Jillion Potter
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| Born | Jillion Paige Potter June 5, 1986 Austin, Texas, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Education | La Cueva High School | ||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of New Mexico | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 174 lb (79 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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Jillion Paige Potter (born July 5, 1986) is an American rugby union player. She is the captain of the 2016 USA Olympic women's rugby sevens team.
Childhood
Jillion Potter was born as Jillian Paige Potter in Austin, Texas to parents Scott Potter and Vikki Vranich. She has a twin brother Paul Thomas Potter and older sister Molly Potter Grosskopf.[1]
Rugby career
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Potter has played for over a decade including the 2013 Women’s Rugby Sevens World Cup, 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup and 2016 Olympics.[2] She was a recipient of the inaugural Leadership Development Scholarship alongside Ada Milby (Philippines), Samantha Feausi (Hong Kong), Maha Zaoui (Tunisia), Rolande Boro (Burkina Faso), Dr. Araba "Roo" Chintoh (Canada), and Maria Thomas (Trinidad and Tobago). She began her rugby career at the University of New Mexico.
In 2019, she was on the first panel to determine the World Rugby women's-15s player-of-the-year award with Melodie Robinson, Danielle Waterman, Will Greenwood, Liza Burgess, Lynne Cantwell, Fiona Coghlan, Gaëlle Mignot, Stephen Jones, and Karl Te Nana.[3]
Personal life
She met her wife Carol Fabrizio in 2011, through rugby.[1] She loves flossing her teeth and has her wife carry dental floss with her everywhere.[4] Potter was diagnosed with stage 3 Synovial Sarcoma cancer in 2014 and has since recovered.[5][6][7]
References
- ^ a b "Jillion Potter". TeamUSA. Retrieved August 8, 2016.
- ^ "WORLD RUGBY LEADERSHIP SCHOLARSHIPS DRIVE GENDER PARITY ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY." States News Service, March 7, 2018. Academic OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A530260070/AONE?u=yorku_main&sid=AONE&xid=6ba669a4. Accessed November 9, 2018.
- ^ worldrugby.org. "Stars join new-look World Rugby Awards panels". www.world.rugby. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
- ^ "Thanks to her wife, Jillion Potter can stop thinking about her teeth". February 13, 2016. Retrieved August 8, 2016.
- ^ "Jillion Potter: An inspiration on and off the field". worldrugby.org. Retrieved September 3, 2016.
- ^ Chris Borg; Dan Tham; Andy Stewart (July 20, 2016). "Jillion Potter: U.S. rugby's great survivor". CNN. Retrieved September 3, 2016.
- ^ Meyer, John (August 7, 2016). "Surviving a broken neck and cancer, Jillion Potter becomes an Olympian and part of history". The Denver Post. Retrieved September 3, 2016.
External links
- Jillion Potter at USA Rugby
- Jillion Potter at Team USA (archived)
- Jillion Potter at Olympics.com
- Jillion Potter at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Jillion Potter on Twitter
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- 1986 births
- Living people
- Female rugby sevens players
- United States international rugby sevens players
- Olympic rugby sevens players of the United States
- Rugby sevens players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- LGBT people from Texas
- LGBT rugby union players
- Sportspeople from Austin, Texas
- American rugby union biography stubs