Birth name | Elizabeth Crake | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 8 November 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Bishop's Stortford, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Hockerill Anglo-European College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University | King's College London | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elizabeth "Liz" Crake (born 8 November 1994) [1] is an English rugby union player who currently plays as a loose-head prop [2] for Wasps in the Premier 15s and for the England national team. [1] [3] [4]
Crake attended Hockerill Anglo-European College [5] and later studied at King's College London from 2013 to 2018, earning a BDS in Dentistry. [6] [7] She has continued to pursue a career as a dentist alongside her rugby career. [6] [7] [8]
Crake joined Wasps in 2014 during her first year of university. She initially played in various back row positions before moving to prop. [1] [7] [9]
Crake was selected in the England squad for the Six Nations in 2023 and made her debut as a replacement against Scotland. [1] [4] [10]
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