Even though her fans have asked her over and over again, former Australian rugby player Ruan Sims has not said who her boyfriend is.
Ruan Sims used to play rugby union and rugby league. In rugby union, he played for Australia. He also played a sport called “rugby league.” She was on the Jillaroos team for Australia. Sims made history when she signed a player contract with the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, the first woman to do so.
Also, when she stopped playing rugby league, she started working as a firefighter for the local department. She is currently working for the Fire and Rescue Service of the State of New South Wales. She is on Nine Networks every time because she is on a panel there.
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Ruan Sims hasn’t said anything to the public about her husband yet.
When it comes to her personal and private life, she has kept a low profile in the public eye. We don’t know if she is married or in a relationship right now. Imagine for a moment that she has a fight with someone about how she feels about this issue. If that happens, we’ll make it a top priority to let you know as soon as we can.
How old is Ruan Sims, how old is she?
Ruan Sims was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on February 4, 1982. She’s 40 years old now.
Ruan was born in Australia, in the city of Gerringong, to a family of athletes. In 2013, she held the world record for gumboot throwing, which she set when she was still a child living there. On top of that, she has already reached a large number of her goals despite being young. She has also played many times for Australia in international competitions.
The effect of Ruan Sims’s family on his rugby career
In terms of her family tree, Ruan’s mother is Jackie Sims, and it’s likely that she got her love of rugby from Jackie.
All of her three brothers and one sister, who are all rugby players, are her siblings. The name of her father has not been made public yet. But she has four brothers and one sister, which is known. Ruan’s sister is CJ Sims, and her brothers are named Ashton, Tariq, and Korbin Sims. Korbin, Ruan’s younger brother, is also one of his siblings.
She has been posting a lot of pictures of her family and sharing other information on her Instagram account. If you look for “ruan sims” on Instagram, you should be able to find Ruan there.
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Sims is one of the top players in the NRL.
Ruan Sims, who is a member of the Australian Jillaroos, was on the team that played in the NRL Auckland Nines in 2015.
When Sims became the first woman to sign a contract to play in the National Rugby League, she made history (NRL). She did it while playing for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks. Sims has been a member of the ABC Radio Grandstand NRL commentary team since March 2017. During games, she gives commentary both from the commentary box and from the sidelines. She is also a regular member of the panel on the Nine Network show 100% Footy.
In April 2018, Sims quit her job as a judge for the Dally M Awards. She had voted for the Round 7 NRL game between Parramatta and Manly at ANZ Stadium, but she couldn’t go because she had other plans. After she voted for the game, she gave her notice. It was expected that the judges would be at the games they were given.
In June 2018, the Sydney Roosters women’s team, which played in the first-ever NRL Women’s Premiership in September 2018, announced that Sims was one of fifteen “star” signings. The club was getting ready for the competition at the time. In 2021, Sims was given the Medal of the Order of Australia for her service to Australia. This was part of the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
Ruan Sims laughed at a joke that a friend told him over the phone after a fifth member of his family reached the top level of Australian sports.
“You should call your mom AIS, because she keeps turning out world-class athletes”
It seems right for the Sims children from Gerringong, who were born to a Fijian mother, Jaqueline, and a sports-loving father, Peter. They must be the most successful sports family in the country as a whole.
The oldest, Ruan, is 34 and has played for both Australia and the rest of the world. He has won World Cups in both rugby sevens (in Dubai in 2009) and rugby league (in England in 2013). Ashton, 31, Tariq, 26, and Korbin, 24, are all experienced NRL players who played for Fiji at the World Cup in 2013. Their sister, Canecia (CJ), 27, has been chosen for the Australian national gridiron team that will play in the 2017 IFAF Women’s World Championship of American Football in Austria.
“I’m so proud of what we’ve done as a family,” said Ruan, a firefighter in Sydney whose siblings live all over the world. Ashton has played in the NRL for St. George Illawarra, Brisbane, and North Queensland. He is now in his second season with the Warrington Wolves in England. Tariq and Korbin, the two youngest players, are in their second season with the Newcastle Knights. CJ plays for the Stingrays on the Gold Coast.
But for one weekend in February in Auckland, Ruan, Tariq, and Korbin were all in the same place at the same time. The brothers were playing for the Knights in the Auckland Nines, and Ruan was playing for the Jillaroos in a three-match nines series against New Zealand’s Ferns.
“It was great that we were all competing on that stage, but we were all so busy that we hardly had time to catch up,” said Ruan, who is seen by the others as the most senior and inspiring person.
Tariq said this about Ruan’s accomplishments: “If she was born a man, she would be in the same league as Israel Folau and those other great code hoppers.
“And she deserves all the credit in the world because she has always done it with a smile on her face and in a professional way.”
