 playing for Worcester in 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 29 October 1985 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Brighton, East Sussex, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb; 11 st 5 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Katherine Elizabeth "Kat" Merchant (born 29 October 1985) is an English female rugby union player who represented her country 58 times and scored 44 tries.
Life
Merchant 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 Sri Lanka national team.[6] As of September 2021[update] she was a personal trainer,[7] and coach of Old Streetonians Rugby Club in central London.
References
- ^ "Rugby alumni". University of Birmingham Sport. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015.
- ^ a b "Trio of Women's Rugby World Cup winners retire". England Rugby. RFU. 8 September 2014. Archived from the original on 29 March 2015.
- ^ "England Women storm to opening World Cup win over Irish". BBC Sport. 20 August 2010. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ^ "Street Names England Women's Rugby World Cup Squad". In the Loose. 10 July 2014. Archived from the original on 28 October 2015.
- ^ Alison Donnelly (June 2013). "World Cup 7s Squads". Scrum Queens. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
- ^ "Kat Merchant - Sri Lanka Women's Rugby Coach". YouTube. ThePapare.com. 7 November 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
- ^ "Women's rugby star Kat Merchant hits out at online trolls". BBC News. 17 September 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
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