| Date of birth | April 3, 1990 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Carmarthen, Wales | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
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Jenny Hawkins (born 3 April 1990) is a Welsh rugby union player. She plays second row and has been capped 16 times for Wales.
Hawkins made her international debut for Wales against Italy in 2014. She was also a part of the Welsh team for the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup in France. [1]
In 2015, she was selected again for Wales for the Six Nations Championship. [2]
Hawkins is a PhD student at Cardiff University and the National Botanic Garden of Wales. [3]
The Wales national rugby union team represents Wales in men's international rugby union. Its governing body, the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU), was established in 1881, the same year that Wales played their first international against England. The team plays its home matches at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, which replaced Cardiff Arms Park as the national stadium of Wales in 1999.
Sport in Wales plays a prominent role in Welsh culture. Like the other countries of the United Kingdom, Wales enjoys independent representation in major world sporting events such as the FIFA World Cup and in the Rugby World Cup, but competes as part of Great Britain in some other competitions, including the Olympics.
The Wales women's national rugby union team first played in 1987. Wales plays in the Women's Rugby World Cup and the Women's Six Nations Championship.
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