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| Born | 9 August 1983 Auckland, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 163 cm (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 68 kg (10 st 10 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing, Second-row, Hooker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: RLP As of 4 November 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hilda Peters (born 9 August 1983) is a New Zealand rugby league footballer who plays for the New Zealand Warriors in the NRL Women's Premiership.
Primarily a winger, she is a New Zealand representative.
Born in Auckland, Peters began playing rugby league when she was 19. [1] Her younger sisters, Rona and Kahurangi, are also New Zealand Test representatives. [2]
Peters, who is of Māori descent, has a moko kauae (a traditional Māori face tattoo) and is fluent in te reo. [3] [4]
On 9 November 2014, Peters made her debut for New Zealand in their 12–8 win over Australia, playing alongside her sisters Rona and Kahurangi. [5]
In November 2017, she was a member of New Zealand's 2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup squad. [6] On 2 December 2017, she started at second-row in New Zealand's final loss to Australia. [7]
On 31 July 2018, she was named in the inaugural New Zealand Warriors NRL Women's Premiership squad. [8] In Round 1 of the 2018 NRL Women's season, she made her debut for the Warriors, starting on the wing and scoring a try in a 10–4 win over the Sydney Roosters. Her try was the first ever try scored in the NRL Women's Premiership. [9]
On 15 February 2019, she started on the wing for the Māori All Stars in their 8–4 win over the Indigenous All Stars. [10]
In September 2020, Hale 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. [11]
In September 2022, Hilda Peters announced that she would be standing for a position for the Manurewa Local Board in the 2022 Auckland local board elections, as part of the Manurewa Action Team ticket. [12] Peters was unsuccessful, polling 3,425 votes and placing eighteenth in a field of twenty-nine candidates. [13]
Peters contested the Māngere electorate during the 2023 New Zealand general election as a Te Pāti Māori candidate, and was also placed at 11 on Te Pāti Māori's party list. [14] [15] She came fourth place in Mangare, with 934 votes. [16]
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