Chloe Butler (born 11 April 1987) is a female

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player and former

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player.

Early life

Butler grew up on a cattle property in Croydon, Queensland, Australia. Butler moved to

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, was a

Canberra Raiders The Canberra Raiders are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the national capital city of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. They have competed in Australasia's elite rugby league competition, the National Rugby ...

cheerleader, and started out in running and gymnastics before getting injured.

Playing career

Rugby union career

Butler formerly played for the

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Parramatta Two Blues Western Sydney Two Blues Rugby, formerly Parramatta Two Blues Rugby, is a rugby union club based in Parramatta, the second CBD of Sydney, Australia. The club was formed in 1879 and competes in the Shute Shield run by the New South Wales Rugby ...

and currently for the

Wallaroos The Australia women's national rugby union team, also known as the Wallaroos, has competed at all Women's Rugby World Cups since 1998, with their best result finishing in third place in 2010. Australian women have been playing rugby since th ...

. She has been selected in the Wallaroos squad to the

2014 Women's Rugby World Cup The 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup was the seventh edition of the Women's Rugby World Cup, and the sixth held in Europe. The World Cup Final took place on 17 August. All of the pool games for the World Cup took place at the Centre National du R ...

. Butler was part of the first ever women's Bledisloe Cup double header before the All Blacks vs the Wallabies in 2016. Butler played No.5. Butler played Openside flanker against England and Canada and no.6 against the Black Ferns in the Womens Four Nations tour in New Zealand in June 2017. Butler played in the 2017 Womens Rugby World Cup in Ireland for Australia. She played lock and open side flanker. Butler has 14 caps for Australia. In October 2017 Butler moved to England to play for south west London club Richmond FC in the Tyrrrell's Womens Rugby Championship. She made her debut, as a No. 8, on October 21st at the Athletic Ground in a defeat versus Saracens.http://richmondfc.co.uk/index.php/news/808-rihmond-women-v-saracens. She now plays for Harlequins.

WRWC 2017 statistics

American football / gridiron career

Butler is a former wide receiver and defensive end for the

Los Angeles Temptation The Los Angeles Temptation were a women's American football team in the Legends Football League, previously known as the Lingerie Football League, based in Los Angeles and Ontario, California. The team was established as Team Dream, one of two te ...

and captained the New South Wales Surge, Western Conference squad for the 2012 LFL All-Fantasy Game Tour.

LFL statistics

Personal life

Butler dated

Penrith Panthers The Penrith Panthers are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the western Sydney suburb of Penrith that competes in the NRL. The team is based west of the centre of Sydney, at the foot of the Blue Mountains. Penrith ...

and

South Sydney Rabbitohs The South Sydney Rabbitohs are a professional Australian rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen pla ...

player Tim Grant. Butler currently plays rugby union in the Tyrrell’s Premier 15s league for Harlequins and resides in London, England with three fellow rugby playing housemates. Outside of rugby she enjoys running, socialising with friends, red wine and dark chocolate digestives.

References

External links

Wallaroos Profile
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