 | This article needs to be updated. The reason given is: Now a coach and no longer playing.. (November 2023) |
| Date of birth | 13 June 1983 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 75 kg (11 st 11 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Aberaeron | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | Cardiff Metropolitan University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Paraveterinary worker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rachel Taylor (born 13 June 1983) is a Welsh former rugby union player who plays in either Lock or back row for the Bristol Ladies/Newport Gwent Dragons and the Wales women's national rugby union team. She won her first international cap against Canada in 2007, and has since captained the team. Following retirement in 2018, she became the first female head coach of a WRU National League club side,[1] before becoming the skills coach for Wales Women between November 2020 and February 2021.[2] In September 2021, Taylor joined Premiership Womens Rugby team Sale Sharks Women as the club's performance coach.[3]
- ^ "New role for ex Wales skipper". Scrum Queens. 8 July 2018. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
- ^ "Rachel Taylor: Wales skills coach resigns ahead of 2021 Women's Six Nations start". BBC Sport. 25 March 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
- ^ Diamond, Sam (1 September 2021). "Former Wales star Taylor joins Sharks Women's coaching team". Sale Sharks. Retrieved 9 September 2024.