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Full name | Bree Chester | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia | 28 June 2002||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 171 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 72 kg (11 st 5 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Second-row | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: [1] As of 16 September 2023 |
Bree Chester (born 28 June 2002) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who currently plays for the North Queensland Cowboys in the NRL Women's Premiership.
A second-row or centre, she is an Indigenous All Stars representative.
Chester was born in Port Stephens, New South Wales and is of Indigenous Australian descent.[2] She played her junior rugby league for the Mallabula Panthers.[3]
In 2019, Chester played for the Penrith Panthers in the Tarsha Gale Cup.[4] In 2020 and 2021, she played for the Newcastle Knights Tarsha Gale side.[5][6]
In 2022, Chester played for the Knights in the NSWRL Women's Premiership and was a member of their NRLW squad.[7][8]
In February, Chester represented the Indigenous All Stars in their loss to the Māori All Stars.[9]
On 10 May, she signed a two-year contract with the North Queensland Cowboys.[10]
In Round 1 of the 2023 NRL Women's season, she made her NRLW debut, starting at second-row in a 16–6 loss to the Gold Coast Titans.[11] In Round 2, she scored her first NRLW try in a 31–20 win over the Newcastle Knights.[12]