Amber Pilley (born 8 December 1997) was an Australian
rugby league footballer who played for the
Brisbane Broncos in the
NRL Women's Premiership and
Burleigh Bears in the
QRL Women's Premiership
The QRL Women's Premiership, known as the BMD Premiership due to sponsorship from BMD Group, is the top level of women's rugby league football in Queensland, Australia. Run by the Queensland Rugby League, the competition is Queensland's first s ...
. Primarily a , she was a
Queensland representative.
Background
Born in
Campbelltown, New South Wales, Pilley moved to the
Gold Coast, Queensland
The Gold Coast is a coastal city in the state of Queensland, Australia, approximately south-southeast of the centre of the state capital Brisbane. With a population over 600,000, the Gold Coast is the sixth-largest city in Australia, the nati ...
with her family when she was two. She played junior rugby league for the
Nerang Roosters and is of
Indigenous descent.
Playing career
In 2014, Pilley represented Australia in
rugby sevens at the
2014 Summer Youth Olympics
The 2014 Summer Youth Olympics (), officially known as the II Summer Youth Olympic Games , and commonly known as Nanjing 2014 ( zh, c=南京2014, p=Nánjīng Èr Líng yī sì), were the second Summer Youth Olympic Games, an international sports ...
, winning a gold medal.
In 2015, she represented the
Indigenous All Stars. That year, she tore her
anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) ruling her out for 12 months.
In 2017, Pilley joined the
Burleigh Bears and represented the
Indigenous All Stars.
In June 2018, she played for South East Queensland at the Women's National Championships. In August 2018, she joined the
Brisbane Broncos NRL Women's Premiership team.
In Round 1 of the
2018 NRL Women's season
The 2018 NRL Women's Premiership (NRLW) was the first season of professional women's rugby league in Australia.
Teams
Pre-season
Only two of the four sides, the Brisbane Broncos and New Zealand Warriors, took part in pre-season trial games. T ...
, Pilley made her debut for the Broncos in a 30–4 win over the St George Illawarra Dragons. On 30 September 2018, she started at in the Broncos' 34–12 Grand Final win over the Sydney Roosters.
On 21 June 2019, Pilley made her debut for
Queensland, starting at in their 4–14 loss to New South Wales women's rugby league team, New South Wales. On 6 October 2019, Pilley won her second NRLW Grand Final, starting at in a 30–6 win over the St George Illawarra Dragons.
In 2020, Pilley missed the entire season after tearing her ACL, medial collateral ligament (MCL) and Meniscus (anatomy), meniscus.
References
External links
Burleigh Bears profile
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1997 births
Living people
Australian female rugby league players
Brisbane Broncos (NRLW) players
Indigenous Australian rugby league players
Queensland Rugby League State of Origin Women players
Rugby league centres
Rugby sevens players at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
Rugby league players from Sydney
Sportswomen from New South Wales