Jade Knight
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16 February 1989
King's College London
| Born | Jade Phillips 16 February 1989 Llanelli, Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| School | Ysgol y Strade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | Swansea University King's College London | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Midwife | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jade Knight (née Phillips; born 16 February 1989) is a Welsh rugby union player who plays for Saracens Women of the Premier 15s and the Wales women's national rugby union team. She earned her first international cap for Wales in a 2018 Women's Six Nations Championship and she has also played for Richmond Women in the Women's Premiership. Knight works as a midwife while continuing her rugby career.
Knight's birth was on 16 February 1989,[1] and grew up in Llanelli.[2] Her uncle is the Welsh 52-time capped international rugby union player Mark Taylor.[3] She plays rugby in the scrum-half position,[4][5] and was educated at Ysgol Dewi Sent and Ysgol y Strade. Knight's physical education teacher at secondary school encouraged her to play alongside boys until she prohibited from doing so per school regulations. She matriculated to Swansea University and studied medical genetics.[2] She later went on to study to become a midwife at King's College London,[6] having been inspired from support after giving birth when battling Tokophobia.[5] Knight's dissertation was on researching international athletes and the perspective of being pregnant and giving birth.[7]