Working hard in the offseason with her Sunnybank coaches, determined to crack into the Wallaroos side in one of their biggest year's to date, Wong took her game to a whole new level in the 2022 Super W season, repeatedly slicing through opposition defences and scoring a hat trick in her side's win over the Force. It was enough to finally see the star in the gold jersey she'd coveted for so many years as the extra work and support paid off.
"Just being in the Super W and playing for the Reds for so many years and not making it, it was pretty tough," the winger told ESPN. "It was just going back making sure I put in the work and just went hard at training and whatever I was playing for.
"It took a lot of hard work and I think to finally receive the jersey and know that I was finally going to get to put on that jersey was pretty big and special because a lot of people helped me; from different coaches, my teammates and friends. It was pretty special.
"I've been at Sunnybank Rugby since I started playing 15s and I've been with [former Reds coach] Moana Virtue, who's pretty tough and she helped me turn into the player I am today; then just playing sevens with her as well, being coached by her.
"Having Brando Va'aulu now, our current coach at Sunnybank, who has just been working with me on a lot of stuff and extras that he's been helping me out with. There's just a lot of coaches that have helped me along the way and that I've kind of taken little things from to help me become the player I am today.
"Hearing my name get called out and going out to grab the jersey, there were a lot of tears, I think all that hard work and everything that I've put in, it kind of just was a big moment. All the stuff we've been doing was to get a gold jersey, so to receive a jersey, it was pretty special and emotional."
Overcoming the tears and emotion of singing the national anthem and seeing her family in the crowd at Suncorp Stadium earlier this year, the 25-year-old would go on to produce a starring performance against Fiji, her sideline dodging run in the opening minutes one of the many highlights of the match. She'd back it up twice more against Japan and New Zealand, before a knee injury would rule her out of the side's following Test matches.
Healthy and fit again, Wong has been named to make her fourth start for the Wallaroos in one of their final preparations ahead of the World Cup, the first of two Tests against the Black Ferns for the O'Reilly Cup.
With plenty of competition for a position among the Wallaroos' back three, Wong is making sure to focus only on what she can control as she eyes a World Cup berth.
"I'm pretty confident with myself, my biggest thing is just to worry about myself," Wong told ESPN. "Obviously it's going to be tough, but I think my main focus is just worrying about myself and playing my best footy. The competition is pretty strong, but that's what you want because we've got to push each other, we want to put our best foot forward and compete and just prove whoever gets picked wants to win.
"The big goal is to get named in that World Cup squad. But the first step is just seeing how things go with selections and playing well, going hard with whatever game time I get, putting my best foot forward to see what happens with World Cup if I go or not."
Source: ESPN