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<\/p>\n\u201cI fell in love with it, I loved the physicality and to showcase how strong I was as a kid,\u201d Enyi says.
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\u201cWe\u2019d always play on the nature strip. I perpetuated more than the boys and got deemed a bully because I\u2019d run into people and not spaces.\u201d
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Born and raised in Canberra, Enyi\u2019s cultural heritage represents Australia, Nigeria and the Caribbean, which is also how she and her brothers Amaeze, Ikenna and Ekwueme were named.
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Enyi found a passion for running and by high school became a national sprint champion in the 100m, 200m, long jump and triple jump events, while also taking up boxing. <\/p>\n
High school was where the ACT Brumbies forward found rugby though and the 24-year-old is now ready to make it her main priority after being selected in the Wallaroos extended squad for the first time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI started playing properly in 2015 when Canberra was introducing the junior girls competition,\u201d Enyi said.
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\u201cI\u2019ve always done multiple sports like athletics, netball, boxing and track, but this is the first time I\u2019ve turned my focused on the one sport.\u201d<\/p>\n
Enyi signed her first national contract with the Wallaroos in November and attended a training camp before Christmas as the new-look national squad begins preparations for the 2026 Test season.
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It was six months in the making for the tall back-rower, who was on the radar of national selectors in May before undergoing knee surgery that ruled her out of World Cup contention.
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\u201cI felt on the cusp at the end of Super W this year and being in talks with the Wallaroos coaches back then they were keen to get me in for pre-World Cup camps to see how I went,\u201d Enyi said.
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\u201cBut then having surgery pushed that all back. It was disappointing but coming in now at the start of a new World Cup cycle I know I\u2019ve got the maximum amount of time to prepare myself and show that I deserve to be there in 2029.
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\u201cI was so excited to be able to sign for 2026 and hopefully show what I can do. This is only the beginning for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Growing up in a household with three brothers who lived and breathed rugby, Chioma Enyi was left with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[58864,64,63,760,85,19259],"class_list":["post-424716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-act-brumbies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-wallaroos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424716","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=424716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}