Maddison Weatherall

Maddison Weatherall (born 10 September 2001) is a New Zealand rugby league footballer who plays as a prop for the St George Illawarra Dragons in the NRL Women's Premiership and the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the NSWRL Women's Premiership.

Maddison Weatherall
Personal information
Born (2001-09-10) 10 September 2001
Auckland, New Zealand
Height175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight110 kg (17 st 5 lb)
Playing information
PositionProp, Lock
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2019– St George Illawarra 5 0 0 0 0
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2020 Māori All Stars 1 0 0 0 0
As of 29 November 2020
Source: RLP

Background

Born in Auckland, Weatherall was raised in Wollongong and played her junior rugby league for the Western Suburbs Red Devils.[1]

Playing career

In 2018, Weatherall played for the Illawarra Steelers in the Tarsha Gale Cup.[2] Later that year, she joined the St George Illawarra Dragons NRL Women's Premiership squad as a development player.[3]

2019

In 2019, Weatherall once again played for the Steelers' Tarsha Gale Cup team, captaining the side in their Grand Final win over the Newcastle Knights.[4] On 18 June, she was promoted to the Dragons 22-woman squad.[5]

On 21 June, she captained the New South Wales under-18 team in their 24–4 win over Queensland in the inaugural Under-18 State of Origin game.[6]

In Round 1 of the 2019 NRL Women's season, Weatherall made her debut for the Dragons in a 4–14 loss to the Brisbane Broncos.[7] On 6 October, she came off the bench in the Dragons' 6–30 Grand Final loss to the Broncos.[8]

2020

In 2020, Weatherall joined the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs NRL Women's Premiership team. On 22 February, she came off the bench for the Māori All Stars in their 4–10 loss to the Indigenous All Stars.[9]

Weatherall played just one NRLW game for the Dragons in 2020, starting at lock in their Round 3 loss to the New Zealand Warriors.[10]

References
  1. "Teen star Weatherall hoping to complete impressive trifecta". Sydney Morning Herald. 1 October 2019.
  2. "TEAMS: NSWRL Tarsha Gale Cup – 2018 Round 1". League Unlimited. 6 February 2018.
  3. "Kezie Apps has hailed Honey Hireme's role". NRL. 1 August 2019.
  4. "20 stars for 2020 – Maddison Weatherall". NSWRL. 6 January 2020.
  5. "Dragons re-sign four juniors to Women's Premiership ranks". St George Illawarra Dragons. 18 June 2019.
  6. "NSWRL announces NSW Under-18s Women's team". NSWRL. 22 May 2019.
  7. "NRLW late mail: Round 1 v Broncos". St George Illawarra Dragons. 15 September 2019.
  8. "NRLW late mail: Grand final v Broncos". St George Illawarra Dragons. 6 October 2019.
  9. "Two Bulldogs named in Women's All Stars teams". Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs. 30 January 2020.
  10. "NRLW late mail: Round 3 v Warriors". St George Illawarra Dragons. 17 October 2020.
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