Kathy Baker (rugby union)
Irish rugby union player (born 1998)
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Kathy Baker (born 23 January 1998) is an Irish rugby union player. She was selected as part of the Ireland national rugby sevens team for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
| Born | 23 January 1998[1] | ||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.69 cm (1 in) [3] | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Early life
She is from County Meath and began playing rugby whilst attending King's Hospital School in Dublin.[4]
Career
She made her SVNS World Series debut at the Kitakyushu Sevens in 2018, at the age of 19 years-old.[5][6] She was nominated for Irish Women’s 7s Player of the Year in October 2020.[7][8]
As well as playing domestic rugby for Blackrock College RFC, she was selected to play for Ireland at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens.[9]
She played for the Irish sevens team in the SVNS series in 2023, scoring a try in the Sydney semi final in January 2023.[10] and in the Hong Kong Sevens in March 2023.[11] She was part of the Irish team that qualified for the 2024 Olympics with their performance at the World Rugby Seven Series in Australia in May 2023.[12]
She was subsequently selected for the 2024 Paris Olympics after recovering from a long-term knee injury in time for selection.[13][14]
