Tasia Seumanufagai

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.

Tasia Seumanufagai
Personal information
Born (1989-09-15) 15 September 1989
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
As of 17 November 2020
Source: RLP

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.
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