premiership. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the players had to quarantine for 14 days on entering Australia and 14 days on return to New Zealand when the season was completed.[7]

References
  1. "Vatuvei to debut for Tonga". NZ Warriors. 2 May 2017.
  2. "No joy for Kiwi Ferns". NZ Warriors. 6 May 2017.
  3. "Cook Islands name team for 2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup". Rugby League Planet. 10 November 2017.
  4. "Vodafone Warriors unveil NRL women's premiership squad". NZ Warriors. 1 August 2018.
  5. "Warriors make changes for Dragons". NZ Warriors. 15 September 2018.
  6. "World Cup winners for WNRL Nines". NZ Warriors. 10 February 2020.
  7. "The historical island set to inspire fab five Warriors women". NRL. 13 September 2020.
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