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Wallaroos debutant brought to tears after brutal wait - CtrlF.XYZ

Wallaroos debutant brought to tears after brutal wait

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Maya Stewart says she shed a fewer tears upon learning she would beryllium making her Wallaroos debut astatine the Rugby World Cup.

The 22-year-old, who plays for the New South Wales Waratahs successful Super W, has had to hold for her clip to come.

For a while, she feared she mightiness ne'er play for the nationalist side. This year, she suffered her 3rd ACL injury, which threatened to derail her career.

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She was picked to play successful the Laurie O'Reilly Cup, but did not play successful either lucifer successful Christchurch oregon Adelaide.

Now, Stewart is acceptable to commencement erstwhile Australia look Scotland connected Saturday successful Whangarei.

"It was beauteous emotional," said Stewart.

"I decidedly shed a fewer tears with the girls. Super excited."

For the fresh-faced Newcastle-born player, a affirmative mindset was cardinal to not losing show of her ambition.

"I deliberation it was astir knuckling down astatine the start, getting the country done quickly, and past benignant of mounting an extremity end but not putting each of my eggs successful 1 basket," she explained.

"If I got here, I got here. Obviously, I've worked truly hard and Jay [Tregonning, caput coach] and the squad person got astir me. I'm here.

"I deliberation having a truly bully enactment network, family, and my fellow successful Sydney, but evidently the squad arsenic good and having KB (Kylie Baldwin), our physio successful Sydney, was awesome.

"It's beauteous peculiar to me. It's thing I've wanted to bash for a agelong time, to yet get the accidental to bash that is amazing."

Stewart has had a roundabout way to the Rugby World Cup having played league and interaction arsenic a teenager.

It was lone erstwhile her household encouraged her to prosecute playing national and she saw the Wallaroos astatine the 2016 variation of the Rugby World Cup that her involvement piqued.

"I didn't play rugby increasing up," said Stewart.

"I played a full heap of sports. I deliberation seeing the girls successful 2016 was a large eye-opener for me.

"Dad played footy increasing up and truthful did the remainder of my family. Seeing that and they were like, 'Why don't you springiness it a go?'

"So, yet got down determination successful 2018 and played a tourney and person ne'er looked back."

Australia and Scotland volition spell head-to-head astatine 1pm (AEDT) connected Saturday with unrecorded sum ad-free and exclusively connected Stan Sport.

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