2025 ASSRL Nationals: Meet every player picked in the Australian Schoolgirls team
It’s a team full of power and precision. Meet all 18 players picked in the Australian Schoolgirls team and find out which NRLW clubs have them locked up. SEE THE LIST.
Rugby League Live Stream
Don't miss out on the headlines from Rugby League Live Stream. Followed categories will be added to My News.
Australian selectors have picked an exciting line-up of future NRLW talent following a big week of action at the ASSRL Under-18 National Championships.
The Australian Schoolgirls side is jam-packed with talent, with most of the squad already contracted or aligned with NRL clubs across the country.
The squad was hand-picked by a team of national selectors on deck in Coffs Harbour following a week in which the girls played four games across five days.
MISSED ANY OF THE ACTION AT THE ASSRL NATIONALS? USE OUR ASSRL HUB TO RE-WATCH EVERY DAY’S ACTION
The Australian Schoolgirls side will be coached by ex-Jillaroo Patricia Raikadroku while Karra-Lee Nolan will manage the team.
The side will play against a Papua New Guinea national side as part of the annual Prime Minister’s XIII trip later this year.
Meet every member of the Australian Schoolgirls squad below.
1. Mia Vaotu’ua
Team: NSW CIS
School: Central Coast Sports College
NRLW affiliation: Roosters
The Lisa Faiola Cup player of the year brought her impressive form into the ASSRL National championships. Her speed off the mark and natural ball-playing ability made her a threat all week for the NSW CIS side. The Central Coast Sports College fullback is part of the Roosters Central Coast academy.
2 Gabriella Savage
Team: ACT
School: Dickson College
NRLW affiliation: Raiders
The younger sister of electric Raiders winger Xavier Savage, Gabriella moved in with her brother last year to chase her NRLW dream in the nation’s capital. Battled a lower leg injury all week, but didn’t let it stop her from playing her guts out for the ACT.
3. Halle Barrett
Team: NSW CCC
School: Corpus Christi Catholic HS
NRLW affiliation: Dragons
The daughter of Dragons legend Trent Barrett, Barrett made a massive impact out wide for the NSW Combined Catholic Colleges side this week. A centre by trade, the hard-running Barrett is deeply entrenched in the impressive Steelers women’s pathways system.
4. Anastasia Leatupue
Team: NSW CHS
School: The Hills Sports High
NRLW affiliation: Roosters
The Roosters Tarsha Gale Cup star was brilliant all week for the champion NSW CHS side. Leatupue split her time between centre and fullback and showed her class with the ball in hand as part of a lethal sky blue backline. The Roosters young gun will now return to Hills Sports High to spearhead a national title quest.
5. Logan Fletcher
Team: NSW CHS
School: Matraville Sports High
NRLW affiliation: Roosters
Fresh off her selection in the NSW Under-19s Origin side, the Roosters flyer was impressive at the back for the NSW CHS side. Fletcher possesses an impressive top speed and elusive footwork at the line.
6. Skye Spencer
Team: NSW CCC
School: Holy Spirit College
NRLW affiliation: Dragons
The Dragons pathways junior was on fire to start the week in Coffs Harbour. Her fancy footwork and eyes up style caused havoc for opposition defences. Spencer is part of the Illawarra Steelers Lisa Faiola Cup set-up.
7. Torah Luadaka
Team: Queensland
School: Keebra Park SHS
NRLW affiliation: Titans
The Future Titans playmaker was named Queensland’s player of the carnival and almost inspired a brilliant come-from-behind win in the final. She spent time at both five-eighth and fullback for the week, but showed her ability to play first receiver and lead the Queensland team around the park.
8. Ella Walker
Team: NSW CHS
School: The Hills Sports High
NRLW affiliation: Wests Tigers
The barnstorming front-rower was named to start off the bench in the first game, but it didn’t last as Walker forced her way into a bruising NSW CHS starting pack. The Tigers’ junior only knows one way and one speed, and it’s forward at full ball. Walker was part of the NSW Under-19 Origin squad this year.
