Lauren Torley
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| Date of birth | 2 September 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 176 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 79 kg (174 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lauren Torley (born 2 September 1999) is an English rugby union player.
Personal life[edit]
Torley attended Claytons Primary School and then Beaconsfield High School.
Career[edit]
It was in the summer of 2018 that Torley took up Touch Rugby. She had moved on to contact rugby in Newcastle by the autumn of 2019. Torley had not played sevens rugby prior to being called up by England sevens squad for training in March 2022. She was then subsequently selected for the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series event in Langford, Canada, in late April and early May 2022.[1][2][3] Torley was selected to play for England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in rugby sevens.[4] She was named in the England squad for the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens – Women's tournament held in Cape Town, South Africa in September 2022.[5] She was a selected as a member of the GB sevens squad for the 2023 European Games.[6] Great Britain won a gold medal at the event and sealed qualification for the 2024 Olympic Games.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ July 2022, Gary Heatly Thursday 21. "Lauren Torley Exclusive: "It has been a crazy few months - I am just embracing it all"". Talkingrugbyunion.co.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Flackwell Heath's Lauren Torley named in England's rugby sevens squad". Sloughexpress.co.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
- ^ "Touch Rugby springboarding women into top flight ranks". Englandtouch.org.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
- ^ "RFU". Englandrugby.com. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
- ^ "ENGLAND SQUADS FOR RUGBY WORLD CUP SEVENS NAMED". Englandrugby.com.
- ^ "European Games: Rugby sevens stars zero in on Paris 2024 prize". Team GB. 7 June 2023. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
- ^ "European Games 2023: 'Huge relief' as GB women's sevens team win gold to land Olympics spot". BBC Sport. 27 June 2023. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
- 1999 births
- Living people
- England international women's rugby sevens players
- English female rugby union players
- Rugby sevens players at the 2023 European Games
- European Games medalists in rugby sevens
- European Games gold medalists for Great Britain
- Rugby union players from Buckinghamshire
- Great Britain women's international rugby sevens players
- Commonwealth Games rugby sevens players for England
- Rugby sevens players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Rugby union fullbacks
- Darlington Mowden Park Sharks players