Emma Uren
 Emma Uren at the 2022 Commonwealth Games | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 1 October 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Emma Uren (born 1 October 1997) is an English rugby union player who plays for Trailfinders Women in Premiership Women's Rugby.
Career
[edit]Born in Chiswick and brought up in Twickenham, she first played for Richmond Borough, winning the London Youth Games aged 11. At Orleans Park School, she played rugby league before taking up union at 16 for Grasshoppers RFC in Isleworth. Uren was further educated at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, studying Strength and Conditioning Sciences. She split her final year of studies into two to take up a contract with the England women's national rugby sevens team. She captained England U20s to their first ever victory against France in France in March 2018 and played a number of Tyrrells Premier 15s games for season champions Saracens Ladies.[1] She signed for Trailfinders Women ahead of the 2023/24 Premiership Women's Rugby Season.[2]
In June 2021 she was confirmed in the Great Britain Rugby Sevens squad for the delayed 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo.[3] She was named in the England squad for the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens – Women's tournament held in Cape Town, South Africa in September 2022.[4] She was a selected as a member of the GB sevens squad for the 2023 European Games.[5] Great Britain won a gold medal at the event and sealed qualification for the 2024 Olympic Games.[6] In June 2024, she was named in the British squad for the Olympic Games.[7] The team finished seventh.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "RFU".
- ^ "Emma Uren". Ealing Trailfinders Rugby Club. 31 August 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
- ^ "RFU".
- ^ "ENGLAND SQUADS FOR RUGBY WORLD CUP SEVENS NAMED". Englandrugby.com. Archived from the original on 26 September 2022. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
- ^ "European Games: Rugby sevens stars zero in on Paris 2024 prize". Team GB. 7 June 2023. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
- ^ "European Games 2023: 'Huge relief' as GB women's sevens team win gold to land Olympics spot". BBC Sport. 27 June 2023. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
- ^ Southcombe, Matt (19 June 2024). "Welsh speedster Jasmine Joyce makes history with Team GB Paris Olympics call-up". ITV.com. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ^ "Around the Games: Day Four of Paris 2024". Team GB. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
External links
[edit]- Emma Uren at the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series (archived)
- Emma Uren at Olympedia (archive)
- Emma Uren at Olympics.com
- Emma Uren at Team GB
- Emma Uren at Team England
- Emma Uren at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- Emma Uren at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Emma Uren on Instagram
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- 1997 births
- Living people
- Olympic rugby sevens players for Great Britain
- Rugby sevens players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Rugby union players from the London Borough of Hounslow
- English female rugby union players
- England international women's rugby sevens players
- People from Chiswick
- Rugby sevens players at the 2023 European Games
- European Games medalists in rugby sevens
- European Games gold medalists for Great Britain
- Rugby union players from the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
- Alumni of St Mary's University, Twickenham
- Great Britain women's international rugby sevens players
- Ealing Trailfinders Women players
- Commonwealth Games rugby sevens players for England
- Rugby sevens players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Rugby sevens players at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century English sportswomen
- English rugby union biography stubs