Georgia Roche

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Georgia Roche
Personal information
Born (2000-09-03) 3 September 2000 (age 24)
Batley, West Yorkshire England
Height160 cm (5 ft 3 in)
Playing information
Position Stand-off, Scrum-half, Loose forward
Club
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
2017 Featherstone Rovers 00000
2018–21 Castleford Tigers 00000
2022 Leeds Rhinos 750020
2023– Newcastle Knights 81004
Total1560024
Representative
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
2018–23 England 1060024
Source: [1]
As of 7 October 2023

Georgia Roche (born 3 September 2000) [2] is an English professional rugby league footballer for the Newcastle Knights in the NRL Women's Premiership. She plays at either stand-off , scrum-half or loose forward. She previously played for the Leeds Rhinos in the Rugby Football League Women's Super League.

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Career

Roche began her rugby league career playing for Drighlington ARLFC before moving to neighbouring amateur club Dewsbury Moor, during which time she represented Yorkshire in the 2018 Women's Rugby League Association County of Origin against Lancashire and scored Yorkshire's only points in a 10–4 defeat. [3] [4]

In 2017 Roche joined Featherstone Rovers Ladies, for the inaugural season of the Women's Super League. At the end of the season Featherstone qualified for the Grand Final and Roche scored all of Featherstone's points (1 try, 1 goal) in a 36–6 defeat to Bradford Bulls Women. [5]

Over the winter Roche moved from Featherstone to Castleford and helped Castleford to the final of the 2018 RFL Women's Challenge Cup. In the final she scored one of Castleford's three tries in the 20–14 defeat to Leeds Rhinos Women. [6]

At the 2018 Man of Steel Awards on 8 October 2018 Roche was named as the inaugural winner of the Woman of Steel award. [7] In the same month Roche was one of the ten nominees for the 2018 BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year and was also shortlisted for the first women's Golden Boot Award. [8] [9] Roche made her international debut for England against France in Carcasonne on 27 October 2018, scoring two tries in England's 54–4 win. [10]

Following a 2019 domestic season in which Roche helped Castleford to the League Leaders Shield in the 2019 RFL Women's Super League she was selected to be part of the England squads for both the test series against the Papua New Guinea Orchids and the World 9s tournament in October and November 2019. [11]

Roche played in the June 2021 Test Match for England against Wales. [12] [13]

In 2023, she signed a 5-year contract with Australian side, Newcastle Knights in the NRL Women's Premiership. [14] In round 3 of the 2023 NRLW season, she made her NRLW debut for the Knights against the Parramatta Eels. [15] She went on to play in the 2023 NRLW Grand Final, starting at five-eighth in the Knights' 24-18 victory. [16]

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References

  1. ↑ "Georgia Roche - Playing Career - Summary". www.rugbyleagueproject.org.
  2. ↑ "Georgia Roche: the making of a Woman of Steel". Daily Telegraph . 16 September 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  3. ↑ Powell, Jennie (30 January 2018). "The Red Rose takes the spoils at County of Origin 7" . Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  4. ↑ Smith, Peter (23 January 2018). "Women's RL: Thorny issue of roses rivalry up for grabs". Yorkshire Evening Post . Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  5. ↑ "Bradford Bulls beat Featherstone Rovers to win Women's Super League Grand Final". BBC Sport . 7 October 2017. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  6. ↑ "Women's Challenge Cup: Leeds Rhinos women beat Castleford Tigers 20-14 to lift trophy". BBC Sport . 4 August 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  7. ↑ "Castleford's Georgia Roche wins inaugural Woman of Steel". Sky Sports . 9 October 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  8. ↑ "BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year 2018: Top 10 revealed". BBC Sport . 15 October 2018.
  9. ↑ "Elliott Whitehead and John Bateman short-listed for Golden Boot". Sydney Morning Herald . 30 October 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  10. ↑ "Report: France Women 4-54 England Women". RFL. 27 October 2018. Archived from the original on 27 October 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  11. ↑ "England Women's squad announced for 2019 tour". Total RL. 2 August 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  12. ↑ "Five uncapped players in England Women squad to face Wales". Rugby-League.com. 21 June 2021. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  13. ↑ Hafez, Shamoom (25 June 2021). "Women's international: England 60-0 Wales - 10 different try-scorers for hosts". BBC. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  14. ↑ "2023 NRLW Signings Tracker: Contract lengths confirmed for all clubs". National Rugby League. 5 June 2023.
  15. ↑ "NRLW Squad Update: Eels v Knights". Newcastle Knights. 5 August 2023.
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