St George Illawarra’s Kezie Apps on fire for NRL Women’s Premiership against Broncos
It’s certainly a career highlight to be named Female Player of the Year at the 2016 Dally M Awards but for Kezie Apps, winning an NRL Women’s Premiership for St George Illawarra Dragons against Brisbane Broncos on Sunday will be the ultimate.
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Being named Female Player of the Year at the 2016 Dally M Awards was a career highlight for Kezie Apps.
Winning an NRL Women’s Premiership for St George Illawarra Dragons when they take on the Brisbane Broncos at ANZ Stadium on Sunday will hopefully be another.
“It would mean the world to me,” Apps told Confidential ahead of tonight’s awards. “Winning the Dally M was a career highlight for sure, as is making it to the grand final this weekend.”
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Apps, 28, will take a break from training to walk the red carpet at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion on Wednesday night to celebrate the best in the game, both male and female, at the Dally M Awards.
“There are so many more girls wanting to play rugby league now,” she said. “There’s been a lot of females before who have done all the hard yards for us to be in this position now and we are still paving the way for the younger generation to come through. They are going to hopefully be able to play in the same sort of competition and be paid as full time athletes as well.”
Asked her advice for young women coming through the ranks aspiring to play professionally, she said: “They’ve got female athletes to look up to now in rugby league where a lot of us only really had males to look up to so it wasn’t really something we could ever dream of or envision ourselves playing.
“Now these young girls can actually see women playing rugby league at that level and they can aspire to be just like us when they are older. My advice is to strive for it because playing rugby league has been the best decision I’ve ever made.”
Originally published as St George Illawarra’s Kezie Apps on fire for NRL Women’s Premiership against Broncos
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