As fullback I've got the whole team's back. Here, for the first time, I felt someone had mine too.
I was never the "sporty type" — always picked last at school. At my first training I stood at the very back of the pitch, where no one wants to be, and that's exactly where I found my place. The fullback sees the whole field, reads the game and sprints in when it matters most. In three years rugby league turned me from a girl who apologized for existing into a woman who is the last to let a ball get behind her.
“I was looking for a community and found sisters. Rugby league changed both my body and my confidence.”
Work was draining me and I had no circle of people outside the office. Now the team is my second home.
“You come to one training out of curiosity and stay for the team.”
I thought sport was behind me. The coaches guided me step by step, without a single judgmental look.
“For the first time in my life I feel indestructible. The pitch is the only place where I'm completely myself.”
As a teenager I was shy. Rugby league gave me a voice — on the pitch and off it.
At 14 I thought sport wasn't for me. Now I coach girls younger than me.
School signed me up for a trial training almost by chance. Three years later I'm still here, helping new girls get over the same fear I had on my first day.
Women's rugby league for every woman and girl in Serbia. Sport, sisterhood and a place where every woman has her position.