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Schoolgirl ready for W Cup
WELLINGTON
Maying to the inaugural Worid
eeat scare New Zealand shco olglrl Neroli Knight reports SP
She 1* used to playing against boys many of uthom are nw«h older and bigger
Knight, a I6year-ald student at Hutt Valley High School outside Wellington is the youngest member at the 26 strong New Zealand squad named to compete la the World Cup to Cast* Wales , to
But the 63 kilogram (196 pound) I 7 meter (live foot Mx) Knight already has faced toughercompetition than any She la believed to be the only female in the world to have played tn a regular secondary school senior boys competition
She played every match for her school under 19 team last year and established herself as a top winger
'It was great I enjoyed it tliough ft was a lot harder and more physical than anything I had experienced before," Knight said
•A lot of people thought I would get M easy because I was the onh girl piling but they (boys) came at me hard every time
'1 think when they realized that I could stand up to them they came even harder I liad to give it back just as good and then the game would carry on
Hutt Valley High teacher Alan Sinclair who managed the school team last year spid Knight more than held her own against the boys in a country where rugby union is
■ShTLXtoiy didn't stand back and she certainly didn t let the boys down." Sinclair ■Md
■W0* started playing ru*>y arts broke a teg during a match. but M 1 dampen her
ways had the *T^slT of becoming an AU Mark " said her mother Neroli Edward. 1 get the flak all the time because I let her play with the boys but I allow her because I don't see anything wrong with ft’
The All-Blacks are New Zealand’s national men’s rugby union team and, the current World Cup champions.
Knight also plays softball ■ nd competes in mifidle-dtstance track and field events but rugby union is her
T just love running with the ball and getting through the defense Sometimes I get those crunching tackles and that just makes me want to go back harder at them." she said