One of my biggest challenges with rugby has got to be appearance. I’ve always been comparing myself to the looks of other people which play the same position as me. I play full back and wing. They’re usually muscular and obviously taller and stronger, which I’m not. So I always think I’m not strong enough for the positions I play or I’m not fast enough and I’m always comparing myself because I never always play those positions.
I used to play a different position because I didn’t like the way I looked or I didn’t think I was fast enough or strong enough and now that I’m actually in a position I like it’s still taking time for me to get into it.
It’s only just going into this season that I’ve actually started to feel accepted the way that I play, the way that I look when I play, because it’s taken me to move to a completely different college to get that feeling of enjoyment back into the sport.
