Shontelle Stowers (born 14 November 1986) is a New Zealand-born Australian

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and

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who plays for the

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in the

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and the

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in the

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. She has played representative level rugby union for

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and Australia sevens and at club level for Warringah Rats, and representative level rugby league for

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and NSW City, and at club level for Cronulla-Caringbah, and in the NRL Women's Premiership for the Sydney Roosters Women, usually as a .

Playing career

Stowers moved to Australia at the age of 21 and played

for the Warringah Rats. While with the club she represented the Australian rugby sevens side and the

. In 2017, she switched to rugby league and played for Cronulla-Caringbah. In 2018, she was selected for the NSW City side for the National Championships. In February 2018, Stowers represented

at the

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. On 17 June 2018, Stowers signed for the

Sydney Roosters Eastern Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club, known as the Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs (Sydney), Eastern Suburbs. The club competes in the National Rugby Lea ...

as one of their 15 marquee signings. In Round 1 of the 2018 NRL Women's Premiership, Stowers made her debut for the

, starting at centre in their 10–4 loss to the

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. In May 2019, she represented NSW City at the 2019 Women's National Championships. On 8 June, she was named to make her debut for the

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State of Origin team. In 2020, Stowers joined the

, playing two games for the club that season.

References

External links

New Zealand Warriors profile
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