Holly Aitchison
Date of birth | 13 September 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Southport, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Holly Aitchison (born 21 February 1997) is an English rugby union player.
Born in Southport, she attended St Peter’s Primary School and Range High School in Formby where she was coached by Gill Burns. Aitchison is the daughter of former England Saxon and rugby coach Ian Aitchison.[1] She played for Waterloo Ladies as a junior and Gloucester-Hartpury Women and Lichfield Ladies. She was a two-time U18 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens champion with England and a member of the squad that lifted the Challenge Trophy at the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens.[2]
In September 2020 she joined Saracens Women.[3] In 2021 she played for the Great Britain Rugby Sevens squad in the delayed 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo, where they finished fourth.[4] In October 2021, she scored a try on her debut for the England 15s team.[5]
References[]
- ^ "RFU". www.englandrugby.com.
- ^ "'You cannot step foot on the rugby pitch because you're going to get broken'". www.rugbypass.com.
- ^ Hancock, Lewis (September 8, 2020). "England Sevens flyer Aitchison joins Saracens Women".
- ^ "RFU". www.englandrugby.com.
- ^ "England 43-12 New Zealand: Red Roses thrash Black Ferns". BBC Sport. 31 October 2021. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- 1987 births
- Living people
- English female rugby league players
- English rugby union players
- Olympic rugby sevens players of Great Britain
- Rugby sevens players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Rugby league players from Southport
- Rugby union players from Southport
- English rugby union biography stubs