Shaylee Bent

Shaylee Bent (born 13 September 2000) is an Australian rugby league footballer who plays as a second-rower for the St George Illawarra Dragons in the NRL Women's Premiership and the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the NSWRL Women's Premiership.

Shaylee Bent
Personal information
Born (2000-09-13) 13 September 2000
Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
Height173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight80 kg (12 st 8 lb)
Playing information
PositionSecond-row, Centre
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2019– St George Illawarra 6 1 0 0 4
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2019–20 Indigenous All Stars 2 0 0 0 0
2019 Australia 9s 2 0 0 0 0
2020 New South Wales 1 0 0 0 0
As of 6 October 2020
Source: RLP

She is a New South Wales, Indigenous All Stars and Australian 9s representative.

Background

Born in Penrith, New South Wales, Bent is of Indigenous Australian and Greek descent.[1] At age 15, Bent began playing rugby league for the Glenmore Park Brumbies.[2]

Playing career

In 2017, she played for the Parramatta Eels in the Tarsha Gale Cup.[3] In 2018, she moved to the Wests Tigers Tarsha Gale Cup side.[4]

2019

In 2019, Bent joined Mounties RLFC in the NSWRL Women's Premiership, starting at centre in their Grand Final loss to CRL Newcastle.[5] In May 2019, she represented NSW City at the NRL Women's National Championships.[6] In July, she was 18th player for the New South Wales side.[7]

In Round 1 of the 2019 NRL Women's season, Bent made her debut for the St George Illawarra Dragons in a 4–14 loss to the Brisbane Broncos. On 6 October, she started at second-row in the Dragons' 30–6 Grand Final loss to the Broncos.[8] Later that month, she represented Australia at the 2019 Rugby League World Cup 9s.[9]

2020

On 22 February, she started at second-row for the Indigenous All Stars in their 10–4 win over the Maori All Stars.[10] In 2020, she played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the NSWRL Women's Premiership.[11]

On 17 October, she was named the Dragons' NRLW Player of the Year.[12] On 13 November, she made her State of Origin debut for New South Wales, starting at second-row in their 18–24 loss to Queensland.[13]

Achievements and accolades

Individual

References
  1. "Bent making strides in bid to close gap". NRL. 1 August 2020.
  2. "Shaylee Bent in Rugby League World Cup 9's". The Daily Telegraph. 23 October 2019.
  3. "Junior Reps - Round Seven". Parramatta Eels. 27 March 2017.
  4. "Wests Tigers 2018 Tarsha Gale Cup Squad". Wests Tigers. 5 February 2018.
  5. "The Grand Final win two years in the making". NSWRL. 10 August 2019.
  6. "Line-ups named for Women's National Championships". NRL. 22 May 2019.
  7. "Harvey Norman NSW Women's State of Origin Team named". RLPA. 11 June 2019.
  8. "'Aspire to inspire': Rookie's busy schedule isn't Bent out of shape". NRL. 28 September 2019.
  9. "Australia announce Women's 9s squad". Rugby League Planet. 7 October 2019.
  10. "NRL All Stars: Indigenous women beat Maori All Stars". Wide World of Sports. 22 February 2020.
  11. "Round Two Line Up - Womens Premiership". South Sydney Rabbitohs. 21 July 2020.
  12. "Bent wins big as Dragons round out 2020 awards". St George Illawarra Dragons. 17 October 2020.
  13. "NSW Women's Origin team announced". NSWRL. 10 November 2020.
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