Janai Haupapa

Janai Haupapa (born 14 March 1996) is a women's rugby union and rugby league footballer from Calgary, Alberta, Canada.[1] She plays for the Canada women's national rugby league team and has played for the Canada women's national rugby union team's development side as a centre.[2][3]

History

Haupapa plays rugby union for Calgary Rams RFC.[4] In 2015, she was called up to the Canada women's national rugby union development team for their tour of England and made her debut playing in the second row at Molesey Road in Hersham.[2][5]

In 2017, Haupapa switched codes to rugby league in order to join up with Canada's first ever women's national rugby league squad in time for the 2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup.[3] She along with the majority of the team were rugby union players with only one having played rugby league prior and Haupapa was still a member of Calgary Rams RFC at the time.[4][3] However during the tournament where she made her international rugby league debut, she was accused of biting the Australia women's national rugby league team captain Renae Kunst.[6] Despite support from Canada's coach Mike Castle,[7] Haupapa plead guilty to the charge and received a two match ban which meant that she missed Canada's semi-final match[8] and the rest of the tournament.[9] This was the fourth allegation of biting that had been levied at a player during the 2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup with the England women's national rugby league team and the Papua New Guinea women's national rugby league team players also being accused of biting.[10]

gollark: I wonder how hard/expensive it'd be to run your own channel on the satellite system if there are THAT many.
gollark: We have exciting TV like "BBC Parliament".
gollark: Analog TV got shut down here ages ago.
gollark: So I guess if you consider license costs our terrestrial TV is *not* free and costs a bit more than Netflix and stuff. Oops.
gollark: - it funds the BBC, but you have to pay it if you watch *any* live TV, or watch BBC content online- it's per property, not per person, so if you have a license, and go somewhere without a license, and watch TV on some of your stuff, you are breaking the law (unless your thing is running entirely on battery power and not mains-connected?)- it costs about twice as much as online subscription service things- there are still black and white licenses which cost a third of the priceBut the enforcement of it is even weirder than that:- there are "TV detector vans". The BBC refuses to explain how they actually work in much detail. With modern TVs I don't think this is actually possible, and they probably can't detect iPlayer use, unless you're stupid enough to sign up with your postcode (they started requiring accounts some years ago).- enforcement is apparently done by some organization with almost no actual legal power (they can visit you and complain, but not *do* anything without a search warrant, which is hard to get)- so they make up for it by sending threatening and misleading letters to try and get people to pay money

References
  1. "Janai Haupapa". Canada RLA. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  2. Maple Leafs ready for second England match (2015-12-04). "Maple Leafs ready for second England match". Americas Rugby News. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  3. Patrick Johnston (2017-09-20). "Canada gets its first-ever national women's rugby league squad". The Province. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  4. "Congratulations to CRU Women". CRU. 2017-11-22. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  5. "England & Canadian development sides named". Scrum Queens. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  6. "Canada biting allegations mar record Jillaroos win". Sydney Morning Herald. 2017-11-22. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  7. "Canada's Haupapa accepts Cup biting ban". SBS. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  8. Last Updated: 23/11/17 6:51am. "Canada's Janai Haupapa given two-match ban for biting". Sky Sports. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  9. "Canadian women's rugby league player banned for biting Australian rival". Stuff.co.nz. 2017-11-23. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  10. "Canada's Haupapa to miss World Cup semi-final after bite admission". Times and Star. Retrieved 2017-11-27.


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