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2019 Women's Rugby Super Series
The 2019 Women's Rugby Super Series was the third series of the Women's Rugby Super Series, a women's international rugby union competition featuring the best-ranked sides. Unlike the previous editions of the Super Series in 2015 and 2016 which featured four teams, the 2019 edition featured five. The teams were the top five ranked in the world, hosts the United States, defending champions Canada, 2016 debutants France, Six Nations Grand Slam champions and two-time runners-up England, and 2015 champions and current world champions New Zealand. The tournament was won by New Zealand with England second and France third. Table Fixtures 28 June ---- ---- 2 July ---- ---- 6 July ---- ---- 10 July ---- ---- 14 July ---- See also *Women's international rugby Women's international rugby union has a history going back to the late 19th century, but it was not until 1982 that the first international fixture (or "test match") involving women's rugby unio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kendra Cocksedge
Kendra Margaret Cocksedge (born 1 July 1988) is a retired New Zealand Rugby union, Rugby Union player and Cricket, Cricketer. She played for the New Zealand Women's national rugby union side, the Black Ferns and for the Canterbury representative rugby union team, Canterbury provincial side. She was a member of the 2010 Women's Rugby World Cup, 2010, 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup, 2017 and 2021 Rugby World Cup, 2021 Rugby World Cup winning squads. In 2018 she won the Kelvin R Tremain Memorial Player of the Year Award at the annual New Zealand Rugby awards. Early life Cocksedge was originally from Taranaki, she played rugby from a young age and made the Taranaki and Hurricanes Secondary School teams. She also represented the Central Hinds at cricket, debuting as a 15-year-old. Cricket career Cocksedge wore cap #100 for the Central Districts Hinds, playing 38 List A one-day matches and five Twenty20s. She debuted in the 2004-5 season and played through to the 2007-8 season State L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia MacDonald
Claudia Frances MacDonald (born 4 January 1996) is an English rugby union scrum-half who plays for the England national team and club rugby for Exeter Chiefs Women. International career MacDonald made her debut for the England national team coming off the bench against the United States in the 2018 Quilter Internationals. She played against Wales in the 2019 Women's Six Nations Championship, which England won with a grand slam. In January 2019, MacDonald was awarded a professional contract with the national team. Later that year, she scored a try in England's Super Series fixture versus the USA. She went on to play 80 minutes in England's victory over Italy in November 2019. MacDonald was a member of the 2020 Women's Six Nations England squad. She was named in the England squad for the delayed 2021 Rugby World Cup held in New Zealand in October and November 2022. Club career MacDonald played for Sutton & Epsom RFC before joining the Tyrrells Premier 15s side Darlingt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlie Packer
Marlie Packer (born 2 October 1989) is an English rugby union player (back row / flanker) for Saracens and women. She was part of the winning 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup squad. International career Packer began her international career playing for England in 2008. In 2013, she played for the England squad at the 2013 Women's Rugby World Cup Sevens in Moscow. She went on to play for the winning England 15s team during the 2014 World Cup, and again in the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup. In 2017 she also played for England in the Women's Six Nations tournament and was part of the winning Grand Slam team in the 2019 Women's Six Nations, playing in four of England's five games. She has won four Six Nations Grand Slam titles with England to date. Packer started in all but one of England's 2019 Women's Rugby Super Series games and was awarded a full time contract to play in the England team in 2019. In 2020, an ankle injury kept her from playing in the year's Six Nations champions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poppy Cleall
Poppy Cleall (born 12 June 1992) is an English rugby union player. She also plays for Saracens Women at club level. She is the 2021 Six Nations Player of the Year, England Player of the year and the leading all time Premiership try scorer. She was nominated for World Player of the Year in 2021. She has won 5 Grand Slams and 4 Premiership Titles with Saracens. International career Cleall made her England debut at the 2016 Women's Six Nations Championship. In 2017 she featured in every game of the 2017 Six Nations in which England won the Grand Slam. The same year, she was selected for the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup team as an injury replacement; England reached the final of the tournament. The following year she again played for England's 2018 Six Nations team, switching between flanker, No. 8 and second row. Her Six Nations career continued in 2019 when she scored four tries for her country, representing in each of England's games. She was offered a professional contract ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoe Harrison
Zoe Harrison (born 14 April 1998) is an English rugby player who plays for the England women's national rugby union team and Saracens Women at club level. She made her international debut for England in 2017 and was offered a full-time contract for the national side in 2019. International career Harrison first played for the England women's national rugby team in 2017, when she made three appearances in the autumn internationals. Her first game was against Canada: England won 79-5. She was awarded a full-time England contract in January 2019. The same year, she played in all five games of the 2019 Women's Six Nations Championships and started the final three games as England won the Grand Slam. Also in 2019, Harrison made appearances in all of England's Super Series matches in San Diego. In 2020, she played each of the side's 2020 Women's Six Nations matches. On April 1, 2021 it was announced that Harrison was omitted from the England team for their 2021 Women's Six Nations C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amber Reed
