Kanyon Paul

Kanyon Paul
Personal information
Born (1997-10-05) 5 October 1997 (age 27)
Hamilton, New Zealand
Height156 cm (5 ft 1 in)
Weight62 kg (9 st 11 lb)
Playing information
PositionHooker
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2019– New Zealand Warriors 5 0 0 0 0
2022– Richmond Rovers
Total 5 0 0 0 0
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2019 New Zealand 9s 3 1 0 0 4
2022 Akarana Falcons 3 1 0 0 4
Source: RLP
As of 10 November 2020

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.

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

  1. ^ "Kanyon goes with Warriors in grandfather's memory". Newsroom. 22 September 2020.
  2. ^ "Kanyon Paul". NZRL.
  3. ^ "Hireme's signing huge coup". NZ Warriors. 10 July 2019.
  4. ^ "First NRLW side of season named". NZ Warriors. 10 September 2019.
  5. ^ "World Cup winners for WNRL Nines". NZ Warriors. 10 February 2020.
  6. ^ "The historical island set to inspire fab five Warriors women". NRL. 13 September 2020.