| Date of birth | May 30, 1972 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Dunedin, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jacinta Nielsen (born May 30, 1972) is a former New Zealand rugby union player. She debuted for the Black Ferns on 16 August 1997 against Australia at Dunedin. [1] She was selected for the 1998 Women's Rugby World Cup squad. [1]
She played club rugby for Alhambra-Union. [2]
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Kendra Margaret Cocksedge is a New Zealand rugby union player and cricketer. She plays for the New Zealand women's national rugby union side, the Black Ferns and for Canterbury provincially. She was a member of the 2010, 2017 and 2021 winning squads. In 2018 she won the Kelvin R Tremain Memorial Player of the Year Award at the annual New Zealand Rugby awards.
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Portia Woodman is a New Zealand rugby union player. She plays fifteen-a-side and seven-a-side rugby union, and is a member of the New Zealand Women's Sevens team and New Zealand Women's National Rugby Union team. Woodman was a member of the New Zealand Women's Sevens team when they won a gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
Ruby Tui is a New Zealand rugby union player. She competed internationally when the national rugby sevens team won the silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics tournament. She won a gold medal in rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She was a member of the Black Ferns team that won the 2021 Rugby World Cup.
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Kathleen Wilton is a former rugby union player. She made her Black Ferns debut on 16 October 2007 against Australia. She was selected for the New Zealand squad to the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup. They unfortunately lost to Ireland in the pool games, which meant that they did not qualify for the semifinals. She came off the bench in their fifth place final victory over the United States.
