Earlier this month the sixteen-year-old made headlines for designing the GWS Giants’ Super Netball Indigenous round dresses.

And on Saturday she was in the crowd at Apex Oval to watch the Dubbo Rhinos run out in the jerseys she had made for their international round.

Dallinger – a proud Kamilaroi woman who now lives in Newcastle – made the trip back to Dubbo especially.

“It’s just amazing that I could do this for them,” she said.

“Being my home town, they’re representing it absolutely amazingly and I’m so proud that they’re doing the jerseys a really good job.”

The jerseys featured flags for every country the Rhinos has drawn players from, and Dallinger admitted it was a challenge fitting them all on there.

“But it’s international round so I’m all for putting all the flags on there,” she said.

“Every Indigenous culture can be represented here.”

Rhinos club president Ian Burns was full of praise.

“It’s great that she has been able to travel up today and wear the design she made,” he said.

“The jumpers look fantastic and we’re quite privileged and honoured that she did it for us.”

Burns said the club liked to highlight a different cause each year.

“About 20 years ago we started to get people who wanted to come over and play rugby in Australia and that was the start of that involvement from overseas players,” he said.

“Over the years we’ve had many players from many, many different countries … this year we thought it was about time we celebrated them.”

Saturday was also the club’s Old Boys Day, and Burns said it was all a success.

“Our women played tremendously, second grade were very competitive and first grade – even though it ended up being 60-29 – they were in it for most of the game,” he said. “We’ve lost four games this year by less than a try. It’s a sign the competition we’re in is good.”