Team List: NRLW Round 1 vs Eels

Wests Tigers inaugural NRLW team features 13 players who were part of the club’s 2022 Harvey Norman Women’s Premiership squad, including co-captains Kezie Apps and Botille Vette-Welsh.

Campbelltown juniors Emily and Sophie Curtain were also part of that premiership-winning team from last year and will become the first twins to play NRLW.

Pauline Piliae-Rasabale is one of eight players in line to make her NRLW debut. The former Wallaroo has been handed the number six jersey for the season-opener against the Eels, with NSW Under 19s-star Losana Lutu named on the interchange bench.

Eighteen of the 22 players in the extended squad to face the Eels have played in Wests Tigers pathways teams.

Team List:

1. Botille Vette-Welsh - sponsored by Australian Track Services

2. Jakiya Whitfeld - sponsored by Village Florist 

3. Rikeya Horne - sponsored by Pro Wrestling Australia 

4. Leianne Tufuga - sponsored by Club Menangle 

5. Josie Lenaz - sponsored by Sydney West Furniture Repairs

6. Pauline Piliae-Rasabale - sponsored by Jamalle Homewares

7. Emily Curtain - sponsored by Georgiemane

8. Sarah Togatuki - sponsored by Zurich Insurance

9. Ebony Prior - sponsored by Forcast

10. Christian Pio - sponsored by Brydens Lawyers

11. Kezie Apps - sponsored by LC Wealth

12. Eliza Siilata - sponsored by Exclusive Estate Agents

13. Najvada George - sponsored by Tidda Workforce

Interchange:

14. Sophie Curtain - sponsored by KFC

15. Losana Lutu - sponsored by FAB Industrial Logistics

16. Taylor Osborne - sponsored by Wests Tigers Foundation

17. Folau Vaki - sponsored by Wests Tigers Foundation

Reserves:

18. Jessica Kennedy - sponsored by Wests Tigers Foundation

19. Rebecca Pollard - sponsored by Wests Tigers Foundation

20. Bianca Bennetts - sponsored by Wests Tigers Foundation

21. Salma Nour - sponsored by Wests Tigers Foundation

22. Imogen Gobran - sponsored by Wests Tigers Foundation