Katherine Merchant

Katherine Merchant
playing for Worcester in 2010
Date of birth (1985-10-29) 29 October 1985
Place of birth Brighton, East Sussex, England
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Wing
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
- Worcester ()
National team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
-  England 54 ()
National sevens team(s)
Years Team Comps
-  England

Katherine ("Kat") Merchant (born 29 October 1985) is an English female rugby union player who represented her country 58 times and made 44 tries.

Life

Merchant was born in 1985 and was playing serious rugby when she was sixteen. She graduated from Birmingham University in Sport and Exercise Science in 2007.[1]

She was playing for Worcester when she began her nine-year international career during the 2005 Six Nations. She played the 7 player and 15 player game and took part in two World Cups in both variations.[2] She represented England at the 2010 Women's Rugby World Cup [3] and was named in the squad for the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup.[4] She was a member of the squad to the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens [5]

She announced her retirement in September 2014 with immediate effect on medical grounds as she had taken a number of concussions.[2]

In 2015 she was the coach for the Women's rugby team from Sri Lanka.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Page not found". Sport and Fitness Birmingham. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
  2. 1 2 "Trio of Women's Rugby World Cup winners retire". RFU. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
  3. ↑ BBC Sport (20 August 2010). "England Women storm to opening World Cup win over Irish". Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  4. ↑ intheloose.com (10 July 2014). "Street Names England Women's Rugby World Cup Squad". Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  5. ↑ Alison Donnelly (Scrum Queens) (June 2013). "World Cup 7s Squads". Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  6. ↑ ThePapare.com (2015-11-07), Kat Merchant - Sri Lanka Women's Rugby Coach, retrieved 2017-08-22
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