Tara-Jane Stanley is an English

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...

footballer who plays as a for York Valkyrie in the Womens Super League. She has played at representative level for

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, and club level for

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and

Castleford Tigers Women The Castleford Tigers Women are a female rugby league club in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England, that competes in the Women's Super League, the top-level Women's rugby league club competition in the United Kingdom. Nicknamed the Tigresses, the ...

. She was in the running for the inaugural

Woman of Steel The Woman of Steel (known as the Telegraph Woman of Steel for sponsorship reasons) is an award in English rugby league. It is awarded to the player of the year in the Women's Super League; the winner is determined by a poll of the players in t ...

award in 2018, but lost out to

Castleford Tigers The Castleford Tigers are a professional rugby league club in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England, that compete in the Super League, the top-level professional rugby league club competition in the Northern Hemisphere. The club have competed ...

teammate Georgia Roche. Stanley began her rugby career playing for Moorfield Angels. She played for the English national team at the

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and

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. In 2018, Stanley was Player of the Match as England beat France 54-4 in Carcassonne. Stanley won the 2022

Award.

Test match appearances

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RFL introduce “Woman of Steel” awardWoman of Steel: Lois Forsell, Tara-Jane Stanley and Georgia Roche on shortlist
Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Castleford Tigers Women players Place of birth missing (living people) English female rugby league players England women's national rugby league team players Rugby league fullbacks Rugby league players from Widnes York Valkyrie players {{England-rugbyleague-bio-stub