Michaela Blyde
| Date of birth | 29 December 1995 | ||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | New Plymouth, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Michaela Blyde (born 29 December 1995) is a New Zealand rugby sevens player.
Blyde debuted for New Zealand as a 17-year-old in the 2013 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship.[1]
She was the top try scorer of the 2016–17 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, and was named 2017 World Rugby Women's Sevens Player of the Year.[2][3] In 2018, Blyde was named World Rugby Women's Sevens Player of the Year for the second year running.[4]
Personal life
Blyde is in a relationship with Waikato Chiefs prop Aidan Ross.[5] Her younger brother, Liam Blyde also plays rugby as a developmental trialist for the men's Sevens team.[6]
Achievements and honours
- 2017, Canada Sevens Langford dream team[7]
- 2017, World Rugby Women's Sevens Player of the Year [8]
- 2018, World Rugby Women's Sevens Player of the Year[8]
- 2019, Sydney Sevens performance tracker player of the round[9]
References
- ^ "Taranaki's Michaela Blyde in Sevens heaven". Stuff.co.nz. 4 October 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- ^ "Michaela Blyde reaches her goals and some". Stuff.co.nz. 5 July 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- ^ "New Zealand dominates World Rugby Awards". Radio New Zealand. 27 November 2017. Archived from the original on 1 April 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- ^ "World Rugby Awards: Michaela Blyde best sevens player for second successive year". Stuff.co.nz. 26 November 2018. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
- ^ "Black Ferns' Michaela Blyde in tears after partner Aidan Ross' season-ending injury". Stuff. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
- ^ "Sevens rugby runs in the family for All Blacks hopeful Liam Blyde". Newshub. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
- ^ "Canadians dominate Langford Dream Team". Americas Rugby News. 29 May 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
- ^ a b worldrugby.org. "World Rugby Sevens Players of the Year 2019 nominees announced". www.world.rugby. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
- ^ worldrugby.org. "DHL Performance Tracker - HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series | worldrugby.org/sevens-series". www.world.rugby. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
External links
- Michaela Blyde at the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series (archived)
- All Blacks profile
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- 1995 births
- Living people
- New Zealand female rugby sevens players
- New Zealand international rugby sevens players
- Rugby sevens players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games rugby sevens players of New Zealand
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand
- Commonwealth Games medallists in rugby sevens
- World Rugby Awards winners
- New Zealand rugby union biography, 1990s birth stubs