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Charlotte Caslick’s career has always felt like it was moving faster than anyone could keep up with. One moment she was a teenager playing for The Tribe at club level, the next she was pulling on the green and gold, barely out of high school and already making defenders look like they were running through wet cement. When she debuted for Australia in 2013, she looked more like a kid chasing a dream than a future superstar. But by the end of 2015, with 13 caps and 31 tries to her name, people had stopped whispering her potential and started declaring it. Some even called her the best women’s sevens player on the planet. Others, a cornerstone of the team chasing Olympic gold in Rio. And honestly, none of it felt like hype.

What made her rise even more striking was how naturally she moved between sports. Caslick wasn’t just a rugby talent; she was a dual international, slipping between touch football and rugby sevens like they were two dialects of the same language. She’d already stood out at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival, impressed at the 2013 Rugby Sevens World Cup, and represented Touch Football Australia at both youth and open levels. By the 2014–15 season, the rugby world couldn’t look away. She landed in World Rugby’s Team of the Season and became one of only four players nominated for World Sevens Player of the Year. Tournament after tournament, people expected brilliance from her—and she kept delivering.

Then came Rio in 2016. If you watched Australia’s women’s sevens team sweep through those games, you probably remember the moment they toppled New Zealand in the final. It wasn’t just a win; it was history, the first Olympic gold ever awarded in the sport. Caslick was right in the middle of it, steady as stone in a storm. A few months later, Australia named her their women’s sevens player of the year, a recognition that felt more like confirmation than surprise.

She kept pushing. She kept showing up. She made the 2020 Olympic squad too, but sport can be cruel, even to the brightest. Australia finished second in their pool in Tokyo before running into Fiji in a quarterfinal that still stings—a tight 14–12 loss that ended their medal hopes. For someone who hates standing still, the disappointment must have burned. But she didn’t linger on it. That’s the thing about Caslick—she moves forward.

By 2024, she was chosen to lead Australia’s sevens squad into the Paris Olympics, another chapter, another chance to rewrite a story that never really stops growing. And then, almost as if she wanted to remind the world she wasn’t done reinventing herself, she made her international fifteens debut for the Wallaroos in May 2025 against Fiji. A new code, a new jersey, another mountain to climb. She was slated for the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup in England, but fate intervened again: ankle surgery, a recovery that just wouldn’t come fast enough, and finally the announcement on 11 August that she’d miss the tournament. Manu’a Moleka stepped in, but the absence of Caslick felt like a pause in a song everyone wanted to keep hearing.

And then there’s the twist—rugby league. Back in 2020, when COVID shut down the World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series and the Tokyo Olympics slipped out of reach, Caslick didn’t spend her months waiting. She jumped codes, signing with the Sydney Roosters in the NRLW. It raised eyebrows, especially since she grew up a Cowboys fan and chose the Roosters over the Broncos, their fiercest rivals, but she seemed unfazed by the noise.

Her debut came in Round 1 of the 2020 season. She started at five-eighth, slicing through the Dragons’ line and running for 163 metres in an 18–4 win. It felt like the beginning of a new adventure—until a week later, everything stopped. In Round 2 against the Warriors, she took a hit that resulted in two small fractures in her spine. Just like that, her season was over. One moment she was carving up the field, the next she was sidelined, reminded once again how thin the line is between momentum and heartbreak.

But if her career has taught us anything, it’s that Charlotte Caslick doesn’t stay down for long. She adapts. She rises. She keeps finding new ways to write chapters no one else sees coming.

