Tyla King

Tyla King

Nathan-Wong in 2017
Birth name	Tyla Nathan-Wong
Date of birth	(1994-07-01) 1 July 1994 (age 30)
Place of birth	Auckland, New Zealand
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	60 kg (9 st 6 lb)
School	Lynfield College
Rugby union career
Position(s) Halfback Provincial / State sides Years Team Apps (Points) 2012 Auckland Sevens () Super Rugby Years Team Apps (Points) 2022 Blues Women (0) International career Years Team Apps (Points) 2010– NZ Women's Touch team 2011 NZ U19 Women's Touch Team 2022 New Zealand 1 (0) National sevens teams Years Team Comps 2012–2024 New Zealand 195[1] 2012 Maori Women's Sevens
Rugby league career
Playing information
Position	Five-eighth
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 2023– St. George Illawarra Dragons 11 3 4 0 20
As of 28 August 2024
Medal record Women's rugby sevens Representing  New Zealand Olympic Games 2024 Paris Team competition 2020 Tokyo Team competition 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team competition Commonwealth Games 2018 Gold Coast Team competition 2022 Birmingham Team competition Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018 San Francisco Team competition 2013 Moscow Team competition

Tyla King (née Nathan-Wong; born 1 July 1994) is a New Zealand international rugby union player, professional rugby league player and Olympian.

She played touch rugby, tag rugby and both sevens and fifteen-a-side rugby union as a teenager before in 2012 at the age of 18 she made her debut as a professional rugby sevens player when she was selected for the New Zealand sevens team. During her time with the team, which she captained on a number of occasions, they won the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series in 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2019–20, and 2022–23. With them she won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and back-to-back gold medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

In May 2023 she was released from her contract with New Zealand Rugby to play rugby league for the Australian club St. George Illawarra Dragons in the NRL Women's Premiership. This led to her being selected in October 2023 for the New Zealand women's national rugby league team for whom she has played three matches to date. She returned to the New Zealand women sevens rugby team in early 2024 before retiring from international sevens rugby after the Paris Olympics. She is currently the highest women points scorer in the history of the women sevens series.

As well as touch, sevens rugby, fifteen-a-side and rugby league, King has represented New Zealand in tag rugby.^[2]