Connor Doherty
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| Birth name | Connor Sean Doherty | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 18 July 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Manchester, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 93 kg (14 st 9 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | St Ambrose College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Connor Doherty (born 18 July 2000) is an English professional rugby union player who plays as a centre for Premiership Rugby club Sale Sharks.[1]
Rugby career
Doherty was educated at Saint Ambrose College.[2][3] He started playing rugby as a junior at Altrincham Kersal.[4] He joined the academy of Sale Sharks and in November 2017 made his professional club debut in an Anglo-Welsh Cup game against Worcester Warriors at the age of seventeen.[5]
Doherty was part of the England Sevens side who won a silver medal at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games in The Bahamas.[4] He was a member of the England under-20 squad that finished fifth at the 2019 World Rugby Under 20 Championship.[6] The following year saw him score the winning try against Scotland during the 2020 Six Nations Under 20s Championship.[7]
References
- ^ "Connor Doherty". ESPN. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 17 August 2021. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "SHARKS SECURE SIGNATURES OF 4 PROMISING YOUNGSTERS". Sale Sharks. 27 November 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
- ^ a b "Sale Sharks: The next generation". Premiership Rugby. 25 July 2017. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
- ^ "Connor Doherty club statistics". It's Rugby. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
- ^ "World Rugby U20 Championship: England U20 45-26 Wales U20". BBC Sport. 22 June 2019. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
- ^ Lorimer, Alan (7 February 2020). "Scotland U20 17 - 21 England". The Scotsman. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
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