{"id":294243,"date":"2025-11-19T06:26:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/294243\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T06:26:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:26:27","slug":"premiership-heroes-bring-trophies-home-as-tour-rolls-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/294243\/","title":{"rendered":"Premiership Heroes Bring Trophies Home as Tour Rolls On"},"content":{"rendered":"

Broncos NRL and NRLW Premiership winners Corey Jensen, Tamika Upton, Romy Teitzel and Brianna Clark have taken the 2025 trophies back to where their rugby league journeys began, as the Broncos Trophy Tour, Driven by Kia Tasman, continues across Queensland.<\/p>\n

The regional leg of the tour kicked off in Cairns on November 10 and has since travelled through Tully, Townsville, Bowen, Mackay, Sarina, Gladstone, Rockhampton, Blackwater and Emerald, with visits to local schools, Kia dealerships and junior rugby league clubs.<\/p>\n

Along the way, players reconnected with the communities that shaped them \u2014 from singing old school songs to catching up with former teachers, coaches and families.<\/p>\n


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Teitzel, who grew up in Tully, returned to Tully State High School before stopping in for lunch at her family\u2019s local IGA.<\/p>\n

She said bringing both trophies home was a moment she\u2019ll never forget.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrowing up in north Queensland as a kid, you only dream of seeing these things in real life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n


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Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would take an NRL and an NRLW trophy back to Tully.<\/p>\n


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\n\t\tRomy Teitzel
\n\t\tBroncos NRLW Premiership Winner
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\u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity to repay our families, our communities and everyone who has played a part in our journey.\u201d<\/p>\n


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Further south, Jensen visited his former schools \u2014 Ignatius Park College in Townsville and Queens Beach State School in Bowen \u2014 where students chanted his name as he walked in.<\/p>\n

He said returning home reminded him of how far he has come.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrowing up in Bowen, when you say you want to play in the NRL, a lot of people say you\u2019ve got Buckley\u2019s chance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat stuck with me from a young age and I wanted to prove a lot of people wrong, I had a lot of belief in myself, even through the ups and downs.<\/p>\n


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To come back and share those stories is special to me, and I hope the kids take something from it.<\/p>\n


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\n\t\tCorey Jensen
\n\t\tBroncos NRL Premiership Winner
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Clark was raised in Sarina, and had the opportunity to take the trophies back to her old school and local Club, the Sarina Crocodiles.<\/p>\n


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Meanwhile, Upton capped off a fairytale homecoming to the Broncos by joining the tour through central Queensland where her and fellow Bronco home comer – Ben Hunt – first grew their love for rugby league.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The trophies travelled to Rockhampton, Gladstone, Dingo, Blackwater, Emerald, Alpha, Barcaldine and finished the leg by joining an online class with the Longreach School of Distance Education.\u00a0<\/p>\n


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Upton said she hopes the tour inspires the next generation of central Queensland girls to chase their rugby league dreams.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe stopped in at the family servo, which was great, but the best part was seeing the kids \u2014 their faces light up when they see the trophy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n


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Everyone knows the talent that comes out of central Queensland, so I\u2019m really excited to see what the future holds.<\/p>\n


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\n\t\tBroncos NRLW Premiership Winner
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\u201cWomen\u2019s footy is growing year on year\u2026 we\u2019re hoping to see more CQ girls in the NRLW system.<\/p>\n

\u201cDriving past the Bluff Rabbitohs and seeing the Crushers\u2019 fields \u2014 it was really cool to see where it all began for me, it was very nostalgic.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Broncos Trophy Tour continues next week with stops in Dalby and Roma, with more details to be announced soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broncos NRL and NRLW Premiership winners Corey Jensen, Tamika Upton, Romy Teitzel and Brianna Clark have taken the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-294243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}