At Canberra Stadium this evening, there will be young girls among the spectators eagerly watching the Wallaroos play Scotland.<\/p>\n
They will be cheering on their heroes and dreaming of playing for the national women’s rugby team, proving Chancellor has taken giant steps in accomplishing her mission.<\/p>\n
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Inspiring young fans has been at the forefront of Emily Chancellor’s mind. (Getty Images: Robbie Stephenson)<\/p>\n
“You can’t be what you can’t see,” Chancellor told ABC Sport on the eve of her Test farewell.<\/p>\n
“I feel like that is something that has driven me so hard; to want to keep playing and pushing the image of the Wallaroos to a wider audience.<\/p>\n
“I feel like I’ve had a positive impact on that over the last eight years. I love seeing the kids in the crowd, with their parents, excited.<\/p>\n
“What excites me is that there has been so much growth when I look back over the last eight years, considering where I was when I was a kid and the visibility of the game in the women’s world [at the time].<\/p>\n
“It’s come so far. I’m really proud of where we’ve got to and how many young girls are turning up to games.”<\/p>\n
Tight bond<\/p>\n
After 42 Tests, Chancellor will leave the game as a Wallaroos great.<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old appeared in two World Cups and captained the team during the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
A stellar domestic career with the NSW Waratahs and stints playing club rugby in the UK and Japan are also among her most cherished experiences.<\/p>\n
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Emily Chancellor captained the Wallaroos in 2025. (Getty Images: Darrian Traynor)<\/p>\n
Aside from her on-field achievements, nothing means more to Chancellor than the tight bond she enjoys with her Wallaroos teammates.<\/p>\n
She describes the close-knit squad as a “sisterhood”.<\/p>\n
“We’re all struggling or thriving with the challenges rugby faces, particularly in the women’s space,” said Chancellor, who will start at openside flanker against Scotland.<\/p>\n
“Be it pay, the lack of professionalism, or the striving for both of those things, I think that bonds you together massively.”<\/p>\n
‘Limitless’ future<\/p>\n
The Wallaroos’s semi-professional status has made it difficult for the squad to compete with the likes of England and New Zealand, both of which benefit from having full-time programs.<\/p>\n
The Wallaroos are in the process of becoming full-time in the build-up to the 2029 World Cup, which will be hosted by Australia.<\/p>\n
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Emily Chancellor made her Test debut against New Zealand in 2018. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Chancellor believes the team’s opportunities will be “limitless” when this is finally achieved.<\/p>\n
“You see how much natural ability the girls have, how much we do with so little in terms of game time at the moment,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I get excited by what Rugby Australia did with the Aussie women’s sevens team when they went full-time.<\/p>\n
“A bit more hard work and time together \u2026 wow, I think it will be exciting.”<\/p>\n
Chancellor will be enjoying retirement once the next World Cup rolls around, but her commitment to the Wallaroos’s cause shows no signs of diminishing.<\/p>\n
The drive to increase visibility of the Wallaroos and women’s rugby will remain.<\/p>\n
“We’ve still got a long way to go, and I don’t plan on letting up on that goal of making it as visible as possible when I step away from playing,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Emily Chancellor runs out for her final Test, she will know she has fulfilled one of her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[41691,64,63,20239,1793,760,2633,15131,5994,85,19259],"class_list":["post-937348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-41691","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-emily-chancellor","tag-retirement","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-union","tag-rugby-world-cup","tag-scotland","tag-sports","tag-wallaroos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937348","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=937348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}