Even though Buck, 32, like all her team-mates are playing at a Rugby League World Cup for the first time, it’s not the first time she has represented her country on the biggest stage. <\/p>\n
She’s played for Wales in two Touch Rugby World Cups in 2015 and 2019. <\/p>\n
“My first cap in touch rugby for Wales was actually against Samoa, funnily enough in Australia in 2015. It’s a bit of a full circle moment,” she explained.<\/p>\n
“I’ve also played in the European Championships with them as well. Unfortunately, I was injured for the last World Cup (in 2024), so I was a coach rather than a player.”<\/p>\n
Buck switched to rugby league during the Covid pandemic and hasn’t looked back since. <\/p>\n
She plays her club rugby for Cardiff Demons and played in Wales’ first ever Test match against England in 2021. <\/p>\n
“I just put a rugby CV through to the rugby league side of things and got asked to go for a trial,” Buck recalls. <\/p>\n
“I did also play rugby union so I wasn’t completely new to the physicality of the sport thankfully. I think the combination of my touch rugby career and my rugby union career fits perfectly for rugby league. <\/p>\n
“All the aspects of touch, all the aspects of union sort of merged in a way. It’s why I think my favourite code is probably rugby league.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even though Buck, 32, like all her team-mates are playing at a Rugby League World Cup for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-810003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}