Cheryl Moana Waaka
Date of birth | 12 May 1970 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 80 kg (180 lb; 12 st 8 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cheryl Waaka (born 12 May 1970) is a former female rugby union player. She represented New Zealand and Auckland as a flanker or number 8 forward.
She made her debut against England in 1997 and was in the squad that won the 1998 and 2002 Women's Rugby World Cup.[1]
In 2005, Waaka became the first woman in Northland to coach a senior men's club rugby team.[2]
References[]
- ^ BBC Sport (25 May 2002). "Black Ferns too strong for England". Retrieved 9 July 2014.
- ^ Tim Eves (The Northern Advocate) NZ Herald (9 June 2005). "Cheryl passes on her rugby knowledge to men's team". Retrieved 9 July 2014.
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Categories:
- 1970 births
- Living people
- New Zealand female rugby union players
- Female rugby union players
- New Zealand rugby union biography, 1970s birth stubs