| Date of birth | 16 September 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Royce Chan Leong-sze (born 16 September 1978) is a former Hong Kong rugby union player. She has represented Hong Kong internationally in rugby fifteens and sevens. [1] She competed at the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup in Ireland. [2] [3]
Chan retired after the 2017 World Cup, she currently works as a women's high performance coach at the Hong Kong Rugby Union. [4] [5] She captained the Hong Kong women's sevens team at the 2014 Hong Kong Women's Sevens. It was her ninth Hong Kong Women's Sevens appearance. [6] [7] She made her tenth appearance in the tournament in 2015. [8]
In 2019 she was nominated for the Women's Sports Leadership Academy for High Performance Coaches (WSLA). It was a programme partnered by World Rugby and the International Olympic Committee. [4] [9]
Chan was announced as Head of Women’s Rugby Performance by the Hong Kong Rugby Union on 8 March 2023. [10] [11] She had coached Hong Kong at the 2022 Asia Rugby Women's Championship when they beat Kazakhstan to win the series. [10] [11]
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