The Youth Commonwealth Games gold medallist, sprinter and rising league star broke both her tibia and fibula during league-tag play for Narooma on Sunday. 

“It’s just pain through the roof and not nice at all,” said Bennett, who had endured a couple of sleepless nights at the South East Regional Hospital. 

Bennett was slide tackled by a Bombala player with the incident advancing to a match review. 

"I stepped one of them, then this other chick slide tackled me. As it happened, I kind of went to get up, and I couldn’t because my leg just flopped. It was all wobbly and stuff. It made me feel sick.”

However, her Tarsha Gales 9s and Dragons women’s coach Daniel Lacey said the club will be backing her recovery. 

“She's probably a bit flat at the moment, but we'll be putting our best resources at her disposal to get through to the other side,” Mr Lacey said. 

It’s an unfortunate blow to the young star, who was in line for a seven-week high performance camp with the Dragons as a pathway into the new Women’s NRL draw. 

Mr Lacey said he was astounded by Bennett’s work ethic, despite not having done strength and weights programming on a league basis she was still “just that good” to be one of the best try-scorers in the women’s competition. 

“I’ve got a bit of a soft spot for Lilly and her family because I've realised the sacrifices she's made,” he said. 

“The efforts they went to, travelling five hours each way just to train for the Tarsha Gale 9s, I see how hard she works and it makes me want to work equally as hard for them.

“Us at the Dragons we'll be doing as much as we can to get her back on the paddock with her rehab - she won't be doing this on her own.”

Bennett said it was the first bones she had ever broken and was a little concerned about the four-to-six month recovery. 

“It isn’t very pleasant and I haven’t even thought about recovery or rehab yet,” she said. 

Mr Lacey said he was absolutely confident Bennett would be back on the field quickly. 

“She’s a super good kid; she works hard and her determination will see her get back,” he said. 

“We want to commit to our local girls and give them every opportunity to play.”

With Bennett to miss the pathways program that starts next week, Mr Lacey said the news for Bennett was a “bad story” right now, “but from one bad story, I’m sure we can turn it into a good story of recovery to look back on”.