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The BIG Interview: Emily Rudge

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Hello and welcome to HeRLeague, your home for all the women's Rugby League action and reaction.  One of the regular features I want to feature on the site involves big interviews with some of the main people connected to women's RL. For our first interview, you can't get much bigger than a national team captain. With this in mind, please welcome to HeRLeague, Emily Rudge of St. Helens and England.  Hi Emily, thank you for joining me on HeRLeague. First of all, how did you get into playing Rugby League? At what age did you decide you wanted to play the game?  'I got into Rugby League at primary school when I was ten years old. A teacher asked me to go along to a mixed tag tournament because they needed a token girl to enter a team. I really enjoyed playing tag and won the girl of the tournament award so I thought I would carry on and played for my school team and then my dad took me to the local under-11's boys team and absolutely loved it!'  Who were