Ben Breeze
Birth name | Ben Breeze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 8 April 1974 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Exeter, Devon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 13 st 0 lb (83 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University | Loughborough University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Children | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Chief Community Officer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ben Breeze (born 8 April 1974, in Exeter) is an English born rugby union player who represented England U21, England Students and England 7's, as well as Wales A and Wales 7's. A winger or fullback, he played his club rugby for Bristol (1995-1999), Newport RFC (1999-2003), Newport Gwent Dragons (2003-2006) and Exeter Chiefs (2006-2010).
On 25 March 2016 he coached and played for Rwanda at the GFI Rugby Tens in Hong Kong, technically making him a triple international.
Breeze now heads up Stephen Lansdown's "Bristol Sport Foundation", having reformed the Bristol Rugby Community Foundation in 1996, restructuring it as a charity in 2010.
In 2015, he was presented with a ten-year Special Achievement Award by Premiership Rugby and All Party Parliamentary Group at the Houses of Parliament.[1]
References[]
- ^ "Foundation CEO to be presented with Special Achievement Award". Bristol Bears Website. 17 June 2015. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
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- 1974 births
- Living people
- Bristol Bears players
- Dragons (rugby union) players
- English rugby union players
- Exeter Chiefs players
- Newport RFC players
- Rugby union players from Exeter
- Welsh rugby union biography stubs
- English rugby union biography stubs