This led to her being selected in October 2023 for the New Zealand women's national rugby league team for whom she has played three matches to date.

[3][4] He progressed to the senior grades during which time his team in 1967 won the region's premier competition, the Fox Memorial Shield.

[4] She was eventually forced to give up rugby league as mixed gender teams ended at the age of 10 and at the time there was not pathway to continue playing in a female only competition.

[6] She was captain of the Lynfield College team that competed in the greater Auckland secondary schools junior touch champs in November 2008.

It took her approximately a year to reach what she considered a acceptable standard and she substantially improved further with assistance from Dan Carter and Mick Byrne who was the All Blacks kicking coach from 2005 to 2015.

[2] In 2016 Nathan-Wong was a member of New Zealand team that won a silver medal in the Women’s Sevens competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

[10][2] In 2018, Nathan-Wong was a member of the team that won both the 2018 Commonwealth Games held on the Gold Coast in Australia, as well as the Rugby World Cup Sevens in San Francisco, United States.

In 2019, Nathan-Wong was nominated as a World Rugby Women's Sevens Player of the Year having completed the season as the top goal kicker in the tournament.

[16][17][18][19] As a result of the lingering concussion, she received while playing in August 2022 against Australia for the New Zealand fifteen-a-side team she wasn’t available for the Sevens World Cup in September 2022.

Following the completion of her break to play rugby league in 2023 and after missing to first two tournaments of the 2023–24 season she returned to the New Zealand sevens team in January 2024.

[22] During the New Zealand win over Brazil at the Los Angeles tournament on 2 March 2024 she over overtook Ghislaine Landry to become the highest women points scorer in the history of the sevens series.

[2] In 2020 and 2021 she played a total of seven games at halfback on loan for Northland in the Farah Palmer Cup during which she scored 25 points.

[28][29] Nathan-Wong got her first Black Ferns XV's call up after she was selected for the Laurie O'Reilly Cup Test series against Australia.

[30][31] She made her test debut for New Zealand as halfback when she came off the bench in the second half of their game at Orangetheory Stadium in Christchurch against Australia on 20 August 2022 when they won.

[32][33][20] Her debut was marred by a head knock which led to a lingering concussion which subsequently ruled her out of the Black Ferns XV’s World Cup squad.

[34] This release allowed her to sign a one-year contract on 24 May 2023 with NRLW rugby league team the St George Illawarra Dragons with a view to later returning to sevens to play in the 2024 Paris Olympics.

[15][5][35] Nathan-Wong made her Rugby League and club debut at five-eighth on 22 July 2023 for the Dragons against the reigning NRLW champions Newcastle Knights, during which she scored a try.

[36] In 2023 she was selected for the New Zealand women's rugby league squad in compete in the Pacific Championship competition against Australia and Tonga.

[38] After arriving back in New Zealand from the Paris Olympics on the morning of 2 August 2024 King departed three days later to commence a contract extension which will keep her playing with the St George Illawarra Dragons until the end of the 2025 season.