Carys Phillips (born 12 November 1992) is a Welsh

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player. She plays as a Hooker for the

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in the

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and for

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Personal life

The daughter of back row forward Rowland Phillips, she studied at

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and took a course in Sports Coaching and Development at

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. She is an ambassador for the Red Kites Girls’ Rugby Cluster Centre, an organisation which lends its support to all-girls rugby.

Rugby career

Phillips has played for Skewen RFC and also for

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, and Ospreys. Phillips won her first international cap against

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in the first round of the

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. In 2016, She captained Wales in the second round of the Six Nations Championship. Phillips was selected in

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squad for the 2021 Rugby World Cup in

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References

1992 births Living people Alumni of Cardiff Metropolitan University Ospreys (rugby union) players Rugby union players from Warrington Skewen RFC players Wales international rugby union players Welsh female rugby union players {{Wales-rugbyunion-bio-stub