Grace Moore (rugby union)
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| Date of birth | 21 May 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb; 11 st 7 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Grace Moore (born 21 May 1996) is an Irish rugby player from London, England. She plays for Railway Union and the Ireland women's national rugby union team.
Club career
[edit]London-born Moore's first club was Streatham-Croydon R.F.C. and she concentrated on rugby with them in 2018, her last year in university. She joined Premier 15s side Richmond Women a year later. She was a winger when she started but finished the season in their back row. She joined All-Ireland League side Railway Union in Dublin in 2020.
Moore signed with Saracens ahead of the 2022–23 Premier 15s season.[1] She later joined Ealing Trailfinders for the 2024–25 Premiership Women's Rugby season.[2][3]
International career
[edit]Moore’s potential to play for Ireland was identified by Steven McGinnis through Irish Rugby Union's IQ (Irish Qualified) Programme.[4] Her talent was developed through the Ireland women's national rugby sevens programme and she made her debut in the Dubai Sevens in December 2019.[5]
With international sevens in a hiatus in due to the global pandemic in 2020 she was selected to train with Ireland women's national rugby union team in the winter of 2020.
She was one of five new Sevens players introduced to the Irish squad for the 2021 Women's Six Nations.[6] She made her 2021 Women's Six Nations debut, as a replacement, in the third/fourth place playoff against Italy.[7]
She was selected for the Ireland women's national rugby sevens team for the 2021–2022 season.[8]
She was selected in the Ireland squad to compete at the WXV1 tournament in Canada in September 2024.[9] She was named in Ireland's fifteens side for the 2025 Six Nations Championship in March.[10][11]
Personal life
[edit]Moore played netball and volleyball to a high level before switching to rugby. She was a primary school PE teacher in England before being contracted to the Irish Rugby Union Sevens programme in 2020.She is training to be a physical trainer at Setanta College.
References
[edit]- ^ "Grace Moore: Ireland and Saracens rugby player requested boot sponsor on social media". www.skysports.com. 18 November 2023. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
- ^ Scott-Munro, Harry (15 July 2024). "Grace Moore to join Trailfinders Women". Saracens. Retrieved 22 March 2025.
- ^ Reed, Alex (15 July 2024). "Welcome Grace Moore!". Ealing Trailfinders Rugby Club. Retrieved 22 March 2025.
- ^ "Moore And McGinnis On IQ Rugby Pathway For Women". Irish Rugby. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
- ^ "Ireland Sevens Development Squads named for Dubai Invitational Tournament". Ulster Rugby. 3 December 2019. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
- ^ "Five uncapped Sevens players named in Ireland squad for Women's Six Nations". The Irish Times. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
- ^ "Ireland beat Italy to secure third place". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
- ^ "Parsons and Wall included in Ireland Sevens squad". RTÉ. 10 August 2021.
- ^ Kelly, David (17 September 2024). "Scott Bemand names 30-player Ireland squad for upcoming WXV1 campaign in Vancouver". Independent.ie. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ "Bemand Names Ireland Preparation Squad For Guinness Women's Six Nations". Irish Rugby. 11 February 2025. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
- ^ "Bemand announces Ireland's squad for Guinness Women's Six Nations". Six Nations Rugby. 12 February 2025. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
External links
[edit]- 1996 births
- Living people
- Irish female rugby union players
- Ireland women's international rugby union players
- Ireland international women's rugby sevens players
- Irish rugby sevens players
- English rugby union players
- People from Croydon
- Rugby union players from the London Borough of Croydon
- English rugby sevens players
- Black British sportswomen
- Black Irish sportspeople
- 21st-century Irish sportswomen
- English people of Irish descent
- Alumni of the University of Brighton
- Rugby union flankers
- Saracens Women rugby players