This is a YouTube video titled "Breaking Barriers: A Rugby Journey from Childhood Passion to Battling Injuries" featuring a dialogue between two speakers sharing their personal experiences with rugby, including challenges related to gender access in school sports and overcoming ankle injuries. The content is a conversational narrative but does not include Beverley Simpson as a speaker.
I've always loved watching it, like, since.
I was a kid. I remember, you know, running around the living room when my dad was watching it, being like, oh, my God, this is the most exciting sport ever.
But it was never available to me.
As a school or anything. It was only available to boys, which for a lot of people my age is the same.
And it's still kind of happening.
Like, I meet a lot of young girls who really want to play at school and aren't allowed, which is frustrating. But it is slowly changing.
But I've only been playing the last three years. This is the sort of time I actually managed to get in and I have been injured. So actually I sprained my ankle. I was running down the wing of.
Our home pitch last season around this time, and I got tackled really hard from the side. And that's just one of those things that happens.
Went over my ankle, immediately knew I'd done something horrible.
I was in the bottom with all these players on top of me, and I was just like.
I could see this other girl who.
Was on the floor opposite me, and.
She was like, are you okay? And I was like, no, not okay. This really hurts. So I worked really hard, like over.
The next sort of six to eight weeks with my physiotherapist to rehab, because I really didn't want to miss the end of the season.
That train was a very bad spring.
And I did miss the end of the season. But I then spent the whole summer, basically. I was like, so determined. I was like, this ankle is not going to sprain.
I was just so determined. And funnily enough, after then building in.
Loads of ankle strengthening stuff into my program generally, about a month ago, I.
Sprained my other ankle on the same pitch with the same tackle. But I'm playing this weekend because the.
Sprain was far less severe because I had spent so much time and effort making sure that both of my ankles were really, really strong.
So now, even if the injury itself.
Isn'T completely preventable, it. The severity is much, much less.
So I now don't have to miss.
I don't have to miss our final game.
It's all good.
Yeah, that's. That's basically my journey into rugby.
