Erin King

And that's kind of been my kind of continuous factor through my whole life.

Yeah, always how I found my friends and always fit right into wherever I was all over the world playing rugby.

Yeah, it was about a year ago in our Six Nations last year.

I played rugby sevens for years and I got to go to the Olympics in 2024 and was having a great year, started playing 15s and then was playing my first Six Nations.

And unfortunately, in our third game against England, I had a really big, serious knee injury and it was...

Yeah, I ended up playing the full game, which made me kind of think it wasn't anything too serious and then got the results from the scan and it was actually an injury that they hadn't really seen before.

So it was really uncertain if I'd get to play again or if I'd even run again.

Gosh, what was it?

I took basically a chunk of cartilage, like a really big chunk of cartilage off the back of my kneecap.

And at my age, I was only 21.

To have something that I love so much, the reality of it taken away was, you know, really tough for me and kind of changed my whole perspective on everything.

Initially, no.

But the surgeon then kind of explained the severity of it and how he wasn't too sure.

And it was a new surgery.

Oh, absolutely devastated.

Heartbroken.

Like rugby gives me so much.

And we also had a World Cup in the summer.

So I knew I was going to have to miss that.

But...