Maggie Alphonsi

Maggie Alphonsi
Rugby union career
Date of birth	(1983-12-20) December 20, 1983
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight	73 kg (161 lb)
Playing career
Position	Flanker
Professional / senior clubs
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
	Saracens
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
	England	70

Margaret "Maggie" Alphonsi MBE (born 20 December 1983) is an English women's rugby player who plays as a flanker for Saracens W.R.F.C. and England.^[1] She was Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year in 2010. Maggie was born in Lewisham, South London, and was also born with club foot, which she had to over come in order to play rugby. She retired shortly after England's win of the France 2014 World Cup and now continues to coach and promote female participation and coaching in sport. She is also one of four Rugby World Cup 2015 Ambassadors along with Lawrence Dallaglio, Will Greenwood and Jonny Wilkinson and is an ambassador of several not-for-profits and charities including Peace One Day, Wooden Spoon, Sporting Equals and SKRUM which aims to give the youth of Africa hope for the future through rugby. She has played in two XVs Rugby World Cups and in 2012 shared in a record-breaking seventh successive Six Nations title and a sixth Grand Slam in seven years. There was also the Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year prize in 2010 and the prestigious Pat Marshall award from the Rugby Union Writers’ Club, where she pipped New Zealand captain, Richie McCaw, to the gong to become the first woman to claim the prize in its 50-year history. Joined Gareth Malone and other celebrities in making the 2014 Children in Need official single.

Maggie hopes to compete in the 2016 Rio Olympics in the Shot discipline. http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/feb/28/maggie-alphonsi-womens-rugby-union-athletics-olympics-shot-put

References

↑ "Margaret Alphonsi - Official RFU England Profile". rfu.com. Retrieved 2014-08-01.

Squads

England 2014 WRWC Squad

Forwards	Clark Hemming Purdy Croker Essex McGilchrist Taylor Alphonsi Fisher Hunter Keates Fleetwood Matthews Packer

Backs	Hunt Mason McLean Waterman Burford Scarratt Merchant Large Allan Reed Brennan Thompson Wilson

Coach	Street

England 2010 WRWC Squad

Forwards	Clark Crowley Hemming Purdy Croker Garnett Essex McGilchrist Taylor Alphonsi Fisher Hunter Beale Spencer

Backs	Mason Turner McLean Richardson Burford Scarratt Barras Merchant Penrith Pocock Staniford Oliver Waterman

Coach	Street

England 2006 WRWC Squad

Forwards	Alphonsi Clark Garnett Gray Sutton Taylor Stevens Spencer Rudge Storie Lyne Clayton Baker Huxford

Backs	Yapp Day Turner Rae Staniford Andrew Shaylor Oliver Crawford Barras Burford Waterman

Coach	Richards

2003 -

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