Mele Yua Havili Kagawa
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| Born | 29 September 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 171 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb; 11 st 11 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mele Yua Havili Kagawa (born 29 September 2001) is a Japanese rugby union player. She competed for Japan at the 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup.
Kagawa was born to a Tongan father and a Japanese mother, she started playing rugby at the age of 8.[1] She also participated in swimming from the fourth to sixth grade of elementary school, she competed in the freestyle category and took part in the Junior Olympics.[1][2] She took up athletics in junior high school to develop her speed and recorded a personal best time of 12.9 seconds in the 100 metres, she won the prefectural relay championship.[1]
In 2020, after graduating from Kumagaya Girls' High School, she enrolled at the Faculty of Sport Sciences at Waseda University.[3] After she graduated from university, she studied abroad in New Zealand and the United States.[3]