Natasha Hunt

Natasha Hunt
Date of birth (1989-03-21) 21 March 1989
Place of birth Gloucester, England
Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 63 kg (139 lb)
School Dene Magna School
Occupation(s) International Rugby Player, Teacher
Rugby union career
Position(s) Scrum-Half
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
20xx–20xx
20xx–20xx
20xx–20xx
20xx–20xx		 Malvern
Bath
Bristol Ladies
Lichfield Ladies		 -- --
National team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
2010- England 41 (41)
National sevens team(s)
Years Team Comps
2016 England
Medal record
Women's rugby sevens
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
2018 Gold CoastTeam

Natasha "Mo" Hunt (born 21 March 1989) is an English female rugby union footballer who plays scrum-half for Lichfield and for England. She is also a qualified teacher.

Personal life

Hunt is a qualified teacher and previously trained at King Edward's School Birmingham in PE, before teaching at Sir Graham Balfour School in Stafford, also as a PE teacher. Hunt communicates with fans via the use of Twitter and her inspirations in rugby have been the former England Women's captain Sue Day and Susie Appleby. She has a best friend called Emily Andrews who is also a semi- professional rugby player. [1]

England

Hunt has represented England Under 20s, England A, England sevens as well as the England women's national rugby union team. Hunt played for England in the RBS 6 Nations as well as in the rugby 7s world tournament,winning both.

In 2014, Hunt made several appearances for England Women, helping them achieve their second world title and earning a professional contract in the process.[2] She was named in the squad for the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup in Ireland.[3][4] She was in the starting team for the World Cup final 2017 and performed very under par as England were beaten.

Honours

References

  1. ↑ "Natasha Hunt - Official RFU England Profile". Rugby Football Union. Archived from the original on 10 January 2012. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  2. ↑ Duffin, Claire (25 August 2014). "England Women's Rugby World Cup winners to be paid to play, RFU announces". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-09-03.
  3. ↑ "England announce squad for 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup". RFU. 29 June 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-20.
  4. ↑ Mockford, Sarah (2017-06-29). "England name their squad for their Women's Rugby World Cup defence". Rugby World. Retrieved 2017-09-20.


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