Amanda Thornborough
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Born2 July 1990
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight68 kg (150 lb)
SchoolVincent Massey High School
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| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Vincent Massey High School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | St. Francis Xavier University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Amanda Thornborough (born 2 July 1990) is a Canadian rugby union player. She has represented Canada at the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup.[2][3] and 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup. She made her international debut in 2013 at the 2013 Nations Cup and played in the 2013 Hong Kong Sevens.[4]
Thornborough first started playing rugby in high school in 2008 and continued at St. Francis Xavier University.[5]
In 2017, she was invited to join the first ever Barbarians Women's team.[1] She played once more in 2019 for the Barbarians against USA in Denver, Colorado.
In 2024, Amanda was inducted as a player into the Manitoba Rugby Hall of Fame [6]