Kanyon Paul

Kanyon Paul (born 5 October 1997) is a New Zealand rugby league footballer who plays for the New Zealand Warriors in the NRL Women's Premiership. Primarily a hooker, she is a New Zealand 9s representative.

Kanyon Paul
Personal information
Born (1997-10-05) 5 October 1997
Hamilton, New Zealand
Height156 cm (5 ft 1 in)
Weight62 kg (9 st 11 lb)
Playing information
PositionHooker
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2019– New Zealand Warriors 5 0 0 0 0
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2019 New Zealand 9s 3 1 0 0 5
As of 10 November 2020
Source: RLP

Background

Born in Hamilton, New Zealand, Paul was a Waikato Rugby Union representative before switching to rugby league.[1]

Playing career

Paul began playing rugby league for the Hamilton City Tigers, where she won a Waikato Rugby League premiership in 2019 alongside New Zealand international Honey Hireme.[2]

On 10 July 2019, Paul joined the New Zealand Warriors NRL Women's Premiership team.[3] In Round 1 of the 2019 NRL Women's season, she made her debut for the Warriors in a 16–12 win over the Sydney Roosters.[4]

In October 2019, she was a member of New Zealand's 2019 Rugby League World Cup 9s-winning squad.[5]

In September 2020, Paul 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.[6]

References
  1. "Kanyon goes with Warriors in grandfather's memory". Newsroom. 22 September 2020.
  2. "Kanyon Paul". NZRL.
  3. "Hireme's signing huge coup". NZ Warriors. 10 July 2019.
  4. "First NRLW side of season named". NZ Warriors. 10 September 2019.
  5. "World Cup winners for WNRL Nines". NZ Warriors. 10 February 2020.
  6. "The historical island set to inspire fab five Warriors women". NRL. 13 September 2020.
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