Stay up to date on all the St George Illawarra Dragons’ signings for their 2023 24-woman squad ahead of the club's sixth NRL Telstra Women's Premiership campaign.
The NRLW season will commence on July 22. View the 2023 NRLW draw here.
Bobbi Law
Hailing from the central coast, Law has established herself as an elite player in the NRL Women's Premiership. Primarily a centre, she is a Prime Minister's XIII and Indigenous All Stars representative, having previously played for the Sydney Roosters and Newcastle Knights.
Born: June 4, 1997
Position: Centre
Renee Targett
Targett has walked a sporting path unlike many others in the rugby league world as a long-term Australian American Football representative. New South Wales Origin's 18th woman in 2021 is still relatively new to rugby league but has taken to rugby league like a duck to water at either halfback, hooker or wherever coach Jamie Soward requires her. Targett outside of footy works as a facilitator of employment skills (education and training).
Born: October 28, 1994
Position: Utility
Tara McGrath-West
McGrath-West was the Dragons' final signing for the 2022 campaign after impressing club hierarchy following her show-stealing performances in North Sydney Bears' Harvey Norman NSW Women's Premiership finals campaign. Front-rower McGrath-West hails from the South Western Slopes region of New South Wales having only been introduced to the game five years ago.
Born: June 26, 2001 (aged 21)
Position: Prop
Sara Sautia
Sautia is a Queensland Under 19 State of Origin representative, and will be playing in her third NRLW season after debuting for the Broncos in 2021. The backrow or middle forward had a solid 2021 season, featuring in all 6 games, and after coming off the bench in all but one will be working hard to earn a spot in the starting side in 2022.
Born: August 21, 2002
Position: Backrow or middle
Cortez Te Pou
Position: Centre
Angelina Teakaraanga Katoa
A front rower and lock who features for the ladder-leading North Sydney Bears in the Harvey Norman Women's Premiership, Angeline Teakaraanga-Kotoa is an exciting signing for the side in 2023.
Born: March 10, 2002
Position: Middle
Cheynoah Amone
A versatile back rower and outside back, Amone rounds out the Dragons squad for her debut NRLW season in 2023.
The cousin of Dragons five-eighth Junior Amone, she comes to the club fresh off an impressive Harvey Norman Women’s Premiership campaign with the Bulldogs.
Born: November 16, 2000
Position: Centre or second row
Jamilee Bright
A savvy back rower, Bright joins the Dragons coming off a strong Harvey Norman Women’s Premiership campaign with the Bears.
The 25-year-old has spent the past three state seasons with the Bears and will look to prove herself a leader of the Dragons’ refurbished forward pack when she takes the field this season.
Born: December 29, 1997
Position: Forward
Raecene McGregor
Raecene McGregor was a Dragon for our inaugural season in 2018 but departed to join the Broncos and Roosters in 2019-22. The talented halfback was pivotal in New Zealand's big win over Tonga during the NRL's Representative Round in 2022, and finished the year with the honour of being crowned the 2022 NRLW Dally M Medalist.
Born: October 23, 1997
Position: Halfback
Alexis Tauaneai
Position: Middle
Keele Browne
Browne is a great lesson in perseverance for aspiring Women's Premiership players. Originally from the Milton-Ulladulla region, Browne spent three years regularly travelling to the Illawarra to fulfil her Tarsha Gale Cup Illawarra Steelers obligations. An inaugural member of the Dragons Academy, Browne moved to Wollongong in 2022 to study a Bachelor of Exercise Science at University of Wollongong and continue her rugby league journey where she made her NRLW debut and featured in the Red V's grand final defeat. She also works part-time with the Dragons' events and game day team.
Born: August 16, 2002
Position: Wing/centre
Kaarla Cowan
Position: Hooker, lock
Maddison Weatherall
Born: September 10, 2001
Position: Middle forward
Margot Vella
Born: April 11, 1999
Position: Outside back
Ella Kosta
Position: Middle, edge forward
Zali Hopkins
Exciting young talent Hopkins will be hoping her NRLW career follows the same trajectory as her other sporting endeavours to date. It was her success playing OzTag and rugby sevens which led Hopkins to rugby league in 2018 and now with a chance to play NRLW just four years later. The talented playmaker returns to the Dragons after making her debut last year.
Born: June 2, 2002
Position: Five-eighth
Macie Carlile
Sophie Clancy
Position: Hooker
Teagan Berry
Berry was forced to balance her commitment to the Dragons' NRL Women's Premiership efforts with her HSC throughout the 2020 season but was duly awarded an NRLW debut in the Dragons' final game of the season. The mid-North Coast native is now based in Shellharbour. An Illawarra Steelers' Tarsha Gale minor and major premiership winner, Berry secured a permanent spot in the Dragons' backline in 2021. Berry is one of four contracted NRLW players who took part in the inaugural Female Dragons Academy in 2021. Proving her career trajectory is on the right track, Berry was selected as a squad member in the 2022 NSW Origin squad. Outside of football, Berry is a service assistant, is studying nursing and has previously competed at a national level in athletics.
Born: May 20, 2002
Position: Wing
Roxy Murdoch-Masila
Born: August 10, 1992
Position: Second row
Taylor-Adeline Mapusua
Born: June 7, 1998
Position: Centre/wing
Shenai Lendill
Tayla Curtis
Sarah Riordan
Position: Forward
Born: June 16, 1992
Indie Bostock
Tyla Nathan-Wong
Born: July 1, 1994
Position: Playmaker
Tyla Nathan-Wong was a New Zealand professional rugby sevens representative and two-time Olympic medalist. She became a silver medalist at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and won a gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
2023 NRLW Development squad:
- Ferris Sandboe
- Bronte Wilson
- Madison Mulhall
- Kasey Reh