9. Diamond Graham
Team: Queensland
School: Keebra Park SHS
NRLW affiliation: Titans
The Keebra Park talent capped off a massive first half of the year with selection in the Australian Schoolgirls. Graham, who was player of the match in the QRL Under-17 City-Country clash earlier this year, made an immediate impact every time she came off the bench for Queensland. The Titans pathways player provides crisp service and will tackle anything that moves.
10. Mamele Misa
Team: Queensland
School: Mabel Park SHS
NRLW affiliation: Broncos
A year after her sister Amanii Misa bulldozed her way into the Australian Schoolgirls side, Mamele joins her after a dominant performance leading the Queensland forward pack. Tough as nails, but also remarkably agile for her size, Misa makes short work of opposition middle defenders. She is equally adept at running a crash line into the defence or slicing her way through a hole.
11. Stella Lewis
Team: NSW CCC
School: Newman Senior College
NRLW affiliation: Knights
The Port Macquarie Sharks junior was signed to a three-year development deal with the Knights NRLW squad last year, and she is showing just why they showed faith in the 16-year-old. Lewis ran strong lines off her halves all week, and possesses a left-arm fend that would ask plenty of questions of players twice her age.
12. Deleni Paitai
Team: Queensland
School: Marsden SHS
NRLW affiliation: Broncos
When it comes to impressive hole runners there were few as good as Paitai. The Queensland backrower was strong all week for the Maroons almost inspiring her side to the national title on Friday. While she has spent the past year in the Redcliffe Dolphins junior system, Paitai signed an NRLW deal with the Broncos last month which will have her start at Red Hill in 2026.
13. Amanii Misa
Team: Queensland
School: Mabel Park SHS
NRLW affiliation: Broncos
Misa is the only second-time player in this year’s Australian Schoolgirls squad after her selection last year. The Broncos NRLW development player has star power written all over her. She makes an impact with and without the ball, and was a linchpin in Queensland’s run to the final. Misa was part of Queensland’ Under-19s Origin squad.
14. Evelyn Roberts
Team: Queensland
School: Marsden SHS
NRLW affiliation: Bulldogs
In her first year at the Under-18 championships, Roberts made aqn immediate impact for the Queenslanders. A big-bodied halfback, she is just as adept at ball-playing out the back as she is carrying the ball through the line. The Marsden State High student has signed with a development deal with the Bulldogs NRLW squad for next year and was part of their Lisa Faiola Cup side this year.
15. Felila Fakalelu
Team: NSW CHS
School: Westfields Sports High
NRLW affiliation: Sharks
Talk about destruction. The NSW CHS prop had defences skittling with her strong carries and tough work in defence. The head-gear clad front rower was a ball of energy in every game, and has a motor that defies her explosive style. Fakalelu scored two tries to inspire NSW CHS to victory in Friday’s final, earning player of the match honours. She is the reigning females pathways player of the year at the Sharks.
16. Emily McArthur
Team: NSW CCC
School: St Francis Xavier’s College
NRLW affiliation: Knights
The Knights-contracted middle forward was strong in every game across the week for NSW Combined Catholic Colleges. The reigning Knights’ Lisa Faiola Cup player of the year didn’t shirk the tough stuff through the middle and is one of the most defensively-sound players in her age group.
17. Aliahana Fuimaono
Team: NSW CHS
School: The Hills Sports High
NRLW affiliation: Bulldogs
The tough as nails second rower was a big part of NSW CHS run to the national title decider. Fuimaono relishes the physicality of the forward pack, but still has the speed and agility to mix it with the players outside her. She hit like a freight train all week and had opposition forwards running to the other side of the ruck. Fuimaono is locked up tight in the Bulldogs pathways.
18. Stevie Botham
Team: NSW CCC
School: St Mary’s Catholic College
NRLW affiliation: Knights
The Knights Lisa Faiola Cup flyer was unlucky to miss out on a starting wing spot in the side after her brilliant work on the right wing for NSW CCC. Botham has an uncanny knack to turn up at the right place, at the right time and knows how to find the tryline.
Originally published as 2025 ASSRL Nationals: Meet every player picked in the Australian Schoolgirls team