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Brogan Evans is a Welsh rugby league player who currently plays for the Salford Red Devils wheelchair rugby league team in the RFL Wheelchair Championship and the Wales national wheelchair rugby league team.
Evans began playing the running game and received her first call up for Wales in 2023 while at Salford Red Devils. The game resulted in a 0–60 defeat to England. [1] During her time at Salford, Evans topped the carries and tackles chart for the Super League second division. [2] The following winter she transferred to Wigan Warriors for the 2024 season, marking her first time in the top division of the domestic club game. During Wigan's second Challenge Cup game against Barrow, Evans suffered injuries to her anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament, [3] hospitalising her until well into 2025, and became a wheelchair user, though it is still unknown if her wheelchair use will be permanent. During the recovery process, Evens returned to Salford Red Devils, for the wheelchair team, and also earned a call up to the Wales wheelchair team for the 2025 Celtic Cup. [4] In doing so, she became the first rugby league player to earn a senior cap across two disciplines of the sport. [5] [6] [7]
Evans began playing rugby at 10 years old at De Montfort University and played for Birkenhead Park Panthers and Warrington Wolves at academy level before her transfer to Salford. [8]
Evans is on the autism spectrum and has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder [9] and epilepsy. [10]