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    RISING STARS

    Jan 04, 2022 3 minutes
    Interviews Sarah Mockford
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    1 CONNIE POWELL

    Age 21 (13 July 2000) Born Ipswich Position Hooker Club Gloucester-Hartpury Country England

    How did you get involved in rugby? When I was 13 or 14, they got girls’ rugby going at Hadleigh High School and it kicked off from there. I joined a club, Sudbury, and from my first game I got a county trial, and things escalated from there.

    The hard work, trying something new, the friendships I built, the physicality… It was

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