Amber Reed (born 3 April 1991) is an English rugby union player. She won the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup as a member of 's squad and was selected for the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup squad. She currently also plays for Bristol Bears. International career Reed debuted for the England Women's rugby team in 2012 against France, having previously played for the national side's Under 20s team. In 2014, she won the Women's Rugby World Cup with England. Reed went on to play every match in the 2017 Six Nations, in which England won the Grand Slam. She was also selected for the England World Cup team in 2017; the side lost in the final to New Zealand. A recurring back injury that kept her off the pitch for several months in 2018 and resulted in a specialist advising her to retire from contact sports. However, after her recovery and rehabilitation, Reed's international career continued at the 2018 Women's Six Nations. In 2019, Reed won her 50th cap playing in the Super Series in the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lydia Thompson (rugby Union)
Lydia Thompson (born 10 February 1992) is a member of the England Women's Rugby Team having made her debut in 2012. At club level, she plays for Worcester Warriors Women. International career Thompson made her debut for England in 2012, running in three tries against Spain during the 2012 European Cup. She played in the opening pool game of the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup but was ruled out of the tournament due to injury, though the team went on to win. She returned to international rugby in 2017, helping England to win the 2017 Six Nations Championship grand slam, and playing in every game of the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup. That same year, she was nominated for World Rugby Player of the Year. She moved to Rugby sevens in 2018 to play for England in the 2018 Commonwealth Games, and returned to 15s for the Quilter Internationals in November that year. Though she missed the 2019 Six Nations championship, Thompson returned to play all England games of the 2019 Super Series, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah McKenna
Sarah McKenna (born 23 March 1989) is an English rugby union and rugby sevens player. She is a member of the England Women's Rugby Team and plays for Saracens Women's at club level. International career McKenna made her debut for the England national team in August 2011 in a 15–11 victory over the United States. She also played for the country's rugby sevens team the same year and focused on sevens for some years after. She played in the 2015 Women's Six Nations Championship in which England came fourth. In 2015, she was also part of the team to finish third in the first round of the Rugby Europe 7s Grand Prix, but was forced out for nine months due to an ankle injury. The same injury caused her to miss the 2016 Summer Olympics. She returned to international rugby in 2018, playing in three World Rugby Women's Sevens series events. She was also selected for the England squad playing in the Rugby World Cup Sevens in San Francisco that year, in which the team placed nin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joy Neville
Joy Neville (born on 24 July 1983) is a former Ireland women's rugby union international and a current rugby union referee. As a player, Neville represented Ireland at both the 2006 and 2010 Women's Rugby World Cups. In 2009 Neville captained the first Ireland team to defeat . In 2013 she was also a member of the first Ireland women's team to win the Six Nations, Grand Slam and Triple Crown titles. After retiring as a player, Neville became a referee. She has taken charge of matches in the Women's Six Nations Championship, the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series and the Women's Rugby World Cup, including the 2017 final. In addition to refereeing women's rugby union, Neville has also achieved a number of firsts as a female referee in the men's game. In 2016 Neville served as an assistant referee for a European Rugby Challenge Cup game between Bath and Bristol, making her the first woman to officiate in a professional European rugby match. In 2016, she became the first femal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California
California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territories of the United States by population, most populous U.S. state and the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 3rd largest by area. It is also the most populated Administrative division, subnational entity in North America and the 34th most populous in the world. The Greater Los Angeles area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second and fifth most populous Statistical area (United States), urban regions respectively, with the former having more than 18.7million residents and the latter having over 9.6million. Sacramento, California, Sacramento is the state's capital, while Los Angeles is the List of largest California cities by population, most populous city in the state and the List of United States cities by population, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Diego
San Diego ( , ; ) is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast of Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. With a 2020 population of 1,386,932, it is the List of United States cities by population, eighth most populous city in the United States and the county seat, seat of San Diego County, the List of the most populous counties in the United States, fifth most populous county in the United States, with 3,338,330 estimated residents as of 2019. The city is known for its mild year-round climate, natural deep-water harbor, extensive beaches and parks, long association with the United States Navy, and recent emergence as a healthcare and biotechnology development center. San Diego is the List of municipalities in California, second largest city in the U.S. state, state of California, after Los Angeles. Historically home to the Kumeyaay people, San Diego is frequently referred to as the "Birthplace of California", as it was the first site vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Olympic Training Center
The United States Olympic & Paralympic Training Centers (OPTCs) are two campuses created by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) as training facilities for its Olympic and Paralympic athletes. They are located in Colorado Springs, Colorado and Lake Placid, New York. Formerly, the USOPC also had an OPTC in Chula Vista, California, which is now a training site known as the Elite Athlete Training Center. There is a U.S. Olympic Education Center in Marquette, Michigan, and other official U.S. Olympic/Paralympic training sites are located in Oklahoma City and Edmond, Oklahoma; Carson, California; Lakeshore Foundation in Birmingham, Alabama; Charlotte, North Carolina; the Pettit National Ice Center in West Allis, Wisconsin; a USRowing training center in Oakland, California - previously in Princeton, New Jersey; Huntsville, Texas and the SPIRE Institute and Academy near Geneva, Ohio. Some athletes preparing for the Olympics, Paralympics, and Pan American Games live at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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