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Jackson Hastings spends hours behind the wheel each day to accommodate his rugby league career with family duties.
The Wests Tigers halfback drives five times a week from his home on Warilla Beach, on the NSW south coast, to Concord in Sydney's inner West for training.
On a good day, the trip takes two hours each way but the 26-year-old told the Sydney Morning Herald he isn't fazed by the fine balancing act.
Jackson Hastings drives each day from his home on the NSW south coast to Sydney's inner west to take training with the Tigers, making it a four-hour round trip
As the oldest of three kids with a single mother, he feels he has to provide all the help e can.
'To get the chance to come home and help her [his mother] every day, not just financially, but do the little things like take my little sisters to school, or my granddad to appointments, it’s nice knowing I can make it easier for her,' he said.
'To see her relaxed, and even back watching my games after I was in England and COVID, it’s special.'
The Tigers star admitted, however, that he almost reconsidered the arrangement when petrol prices soared earlier this year.
