Most people outside Australia do not know Jayme Millard. That is about to change. The 24-year-old winger for the Dragons is quickly becoming a huge name in the National Women’s Rugby League. Standing 173 cm (5’8″) with a strong athletic body, she delivers elite talent on the field and a gorgeous sportive look. Scroll down to see Jayme Millard’s hottest off-the-pitch photos.
Jayme Millard
Bulli Girl
Jayme Millard was born on July 31, 2002, and grew up in Bulli, a small coastal town just south of Wollongong on the New South Wales coast. It’s the kind of place where the beach is five minutes away and sport is part of the furniture. She grew up 5’8″, athletic, and surrounded by a family that treated rugby league as a religion. Bulli didn’t produce many NRLW players before Jayme. It does now.
It’s in the Blood
Her father Shane Millard didn’t just watch rugby league, he played it at the highest level, turning out for the St George Illawarra Dragons in the NRL back in 2002. He never really left the game either, currently coaching the Dragons’ Jersey Flegg Cup squad. Growing up with a father who lived and breathed the sport means Jayme didn’t just inherit a love of rugby league. She inherited a standard.
But First, Soccer
Before rugby league became her full focus, Jayme did something that surprises most people: she packed her bags and flew to West Virginia to play college soccer in the United States. It takes a specific kind of confidence to leave Australia at 19 and compete in a completely different sport, in a completely different country, with a completely different set of teammates. She did it without hesitation.
10 Goals in the US
At Concord University in 2022, Jayme played as a forward for the Mountain Lions and delivered immediately. She scored 10 goals and added 5 assists across 16 games, including a hat trick against West Virginia Wesleyan and a five-point game against Davis and Elkins. That kind of output earned her an All-Mountain East Conference Honorable Mention in her only season with the program. Not bad for someone whose real sport was still waiting for her back home.
Coming Home and Switching Codes
After her season in the United States, Jayme returned to Australia and made the decision to go all in on rugby league. She joined the Sharks at Harvey Norman NSW Women’s Premiership level, the tier just below the NRLW, and started building her game in earnest. The transition from soccer forward to rugby league winger isn’t as simple as it sounds, different rules, different physicality, different everything. She made it work anyway.
The Dragons Call
In 2025, St George Illawarra Dragons came calling, and Jayme signed with the club for the NRLW season. The same club her father had played for over two decades earlier. Whether that fact was lost on anyone in the Millard household is unlikely. She joined a squad that had been rebuilt from the ground up, with a new head coach and a clear ambition to compete at the top of the competition.
NRLW Debut
On July 27, 2025, Jayme Millard made her NRLW debut as a winger for the Dragons. Before the match, her debut jersey was presented to her by her family, the same people who had watched her grow from a kid on the coast of New South Wales into a professional rugby league player. It was the kind of moment that doesn’t need much commentary. The jersey said everything.
First Try
On August 30, 2025, Jayme scored her first NRLW try against the Warriors. In rugby league, a winger’s job is to finish, to take the ball at full speed near the touchline and get it down before anyone can stop them. She did exactly that. One try. One more reason the Dragons knew they had made the right call bringing her into the squad.
More Than an Athlete
Off the field, Jayme works as a disability support worker, spending her time outside of rugby league helping people who need it. It’s the kind of detail that tells you something real about a person, that the identity goes well beyond the jersey. She also keeps active through Pilates and travel, and has built a growing presence on TikTok and Instagram sharing the behind the scenes reality of life as an NRLW player.
Welcome to the NRLW
Most of the world has never heard of the NRLW, and that’s exactly why it deserves an introduction. The National Rugby League Women’s competition is Australia’s elite professional women’s rugby league, one of the most physically brutal team sports on the planet. Players run, tackle, and collide at full speed for 70 minutes, with no padding and very little margin for error. It is not a sport that welcomes passengers. Jayme Millard earned her place in it. That alone says everything.
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