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Rebecca Tavo
Date of birth (1983-03-23) 23 March 1983 (age 41)
Place of birthPort Hedland, Western Australia
Height1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
WeightTemplate:Unit weight
Rugby union career
Position(s) -
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2011 Australia (touch)

Rebecca Tavo (born 23 March 1983 in Port Hedland, Western Australia) is an Australian, dual international, rugby union and Touch football player. She is the former captain for the Australian women's sevens team.[1] She played at the 2009 and 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens.[2]

Tavo was part of the Champion Australian Women’s Touch team at the 2011 Touch World Cup in Scotland.[3]

In 2006 she became BHP Billiton's first female train driver .[4] She is also the first Rotuman female [5] to play rugby internationally.

In 2015, she changed allegiance and played for the Fijiana team in the Oceania 7's helping them to win the tournament as well as qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games.[6][7]

References

  1. ^ UR7s.com (17 November 2011). "New Australia Captain, Rebecca Tavo working hard on and off the field". Retrieved 5 August 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ ESPN Scrum (31 May 2013). "Australia well placed to defend World Cup". Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  3. ^ Australian Rugby Union (2012). "2012 Meet the Ambassadors". Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  4. ^ Greg Growden (13 March 2009). "Driven Tavo makes tracks to training". Retrieved 5 August 2012.
  5. ^ http://www.rotuma.net/os/sports/sports2009/sports0901.htm
  6. ^ Mannan, Justine (7 November 2015). "Tavo: Team Can Do Awesome Things". Fiji Sun.com.fj. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  7. ^ Bola-Bari, Vuniwaqa (16 November 2015). "Road to Rio". The Fiji Times Online. Fiji Times.com. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
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