Birth name | Renee Wickliffe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 30 May 1987 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 63 kg (9 st 13 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Renee Woodman-Wickliffe (née Wickliffe; born 30 May 1987) is a New Zealand rugby union player. She represents New Zealand and Auckland. She was in the squad that won the 2010 Rugby World Cup and the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens.
Wickliffe was named in the Black Ferns squad to the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup. [1] She was included in the Black Ferns squad for the 2015 Women's Rugby Super Series in Canada [2] and was named in the squad for the 2017 Rugby World Cup. [3] [4]
In 2019 she was part of the winning team of the Super Series, [5] scoring a hat-trick in the final deciding game against England. [6]
Wickliffe was named in the Chiefs squad for the inaugural season of Super Rugby Aupiki in 2022. [7] [8] She was called in as an injury replacement for the Black Ferns squad to the 2022 Pacific Four Series. [9]
Wickliffe made the Black Ferns 32-player squad for the delayed 2021 Rugby World Cup. [10] [4] She scored a brace of tries against a scoreless Scotland in the Black Ferns final pool game . [11] [12]
Wickliffe has been in a long-term relationship with fellow Black Fern and World Cup winner Portia Woodman since 2013, and they married in December 2022. They have both adopted the surname Woodman-Wickliffe. [13]
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