Eloise Webb

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Eloise Webb
Date of birth (1996-03-05) 5 March 1996 (age 27)
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight64 kg (141 lb)
Rugby union career
Senior career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Border Ladies (0)
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2019 – presentFlag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 10 (30)
National sevens team(s)
YearsTeamComps
Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 35 (14 pts)

Eloise Webb (born 5 March 1996) is a South African rugby player. She has represented South Africa internationally in rugby sevens and fifteens.

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Background

Webb participated in cricket and javelin at the junior national levels. She also played in the Varsity Sports netball competition. [1] She studied at Nelson Mandela University for a Bachelor of Education degree in Intermediate Phase Teaching.

Rugby career

2018–19

In 2018, Webb competed for South Africa in the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Queensland. [2] [1] She later featured for South Africa at the Rugby World Cup Sevens in San Francisco. [3] [1] She scored a hat-trick in her international test debut for the Springbok Women against Uganda in the 2019 Rugby Africa Women's Cup. [1]

2022

Webb was named in South Africa's sevens squad for the 2022 sevens season and featured in the France Women's Sevens. [4] [5] [6] She scored a try in the final of the 2022 Africa Women's Sevens and helped her side qualify for the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. [7]

Webb was selected for the South African squad for the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town. [8] [9] She was also named in South Africa's women's fifteens team for the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. [10]

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