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.
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| Born | 5 October 1997 Hamilton, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 156 cm (5 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg (9 st 11 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Hooker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: RLP As of 10 November 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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
- "Kanyon goes with Warriors in grandfather's memory". Newsroom. 22 September 2020.
- "Kanyon Paul". NZRL.
- "Hireme's signing huge coup". NZ Warriors. 10 July 2019.
- "First NRLW side of season named". NZ Warriors. 10 September 2019.
- "World Cup winners for WNRL Nines". NZ Warriors. 10 February 2020.
- "The historical island set to inspire fab five Warriors women". NRL. 13 September 2020.