Rachel Wikeepa

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Rachel Wikeepa
Rugby union career
Provincial / State sides
Years Team Apps (Points)
Bay of Plenty (0)
National sevens team
Years Team Comps
2009  New Zealand

Rachel Wikeepa is a former New Zealand rugby sevens player. She represented New Zealand at the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Dubai.[1][2]

Biography[edit]

Wikeepa is a former New Zealand Touch and Māori Women's Rugby League player. She has represented her regions and New Zealand in several sports; netball, athletics, rugby, rugby league, rugby sevens and touch.[3]

In 2001, Wikeepa was named in the Black Ferns sevens Development Squad for the International Women's Sevens Tournament at Upper Hutt.[4] She was named in a 22-women trial squad for the inaugural Women's Rugby World Cup Sevens in 2009.[5]

Wikeepa took part in a charity boxing event that was held at the G2 Bar and Events Centre in Tauranga in 2013.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Injury forces change to NZ Sevens squad". Stuff. 1 April 2009. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  2. ^ "Rugby: NZ women's World Cup sevens squad named". NZ Herald. 25 February 2009. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  3. ^ a b Tiananga, Tamati (25 September 2013). "Will Wikeepa go pro in boxing?". Māori Television. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  4. ^ "Rugby - Sport News". NZ Herald. 2 February 2001. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  5. ^ "Trial squad announced for NZ women's sevens team". RNZ. 6 February 2009. Retrieved 17 June 2022.