Black Ferns rugby union superstar Michaela Blyde has been secured by the One New Zealand Warriors in a major code-swap coup for the club’s return to the NRLW next year.

The 28-year-old Taranaki-raised speedster will join the Warriors on a one-year deal bringing with her an exceptional list of team and individual success on the world stage.

Among her achievements, she was the back-to-back World Rugby Sevens women’s player of the year in 2017 and 2018, was in the gold medal-winning Blacks Ferns squad at the 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games, and won Commonwealth Games gold in 2018.

Blyde was also in the Rugby World Cup Sevens winning team in 2018 and has helped the Black Ferns to six World Sevens series triumphs since 2013