Essay Banu
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Born25 May 2002
Tully, Queensland, Australia
Height167 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Weight97 kg (15 st 4 lb)
PositionProp, Second-row
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| Born | 25 May 2002 Tully, Queensland, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 167 cm (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 97 kg (15 st 4 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Essay Banu (born 25 May 2002) is a professional rugby league footballer who currently plays for the North Queensland Cowboys in the NRL Women's Premiership.
She represented Papua New Guinea at the 2021 Women's Rugby League World Cup.
Banu was born in Tully, Queensland and is of Papua New Guinean and Torres Strait Islander islander descent.[2][3]
She played her junior rugby league for the Tully Tigers and attended Tully State High School.[4]