Hilda Peters (born 9 August 1983) is a New Zealand rugby league footballer who plays for the New Zealand Warriors in the

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. Primarily a er, she is a New Zealand representative.

Background

Born in Auckland, Peters began playing rugby league when she was 19. Her younger sisters,

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and Kahurangi, are also New Zealand Test representatives. Peters, who is of

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descent, has a

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(a traditional Māori face tattoo) and is fluent in te reo.

Playing career

On 9 November 2014, Peters made her debut for New Zealand in their 12–8 win over

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, playing alongside her sisters Rona and Kahurangi. In November 2017, she was a member of New Zealand's

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squad. On 2 December 2017, she started at in New Zealand's final loss to Australia. On 31 July 2018, she was named in the inaugural New Zealand Warriors

squad. In Round 1 of the

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, she made her debut for the Warriors, starting on the and scoring a try in a 10–4 win over the Sydney Roosters. Her try was the first ever try scored in the

. On 15 February 2019, she started on the for the

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in their 8–4 win over the Indigenous All Stars. In September 2020, Hale was one of five New Zealand-based Warriors' players to travel to Australia to play in the 2020 NRL Women's premiership. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the players had to quarantine for 14 days on entering Australia and 14 days on return to New Zealand when the season was completed.

Political career

In September 2022, Hilda Peters announced that she would be standing for a position for the Manurewa Local Board in the

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, as part of the Manurewa Action Team ticket. Peters was unsuccessful, polling 3,425 votes and placing eighteenth in a field of twenty-nine candidates. Peters contested the Māngere electorate during the

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as a

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candidate, and was also placed at 11 on Te Pāti Māori's

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. She came fourth place in Mangare, with 934 votes.

References

External links

NZ Warriors profile
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