Elleman and her ACT Brumbies teammates were days away from playing in the semi-finals before coronavirus threat put a hold on the competition last month.

With Rugby Australia announcing no games, or any team training, could take place until May 1 it was hoped the competition would be able to resume then.

However as the effects of the international health threat deepens the semi-final clash with Queensland has now been abandoned.

Instead minor premiers NSW have been crowned champions for the third time in the three years of the competition.

Elleman travelled from Wagga to Canberra three times a week to train with the side and follow her rugby dream.

While disappointed not to be able to finish their most promising campaign yet, the 26-year-old is confident the right decision has been made.

"I am sad our season has come to an end and we haven't had the opportunity to play the semi-final," Elleman said.

"Our goal was to make that grand final this year but I think it is in the best interest of everyone that it has been cancelled.

"Obviously we would all be travelling together and although we are all quite upset about it but now we are looking forward to next year and getting a whole season out of it."

Elleman has played in each of the three seasons for the Brumbies.

They finished fourth in the inaugural competition before a third last year.

They've had to settle for that position again but after a narrow loss to Queensland in the last round of the season Elleman was confident they had the team to turn it around to win through to the decider.

As she hasn't been able to train with her teammates Elleman needed to get creative to make sure she would be ready to go if the finals went ahead.

She even her Dachshund Waffles as a training partner.

"We had running programs and home gym programs with a lot of body weight," Elleman said.

"I was using my sausage dog as a weight while I was doing squats and lunges, going for runs and still maintaining my fitness as much as possible."

Now Elleman is hoping to use all that training to get out onto the field with Ag College.

The Southern Inland season was set to start on Saturday but now no rugby will be played until at least June 1.

The university side barely had a training run before the COVID-19 ban came into affect.

However after making massive strides in the back of the season last year she hopes they will be able to pick things back up again quickly.

"It was a hard thing not having a season to start as I've been apart of the competition since it started," Elleman said.

"It was a weird feeling and a couple of the girls I spoke to we all a little bit sad but we are still hoping we will get the opportunity to play rugby at some point this year."

Aggies finished sixth last season but showed plenty of improvement late.

Elleman expects to have a similar line-up this time around.

"We've kept a lot of the core girls and hopefully there won't be as many injuries when we do get to play," she said.

"We'll see who wants to play as we had a lot of girls interested and hoping when can keep them when we come back."

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