Tess Feury
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| Born | March 15, 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 66 kg (146 lb; 10 st 6 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tess Feury (born March 15, 1996)[1] is an American rugby union player. She competed for the United States at the 2017, 2021 and 2025 Women's Rugby World Cups. She has captained the team on multiple occasions. She currently plays professionally for the Leicester Tigers in the Premiership Women's Rugby competition. Last year she played for the New York Exiles in the inaugural season of the Women's Elite Rugby competition. Tess is an ambassador for the Leicester Tigers Foundation & PitchIn Platform. Tess is also a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner.
Feury was raised in Denville, New Jersey by Tom and KJ Feury.[2] She grew up playing rugby; her father, Tom, was introduced to the sport in college. He started a flag rugby team, the Denville Dawgs,[3] to allow his sons and daughter to play rugby.[4][5] She has two brothers who played rugby at Pennsylvania State University and Middlebury College, and her mother also served as the president of Rugby New Jersey for several years.[6][7] Feury attended Villa Walsh Academy for high school, where she played varsity soccer and ran track and field, and graduated in 2014.[1][7]
Feury attended college at Penn State. In 2018, Feury graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a bachelor's in nursing.[8] Feury has worked as a Pediatric Intensive Care Nurse at Morristown Medical Center.[citation needed]