Kasey Badger

Last updated

Kasey Badger
Personal information
Born (1987-03-11) 11 March 1987 (age 37)
Australia
Refereeing information
YearsCompetitionApps
2018– NRL Women's Premiership 18
2012–Internationals2
Source: [1]
As of 23 October 2022

Kasey Badger is an Australian rugby league referee. She is the first woman to referee a match in the Men's Rugby League World Cup.

Raised in Parramatta, Badger took up refereeing at an early age after having to make the decision between being a player or an official. [2]

Having worked her way through the junior ranks, Badger was refereeing matches in the NSW Cup when she was one of the first two women (along with Belinda Sharpe) appointed to the National Rugby League (NRL) team of full-time officials in 2019. [3] Since then, Badger has been a touch judge in the NRL and has refereed games in the NRL Women's Premiership (NRLW) including the 2018, 2019 and 2022 NRLW Grand Finals. [4]

Badger's first experience as an international referee was in 2012 when she and her husband Gavin were the two referees in a match between Thailand and the Philippines. [5] Badger refereed the women's international between New Zealand and Tonga in June 2022. [6]

Badger was one of three women named in the officials squad for the 2021 Rugby League World Cup and on 20 October 2022 was named as the referee for the match between Wales and Tonga to be played on 24 October 2022, the first woman named to referee a men's World Cup game. [7] [8]

In August 2023 Badger became the second women referee to take charge of an NRL match under the solo referee system. Both she and Belinda Sharpe were allocated games in round 27 of the 2023 NRL season with Badger taking charge of the Gold Coast Titans v Canterbury Bulldogs on 3 September. [9] As Sharpe had refereed the Manly v Wests Tigers match on 1 September, Shape became the first woman to referee solo.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jamie Feeney</span> Australian rugby league footballer and coach

Jamie Feeney is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He played as a second-row and lock for Canterbury Bankstown and the Melbourne Storm in the NRL. He was later the coach of the Sydney Roosters Women and Gold Coast Titans Women in the NRLW.

The Tonga women's national rugby league team, is under the former governing body TNRL. The first Tonga women's team was in 2003 and known as the Mate Ma'a Tonga women's team administered by the Tonga National Rugby League (TNRL) body. The newly formed Tonga women's national rugby league incorporated is under the Tongan Government with the national men's team. TNRL are no longer the national administrating body for Tonga Rugby League.

Gavin Badger was an Australian rugby league referee in the National Rugby League. He controlled over 300 NRL matches.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ben Cummins</span> Australian rugby league referee

Ben Cummins is an Australian former rugby league referee for the National Rugby League.

Simaima Taufa-Kautai is a rugby league footballer who plays as a lock for the Canberra Raiders in the NRL Women's Premiership and Mounties RLFC in the NSWRL Women's Premiership.

Ngatokotoru Arakua is a New Zealand rugby league footballer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">NRL Women's Premiership</span> Australasian rugby league football competition

The Telstra NRL Women's Premiership (NRLW) is Australia's national rugby league competition for female players. The first season of the league began in September 2018 with four teams. The league is run by the National Rugby League (NRL) and is contested by a subset of clubs from that competition. The current premiers are the Newcastle Knights.

Belinda Sharpe née Sleeman is an Australian rugby league referee and former journalist, and is the first woman to referee a first-grade match in the National Rugby League (NRL).

Madison Bartlett is a New Zealand rugby league footballer who plays as a winger for the Canberra Raiders in the NRL Women's Premiership.

Georgia Hale is a New Zealand rugby league footballer who plays for the Gold Coast Titans in the NRLW.

Annetta-Claudia Nu'uausala is a New Zealand rugby league footballer who plays for the Brisbane Broncos in the NRL Women's Premiership.

The 2021 NRLW premiership was the fourth professional season of Women's rugby league in Australia. The season was planned to start in August 2021, postponed to October 2021 and further postponed to 2022 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The 2022 NRLW Premiership was the fifth professional season of Women's rugby league in Australia. The season started on Saturday, 20 August and ran for seven weekends. This comprised five rounds, semi-finals for the top four teams, and a Grand Final that was played on Sunday 2 October as a curtain raiser to the 2022 men's Grand Final. This was the last season before the NRLW goes professional.

Francesca Goldthorp is an England international dual-code rugby footballer who plays for North Queensland Cowboys in the NRL Women's Premiership primarily as a fullback. Previously she played for Leeds Rhinos in the RFL Women's Super League where she predominantly played at centre or wing.

Rochelle Tamarua is a New Zealand rugby league referee. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Tamarua is of Maori and Cook Island descent.

The 2023 NRLW Premiership was the sixth professional season of Women's rugby league in Australia. As announced in March 2022 by the governing body, the National Rugby League, the number of teams increased from six to ten.
The duration of the season was confirmed by the NRL in a media release on 14 February 2023 as nine rounds followed by semi-finals and a Grand Final.

The 2023 Newcastle Knights season was the 36th in the club's history. Coached by Adam O'Brien and co-captained by Jayden Brailey and Kalyn Ponga, they competed in the NRL's 2023 Telstra Premiership, finishing the regular season in 5th place, thus reaching the finals. The Knights made it to the second week of finals, before being knocked out by the New Zealand Warriors.

Tiana Raftstrand-Smith is a professional rugby league footballer who currently plays for the North Queensland Cowboys in the NRL Women's Premiership.

References

  1. ↑ "Kasey Badger (referee)". www.rugbyleagueproject.org. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  2. ↑ "Badger of honour: NRL referee Kasey Badger reflects on choosing the whistle over the ball". SBS. 5 May 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  3. ↑ "Badger and Sleeman earn full-time NRL contracts". The Women's Game. 8 May 2019. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  4. ↑ "Klein, Badger ready to play their part in Grand Final showpiece". National Rugby League. 27 September 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  5. ↑ "Happy anniversary Mrs Badger, we're refereeing an international today". the Guardian. 20 October 2012. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  6. ↑ Costello, Tim (23 June 2022). "PREVIEW: New Zealand v Tonga Women's International". League Unlimited. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  7. ↑ "World Cup match officials revealed including top Super League referees". TotalRL.com. 5 October 2022.
  8. ↑ "Kasey Badger to become first woman to referee at men's Rugby League World Cup". the Guardian. 20 October 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  9. ↑ "Foran scores three as Titans edge gallant Bulldogs". National Rugby League. 3 September 2023. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.