Elise Huffer
US international rugby union player
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Elise Huffer is an Academic and former American rugby union player. She was a member of the United States squad that won the inaugural 1991 Women's Rugby World Cup in Wales.[1][2][3] She also featured at the 1994 Women's Rugby World Cup in Scotland.[4]
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Huffer was born to an American mother and a French father. She has studied in the United States and France.[4] She is a graduate of UCLA.[5] Huffer has worked for 11 years in the Pacific Studies Program as a senior lecturer and as an associate professor at the University of the South Pacific.[4] She also served as human development adviser for the then South Pacific Commission.[4]
Huffer and the 1991 World Cup squad were inducted into the United States Rugby Hall of Fame in 2017.[6][7]