On the field, she's fierce, loud, and determined to break games wide open with her blockbusting carries and huge tackles, but off the pitch Wallaroos centre Georgie Friedrichs is a little different.
Softly spoken and shy, Friedrichs is more than happy to sit back and let her teammates shine in the limelight as she quietly works away at the gym or on the training paddock to become one of Australia's best players.
Making her Wallaroos debut at the start of the year, it's been a long journey for the 27-year-old who started her rugby career in Toowoomba and moved to Sydney to join the Australian sevens squad, before ultimately moving to the 15-player game and making the gold No. 13 jersey her own.
A rugby fan from a young age, Friedrichs often travelled with her dad to Brisbane to watch the Queensland Reds, never once dreaming that she'd one day run out on the Suncorp Stadium turf to make her Test debut.
Growing up as a touch footballer, it was because of pestering from her dad and the inclusion of rugby sevens at the Olympics that saw Friedrichs finally give rugby a go. Almost 10 years later, she's representing Australia on rugby's biggest stage, the World Cup in New Zealand.
"I came from touch football originally, so I've been with the football in my hands since the age of 10 or so, but I only started playing rugby when I was almost finished school at about 17 or 18 years old," Friedrichs told ESPN.
"My dad and I used to hop on the train to Brisbane every week to watch the Reds home games, which I have fond memories of, and then when girls' rugby started coming about he always pestered me to play and I said 'no, no, no,' and then it got announced in the Olympics and my friends started playing so I hopped on the bandwagon and never looked back.
"My family are definitely proud of me. They've always been supportive and they've been a union family ever since I can remember and to go to a World Cup it's pretty special, after all that time training for what seemed like nothing at the time to finally get here is pretty exciting."
Joining the Australian sevens program in 2016, Friedrichs made her debut in 2017 before winning a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in 2018. It was a hard few years for the outside centre, who suffered from a lack of confidence and several injuries that saw her out of the game for months at a time, but working in a professional environment has also proved important.
"When I was in sevens I lacked the confidence, I think because I was kind of starstruck," Friedrichs told ESPN. "There [are] so many good players and you only get two minutes in a game to try to do your best, but you maybe overplay your hand and then it goes the other way.
"Then I was out with a few injuries. I had a pretty serious ankle injury in 2017 which needed surgery, and then 2018 I had a stress fracture in my hip, which took me out for a bit, probably about seven months, and then the game changed while I was out and couldn't keep up with those changes.
"I mean, you're disappointed that you can't stick with that sort of full-time professional program, but I mean it opened up other opportunities for me, which sees me here now I guess.
"Obviously I learned a lot of professionalism being in a professional program for that long, so I guess I learned how to train hard, how to analyze my game. I learned a lot of resilience being in that squad for three years."
Almost lured across to league after leaving the sevens program, Friedrichs instead chose to join Sydney club Randwick where she met Waratahs and Wallaroos teammate Bella McKenzie. Quickly forming a formidable duo, the pair dominated club and state rugby together, with Friedrichs named the Waratahs' best back at the end of the Super W season, before they both nailed down their places as Wallaroos starters this year.
Finding the confidence she once lacked, the 27-year-old has transformed herself into the wrecking ball centre we see today.
"I sort of tell myself before each game, just to have courage and be brave and I think that that gives me confidence when I keep repeating that to myself. To play with courage that really resonates with me. At the start of my career I wasn't really a very confident player and I think that really hurt me when I was younger.
"I think it's definitely come with gaining a lot of confidence in the last sort of 18 months I think that's probably the thing that sort of hindered me before that.
"But I never want to rest on my laurels. You don't want to say it's my position, you always want to kind of earn it. So, I wouldn't claim it as my position, I've got to keep performing in it and keep earning it."