Agathe Sochat (born 21 May 1995) is a French rugby union player who plays for

Stade Bordelais Stade Bordelais are a French rugby union club, based in Bordeaux. The club was established in 1889. Bordelais were a major force in the French championship during the 1900s. Until 2005–06, the senior team competed in the second level of dome ...

and the France women's national rugby union team.

Career

Sochat played for

between 2013 and 2016 before joining Montpellier Hérault Rugby with whom she won the

Élite 1 Élite 1 (since 2018, and previously Top 8 from 2015 to 2018) is the top national league for women's rugby union clubs in France. It was founded from the 1971–1972 season under the aegis of the French Women's Rugby Association before being taken ...

National Championships in 2017, 2018, and 2019 before rejoining Stade Bordelais in August 2021. In December 2021 she was named in World Rugby’s Women's Team of the Year. In 2022, She was named in France's team for the delayed

2021 Rugby World Cup The 2021 Rugby World Cup was the ninth staging of the women's Rugby World Cup, as organised by World Rugby. It was held from 8 October to 12 November 2022 in Auckland and Whangārei, New Zealand. It was originally scheduled to be held in 2021, ...

in New Zealand.

Personal life

From

Limoges Limoges (, , ; oc, Lemòtges, locally ) is a city and Communes of France, commune, and the prefecture of the Haute-Vienne Departments of France, department in west-central France. It was the administrative capital of the former Limousin region ...

, her parents are called Laurent and Christime. She began playing rugby aged 4 and they supported her in combining rugby with studying in Bordeaux and Montpellier. An occupational therapist, during the COVID-19 pandemic Sochat made masks for fellow frontline workers. In March 2022 she had a baby daughter with her wife Adele.

References

1995 births Living people French female rugby union players France women's international rugby union players {{France-rugbyunion-bio-stub