Lenny Woodard

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Lenny Woodard
Personal information
Full nameLenny David Woodard
Born (1976-04-02) 2 April 1976 (age 48)
Croesyceiliog, Cwmbran, Wales
Playing information
Height6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Weight17 st 5 lb (110 kg)
Rugby union
Position Wing
Representative
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
1998 Wales 21000
Rugby league
Position Wing
Club
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
2003–05 Bridgend Blue Bulls
2006 Celtic Crusaders 1040016
Total1040016
Representative
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
1999–05 Wales 530012
Source: [1]

Lenny Woodard (born 2 April 1976) is a professional rugby footballer who played rugby union for Wales as a wing, and rugby league for Wales. [1] [2]

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Background

Woodard was born in Pontypool, Gwent, Wales. He went to Greenlawn Junior school where he first played rugby. He received player of the year and was top scorer scoring a hat-trick in county schools cup final at Rodney Parade. He also represented Pontypool Schools in the DC Thomas Cup final at Bridgend. He represented Gwent schools as well. He attended West Mon comprehensive school and was captain of his very successful year team and was captain of the 1st XV when they beat Millfield School.

He left school with 7 As and 2 Bs from his GCSEs and attended Pontypool College gaining all As in his A-Level grades . He went on to study Human Movement studies at UWIC and went back in 2003 to gain a PGCE in Secondary Education. Whilst at UWIC he was selected for Wales under-21 for the 5 nations campaign in 1996, Wales Students rugby league v England and Great Britain students rugby league tour and test match v France, scoring a try in the test match in a narrow 10-4 win

He is also a WRU Level 3 coach

International honours

Woodard represented Wales (RU) during the 1998 tour of Zimbabwe and South Africa in non-Test matches, and won caps for Wales (RL) while at Pontypridd RFC (RU), and Bridgend Blue Bulls (RL) 1999...2005 (4?)3-caps + 2-caps (interchange/substitute) 3-tries 12-points. [1] He scored a hatrick of tries for Wales v Russia in 2003.

Woodard also played international touch rugby for Wales in the European Cup, scoring the winning try v Scotland.

Woodard also gained international honours in hockey for Wales at U15, U16 and U18 level.

Woodard represented Wales and went onto represent Great Britain Students in rugby league. He played for Swinton Lions and Hull Sharks in the late 1990s and Celtic Crusaders in 2006 season.

Career records

On Friday 2 May 2003, Woodard scored a club record 7-tries for Pontypool in a 90–3 victory over Treorchy RFC. He scored three more tries against Aberavon RFC in the following game to reach a season tally of 44 tries (39 league tries and five in the Principality Cup) and earned the accolade of having Pontypool's best try aggregate since World War I, surpassing the 39-tries scored by David Bishop in the 1983–84 season, but less than the 55-tries scored by wing Tom Robbins in the 1913–14 season.

In October 2009, Woodard scored two tries for Newbridge RFC in the 37–31 league win at Rumney RFC to take him to 150 career tries. [3]

He is the highest try scorer in Welsh league history, amassing 186 league tries. He also scored 16 tries in England (15 for London Welsh and 1 for Pertemps Bees (Birmingham and Solihull). This combined effort saw over 200 league tries and he was also a prolific scorer in cup rugby.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org (RL)". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  2. ↑ Graham Williams, Peter Lush, David Farrar (November 2009). "The British Rugby League Records Book [Page-108…114]". London League Publications Ltd. ISBN   978-1-903659-49-6
  3. ↑ "Lenny Flies to 150 Tries!!". newbridgerfc.co.uk. 31 December 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
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