Hollie-Mae Dodd
Hollie-Mae Dodd (born 26 July 2003) is an England international rugby league player. Dodd plays for Canberra Raiders in the NRL Women's Premiership having previously played for York Valkyrie and Castleford Tigers in the Women's Super League. Dodd plays as a or a . Dodd was a student at Castleford Academy where she was player in school teams that reached four Champion Schools finals between 2015 and 2018 and won three of them (runners up in 2017). Dodd scored tries in each of the finals: 2015 (3), 2016 (2), 2017 (2) and 2018 (2). Dodd played for Castleford Tigers making her debut in the final of the 2019 Women's Challenge Cup on 27 July 2019. The match was the day after her 16th birthday and made Dodd the youngest player, female or male, to appear in a Challenge Cup final. The same season, Castleford won the Super League league leader's shield and went on to reach the Super League grand final only to have the disappointment of losing to Leeds again, with Dodd playing at second-row. With the 2020 season abandoned due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it was not until 2021 that Dodd's career continued. Playing for Castleford she helps