Alice D. Cooper is a pioneer of women's
rugby union, in England and internationally.
Biography
Cooper was born in
Edinburgh,
Scotland. In October 1986, she met two members of the
Richmond Women’s rugby team in a night out and was told that they needed tall players like her.
She found an old pair of lacrosse boots and attended her first training at Richmond where she met
Deborah Griffin
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Biography
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,
Sue Dorrington
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Biography
Dorrington was born and raised in Minnesota, USA. She started playing rugby in the early eightie ...
and
Mary Forsyth
Mary Forsyth is a pioneer of women's rugby union, in England and internationally.
Biography
Forsyth was born in Pittsburgh, US. She was a high school athletics prospect when she enrolled at Pennsylvania State University, Penn State University ...
.
Cooper became part of the Organising Committee for the inaugural
Women’s Rugby World Cup in 1991.
She was an obvious choice for Press officer because she was a regular contributor to ''Rugby World & Post'' where she had her own column about the women’s game.
Cooper devoted countless hours creating media coverage for the tournament, and was often found at the National Sports Centre for Wales typing up team sheets and match reports, organising the printing of programmes, and handling media calls.
Cooper's playing career came to an end in 1993 after she suffered a broken leg while captaining the Richmond sevens team.
World Rugby Hall of Fame
Cooper, Dorrington, Griffin, and Forsyth will be inducted into the
World Rugby Hall of Fame in a special ceremony during the
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, ...
semi-finals at Eden Park on 5 November 2022.
References
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
English female rugby union players