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13/12/2025

By the time Stacey Waaka was 15, she already carried the kind of résumé most teenagers could only daydream about. A touch rugby youth international. A rising netball star. The kind of talent teachers whispered about in staff rooms, wondering just how far she might go. And if you had asked her then, she would’ve told you with absolute certainty that her future belonged to netball. Rugby? That was someone else’s dream.
Friends nudged her. Coaches dropped hints. But she brushed it off politely, the way you do when you think you already know your destiny. She wanted the black dress, the silver fern, the bright lights of the netball world. Nothing more, nothing less.
But sometimes life taps you on the shoulder in the quietest ways. For Waaka, it happened in 2012, sitting in front of a television when an ad flashed across the screen: rugby sevens was heading to the Olympics. Suddenly the game she had kept at arm’s length didn’t look so far from her dreams after all. What if this was another path to wearing black? What if this was the one chance to play sport full-time?
She still worried about tackling—who wouldn’t at 16?—but curiosity has a way of outweighing fear. So she joined 800 other young women at the “Go for Gold” trials, all of them hoping to be spotted, all of them chasing the possibility of Rio. The day was a blur of sprint tests, skill drills, and character evaluations. She impressed, no doubt. But she wasn’t ready to give away her final years of high school just yet. She wanted to be a teenager a little longer.
Rugby found its way back to her anyway. Two years later, running out for the Waikato women’s side in the Farah Palmer Cup, she was finally seen as the kind of athlete who could shift a game with a single touch. That led to invitations to sevens camps, and before long, the Black Ferns selectors were circling.
Then came the moment every New Zealand kid dreams about: the black jersey. Waaka made her debut for the Black Ferns XV against Canada in 2015—the same year her brother Beaudein pulled on the New Zealand sevens jersey for the first time. Not many families can say they shared a milestone like that.
From there, the rise was rapid. A year later she was in the women’s sevens development squad. In 2017 she returned to the fifteen-a-side team just in time to play eight crucial matches in the Black Ferns’ triumphant World Cup run. That same year, she quietly finished her degree at the University of Waikato, proving she wasn’t just a weapon on the field but a planner, a thinker—someone who could juggle the grind of elite sport with academics.
By 2018, she had become something else entirely: essential. With Portia Woodman sidelined by an Achilles injury, Waaka stepped into a role no one envies—replacing a superstar—and turned it into her own stage. Throughout the 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series she tore through defenses, crossing the line again and again until opponents flinched at the sight of her smile. The world began calling her “The Smiling Assassin,” a nickname she wore like a secret promise: danger wrapped in joy.
Dream Teams. Impact Player awards. Highlight reels that looped for weeks. She was everywhere.
And then the world stopped. The pandemic shuttered borders, tournaments, the rhythm of sevens life. Instead of waiting out the silence, she went home—back to Waikato, back to where the game first opened its door to her—and played seven matches in the 2020 Farah Palmer Cup. There was something poetic about it, returning to the place where the spark had first caught.
Her journey never unfolded in a straight line. It twisted, doubled back, surprised her. But every step—every hesitation, every breakthrough—led her toward the player the world now knows: fearless, joyful, and impossible to ignore.

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13/12/2025

“On my last year in Sacred Heart, we had a game where I scored 3 tries. That game was televised LIVE on Sky TV and it was on the news in various places. That’s when different clubs were interested in me. Although I was in New Zealand, my rugby heart was always with Australia. As a young boy, I was a big fan of the Wallabies, Quade Cooper, and I also knew many Tongans who were playing for them. My older brother was living in Queensland at the time also. Of all the teams interested in me, I thought I’d pick Queensland Reds. The funny thing is that I met the Reds manager at McDonald’s in Mangere to sign the contract. We laugh about that with my family because they say I’m always led by food. The manager bought me a Big Mac and I signed the contract to join the Reds. That journey wasn’t as easy as I thought. In Australia, I played as prop. You get to be someone in that position when you’re matured and well experienced and there was a lot of competition in Australia. My first year, I was in the back row of every team meeting because I didn’t understand a single thing that was said. Next thing you know, our Coach would ask me a question and I’d just sit quietly on the verge of crying and never answered. It took me a long time to be comfortable enough to share my thoughts or to even ask a question. But I learned best by doing. Some things taught didn’t make sense but when I got out to practice, everything made sense. I had gone to Australia with the thought that I would go straight and play in the Super Rugby but that wasn’t the case. There is a first team for the Reds, then a second team with reserves and then I was in the teams after that. You had to play for the clubs before you even get a chance to make it to the Reds. And I almost gave up. I tried in 2014, 2015, and 2016. Towards the end of 2016, I finally got an opportunity to play for the Reds at Super Rugby. One of the prop reserves in the team was injured that year. To my surprise, Coach told me to prepare to play that week. I cried. It had been 3 long years of training to get to this moment and I promised myself I’d grab this opportunity and go for it.” (2/4)

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