Gillian Bourke
Gillian Bourke (born August 28, 1984) is a female rugby union player. She represented Ireland at the 2010 and 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup, where she was voted the Number 2 position in the WRWC Team of the Tournament.[1]
| Date of birth | August 28, 1984 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Limerick | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 4 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (180 lb; 12 st 8 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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She has 51 caps for Ireland, playing from 2008-2015, winning the Six Nations Grand Slam in 2013, and the Six Nations Championship in 2015.
She was also invited to play with the legendary Barbarians team in February 2018 against the British Army, and again in April 2019 against the USA Women’s National team in Denver, Colorado. She was voted Munster Women’s Player of the Year for the 2017-18 season. [2]
In August 2019, she moved from her club Stade Francais in Paris to join Tyrrell’s Premier 15s giants Harlequins.
Bourke studied Sport Science at the University of Limerick.[3] She is a performance analyst.[4]
She works as a Game Analyst with World Rugby.
References
- "Womens RWC - #WRWC2014 Dream Team revealed after fan vote". web.archive.org. 2014-08-19. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
- IRB.com (1 May 2014). "Ireland women to seek "another level"". Archived from the original on 11 September 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- Munster Rugby.ie (29 July 2014). "RWC: Getting To Know Gillian Bourke". Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- The Score (16 August 2014). "'I love defence, I love tackling' – Ireland hooker Bourke suited to French test". Archived from the original on 2 September 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2014.