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Date of birth | 26 May 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Taunton, Somerset, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 63 kg (139 lb; 9 st 13 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Leia Brebner-Holden (born 26 May 2002), is an English born Scottish rugby union player who often plays Scrum-half. She plays for Gloucester-Hartpury in Premiership Women's Rugby, Cheltenham Tigers Women in the English second division, as well as the Scotland national team.
Brebner-Holden was born in Taunton, Somerset to an English father and a Scottish mother, She began playing rugby union in the United Arab Emirates, with the Al Ain Amblers club at age 9 and she also played for the UAE Sand Cats. [1] When she returned to the UK, she earned rugby scholarships with Hartpury College and University. [1] She then went on to join Gloucester-Hartpury where she was dual-registered with local second division club Cheltenham Tigers Women. [2]
Brebner-Holden was selected for Scotland's 2024 Six Nations squad, where head coach Bryan Easson considered her to be "the 24th/25th player in the team", on the doorstep of the selection. [3] [4] During the summer of 2024, she played with the Scottish Under-20 team at the Six Nations Summer Series in Italy. [5] [1] She was named in the squad for the 2024 WXV 2 tournament. [6]
Brebner-Holden won her first cap in a warm-up match against Wales [7] and made her first starting XV's appearance in Scotland's last game of the tournament proper against Australia. [8] [9] In October 2024, she joined Loughborough Lightning. [10]
She was named in Scotland's squad for the 2025 Six Nations Championship in March. [11] [12] She was also selected in the Scottish side for the Women's Rugby World Cup in England. [13] [14]