Juggling Joey, Abdo and gold medals: Meet the NRLW’s code-hopping teen star | Dan Walsh
Jesse Southwell is 17, has a gold medal at home, Andrew Johns in raptures and a “happy place” she needs to get away from.
NRL chief executive Andrew Abdo was similarly impressed by Southwell when they met recently. The conversation centred on the biggest challenge the highly touted teen has faced in her fledgling career.. “So it’s pretty easy to just be involved with footy a lot. But I’m trying to step away and find a hobby and not have my mind focused just on footy – that’s probably the hardest part.”
“She’s very headstrong, she won’t ever listen to what I’ve got to say and she’s our halfback,” Hannah deadpanned during the week.“At training she says a few things and I look over my shoulder and give her a few dirty looks ... but we’re all really excited for her to control the field. I haven’t really played with a halfback that [controls] a game so well.”
“I think what she’s done for the game and what she’s done for women in sport [as the first female player appointed to the RLPA board], it’s a really big deal. Since those summer sessions with Joey, she has travelled the world with Australia’s sevens side, played a gold medal match, met Abdo and plotted a code switch while on the other side of the globe.
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