When asked what about their sister inspires the boys, Korbin said with pride, “Just how hard she works to get where she is.” She has been playing sports for a long time, but she still wants to get better and play for Australia. Tariq went on to say, “The way she throws herself into everything she does is inspiring. She goes as fast as she can for as long as she can, even if it’s just to get the mail.
“We all have a competitive spirit, and she brings it out in all of us”
The five say that the Sims football games in the backyard were very competitive. In the past, it was always Ruan and Ashton against the younger three, and there were no rules.
But when she was away from home, Ruan played the “normal” sports for girls at the time, like netball, physical culture, and progressing through Nippers to the local surf club. She did all of these things with a strong competitive spirit and a desire to work hard.
Then, one day, a friend made fun of the fact that the Gerringong A grade rugby team hadn’t won a single game all season. In response, one of the girls said, “I guess you girls could do better, you don’t even know how to play the game.”
Ruan’s friend decided to put together a women’s team to play in the Illawarra competition. She recruited the partners, mothers, sisters, and cousins of other players, as well as anyone else she could get to join. At 17, Ruan was the youngest player on a team that won the premiership on its first try. He was also the best player on that team. At the end of the season, she was the youngest player on the Australian team.
Ten years later, when the Australian team won the rugby sevens World Cup in Dubai, she was a world champion. At first, she had to train hard and play while also working at a law firm. After a season, she took a break from the sport. But she changed careers when people on her surf boat crew persuaded her to join the NSW Fire Brigade. She put in an application and was accepted. This gave her the freedom to train and compete in sports while also working. In 2011, she joined her brothers in rugby league.
In 2013, she was a big part of the Jillaroos team that beat New Zealand 22-12 at the famous Headingly stadium in Leeds to end their 13-year reign as the best team in the world. New Zealand had won four World Cups during that time. It was a fitting and emotional farewell for longtime captain Karyn Murphy, who is now head of the NRL’s integrity unit, and for fellow leaders Tahnee Norris and Nat Dwyer. It was also Ruan’s career high point.
Even though she is 34, she still wants to win. Ruan’s goal before she was named an NRL “brand ambassador” and NRL Community Ambassador was to get back into rugby and try out for the Australian sevens team at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in August.
“I had always wanted to go to the Olympics since I played basketball, so it was something I was interested in doing,” she said. “But what the NRL and rugby league do for me is what I’m more interested in right now.” It’s an exciting time for both women’s rugby league and my career.
“Right now, my main focus is on rugby league, my role in the NRL, and my job with Fire Rescue NSW. You never know, I might still get the chance to coach there one day.”
She does her job as an ambassador along with famous people like Darren Lockyer, Justin Hodges, Nathan Hindmarsh, Danny Buderus, and Anthony Minichiello. She went to Adelaide in February to help schoolgirls make games and to PNG in March to preach about health, stopping domestic violence, and stopping bullying. She also did a great job when she was the main speaker at a Men of League event.
“I’m very lucky that NRL gave me the chance to do that, and I really enjoy it. I’m also a strong advocate for mental health, which is something I’m very interested in,” she says.
“The NRL should be praised for getting behind women’s rugby league, which is mostly because of Gareth Holmes. They waited until they could back us with enough money and people to keep their support, and they have given us tools to build our reputation as a team.
“We were only able to put the coat of arms on our jerseys for the first time two years ago, and having Harvey Norman as a major commercial sponsor means a lot to the girls. It is so great to have these opportunities.”
Anyone who has seen Ruan play will notice that she is very aggressive and physical, which is typical of Sims. Off the field, she is smart, pretty, and acts as femininely as any other woman. She is also aware of breaking the idea that female football players are big, tough men.
“The way people think about women playing rugby league has changed,” says Ruan. “Women used to be thought of as weak on the field. Being feminine is one of my best qualities. If you have the skill, that’s what matters. People should value a person’s skill set, not how they look, their gender, or their sexuality. It shouldn’t matter how they look, their gender, or their sexuality. It should only matter what skills they have.
“Our game is now a lot more about tactics and speed, and we put more emphasis on strength and conditioning because we have access to the NRL’s high performance system. This helps us play better for longer and show more skill and speed.
“It’s changing, and the NRL players have a lot to do with it. We talk to them a lot more than we used to. When a Test or representative game is the curtain-raiser, many of the boys try to get to their game early so they can watch us.
If what the big crowd at the Auckland Nines saw over two days is typical, the women’s game has come a long way in terms of speed, skill, and being a show.
And Ruan Sims is in the lead. She has no plans to stop in the near future
The best thing for the Sims family would be for Tariq (NSW) and Korbin (Queensland) to play against each other on State of Origin night, while Ruan plays for the women’s Blues in the opening game.
Korbin said, “I hadn’t really thought about it, but it would be a huge accomplishment for our family and for rugby league.”