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Origin information: Norris stands down as Queensland coach
The tenure of Queensland head coach Tahnee Norris has come to an finish after she elected to not search a renewal of her contract.
Norris coached the Maroons ladies’s facet for 5 years, highlighted by helming the 2-1 State of Origin sequence win in 2024 in what was the primary three-match sequence for the feminine recreation.
As coach the NRL Corridor of Fame inductee received the one-off Origin conflict in 2021 and misplaced in 2022 earlier than taking the trophy on for and towards in 2023 in a two-match sequence that was drawn 1-all.
NSW received this 12 months’s sequence 2-1 however general Norris claimed three of the 5 sequence the place she was coach.
“It has been an absolute privilege to teach the Queensland State of Origin staff at such an vital time for ladies’s rugby league in our nation,” Norris mentioned.
“Whereas I’ve totally loved the chance, I really feel that after 5 years in cost it’s the proper time for a change for the staff and myself personally.
“I am immensely pleased with what this staff has been capable of obtain.”
The Maroons might not must look too far for her substitute with Norris’s assistants Dave Elliott and Meg Ward each held in excessive regard by the Queensland Rugby League.
Ward, a former Maroons and Australia participant, is an brisk coach on the rise and is mentor of the Norths Devils ladies’s staff that performs within the statewide competitors.
Final 12 months Elliott coached the Norths Devils males’s facet to premiership success within the Queensland Cup after which within the NRL State Championship last.
Maroons legend and QRL board member Cooper Cronk is slated to be on the panel that selects the subsequent ladies’s coach.
Norris, who received a number of premierships with the Burleigh Bears earlier than her appointment as Maroons mentor in 2021, is a legend of the sport as a participant and coach.
Her enjoying profession stretched over 15 years the place she performed for Australia, NSW and Queensland.
QRL chairman Brian Canavan mentioned her contribution to the ladies’s Origin program and feminine pathways was immense.
“Extra ladies and ladies get to chase and realise their rugby league goals due to the work Tahnee has undertaken over a few years, ” Canavan mentioned.
AAP
Closing groups: Broncos vs Storm
Jack Howarth is out for Melbourne with Joe Chan coming in at centre and Alex Macdonald in on the bench.
Brisbane are 1-17.
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