A BROKEN hand might have ruled Rhiani Rozga out of the 2020 Western Women's Rugby League season, but that didn't stop her from inspiring her Panorama Platypi team-mates.
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She still showed up to train with the under 16 Panorama Platypi, she still encouraged them on game day.
It was why Rozga was named the Panorama Platypi's most dedicated for season 2020 at the club's annual presentation day.
"She trained really well in the few weeks leading up to the start of the comp, but she played in her AFL grand final and busted her hand and then she couldn't play for us," under 16s coach Mick Roels said.
"She didn't get clearance until grand final day, we wanted to make it to the grand final so she could play but unfortunately we couldn't do that."
Rozga was set to be a key part of the Platypi's forward pack this season. Last year as she played rugby league for the first time she brought plenty of enthusiasm to her work in both defence and attack.
Though not able to use that same enthusiasm this season to make yards and cut down opponents, Rozga found a different way to help lift her team-mates.
"She was so dedicated to training, she missed one session with her hand because she had to go and see the specialist, but other than that she was at every training session," Roels said.
"She inspired all the girls, she was catching and passing with one arm because of her hand. So I made a drill that all the girls had to catch and pass with one hand, I said 'See if Rhi can do it, you all can do it'. That was a unique training session that one."
Rozga also traded her Platypi jumper for a fluro vest as Roels found yet another way for her to be involved with the squad.
"I asked her if she wouldn't mind doing her league safe so she could run the water for the girls so she could be part of the team and she was over the moon with that," the coach said.
"There was no doubt as to who we were going to give that award to, she turned up to more training sessions that half my team."