Ashleigh Orchard (formerly Baxter) (born 21 December 1991) is an Irish female rugby union player and coach. She has made 87 appearances for Ireland Sevens in the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, and represented Ireland at the Women's Rugby World Cup in 2014 and 2017.[1][2]
| Date of birth | 21 December 1991 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 4+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb; 9 st 11 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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She began playing tag rugby before she joined a club in Lisburn; As of 2014, she played for Belfast Harlequins.[3] For the 2022–23 season, she joined the Ulster Women's coaching team, and took a player-coach role at Cooke RFC. She was named Ulster Rugby Personality of the Year in the 2022 Ulster Rugby Awards.[1]
She studied Aerospace engineering at Queen's University Belfast.[4]
References edit
- ^ a b "2021-22 Heineken Ulster Rugby Award winners revealed", Ulster Rugby, 23 June 2022
- ^ IRB.com (1 May 2014). "Ireland women to seek "another level"". Archived from the original on 11 September 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
- ^ Irish Rugby.ie(www.Inpho.ie) (29 July 2014). "Baxter Brimming With Confidence". Retrieved 16 September 2014.
- ^ Queen's University Belfast.ac.uk (February 2012). "Queen's Student to represent Ireland in Six Nations". Archived from the original on 16 September 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2014.