| Date of birth | 12 May 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| School | International College Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | University of Queensland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kelsie Bouttle (born 12 May 1999) [1] is a Hong Kong women's rugby union player. She plays as a centre for Valley RFC and the Hong Kong women's national rugby union team. [2]
Bouttle is the daughter of Shelley Bouttle, part of the Hong Kong women's team's first rugby tour and the Royal Hong Kong Police team that reached the final of the Dubai Women's Sevens in 1994. [3] Bouttle started playing junior rugby for the Flying Kukris and while she was studying at the International College Hong Kong, she was chosen to represent Hong Kong girl's under-18s rugby sevens team, in the first ever Asia Rugby under-18s Girl's Sevens Championship. [4] She first started playing rugby at senior level at Valley RFC. [2]
In 2017, Bouttle made her debut for the Hong Kong women's national rugby union team in the 2017 Asia Women's Rugby Championship against the Japan women's national rugby union team. [2] She was selected later that year to play for Hong Kong at the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup in Ireland. [5] During the tournament, she made her first start against the New Zealand women's national rugby union team. [6]
The Hong Kong Sevens is a rugby sevens tournament held annually in Hong Kong on a weekend in late March or early April. Considered the premier tournament on the World Rugby Sevens Series competition, the Hong Kong Sevens is currently the seventh tournament on the World Series calendar. The tournament spans three days, beginning on a Friday and concluding on Sunday. The tournament is organised each year by the Hong Kong Rugby Union (HKRU). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 respectively. The latest Hong Kong Rugby Sevens is being held on Friday 5 April, Saturday 6 April, Sunday 7 April 2024.
The Hong Kong national rugby union team, nicknamed the Dragons, has made the qualifying rounds of the Rugby World Cup. Rugby union in Hong Kong is administered by the Hong Kong Rugby Union since 1952, and successfully competes annually in the Asia Rugby Championship.
Rugby union in China is a growing sport; however, it is still not overly popular. China became affiliated to the International Rugby Board in 1997 and as of 1 July 2019, its women's XV side was ranked 24th and its men's XV side 80th in the world. Neither the women's team nor the men's team has yet qualified for a Women's Rugby World Cup or a men's Rugby World Cup. However, China has hopes of one day hosting the men's event, and World Rugby has indicated it supports taking the event there.
The Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Series is the regional championship for women's international rugby sevens in Asia. Initially contested as a single tournament, the championship was expanded into a two-tournament series in 2014. The competition is sanctioned and sponsored by Asia Rugby, which is the rugby union governing body for the region.
The Dubai Women's Sevens is an annual rugby sevens tournament held in Dubai, UAE. The tournament includes several competitions including, since 1994, an international women's invitational competition. Though most entrants are ad hoc sides composed of club and international players from a variety of countries, some are official national selections - the results of matches between such sides appear below.
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