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Jasper Bruce

The 6am sessions that resurrected NRLW's Vette-Welsh

Former Eel Botille Vette-Welsh will play in the Wests Tigers' first NRLW game against Parramatta. (Brendon Thorne/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

If not for four months of one-on-one training sessions, each beginning at 6am and some reducing her to tears, Botille Vette-Welsh would probably be missing the Wests Tigers' historic first NRLW match.

The former NSW State of Origin fullback went down with an anterior cruciate ligament tear in March last year and missed Parramatta's entire 2022 campaign. She faced upwards of a year on the sidelines.

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