Beth Mallard
Birth name | Beth Louise Mallard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | (1981-08-05) 5 August 1981 (age 43) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 85 kg (187 lb; 13 st 5 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University | University of Otago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notable relative(s) | Trevor Mallard (father) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Beth Louise Mallard (born 5 August 1981) is a former New Zealand rugby union player. She played for New Zealand and for Otago and Wellington. She was in the squad that won the 2006 Women's Rugby World Cup.[1]
Career
Mallard began her rugby career at Wellington Girls' College. She is the daughter of former Labour MP Trevor Mallard.[2][3]
Mallard made her provincial debut for Otago in 1999 against Southland in Invercargill. She made her 50th appearance for Otago in 2010.[2] She made her international debut for the Black Ferns on 4 September 2006 against Samoa at Edmonton.
In 2007, She was named in the Black Ferns squad that played Australia in a two test series.[4] She featured in the two tests against England in 2009.[5][6]
Mallard graduated with a doctorate in physiology in 2011 from the University of Otago.[7][8]
References
- ^ "Black Ferns World Cup squad named". NZ Herald. 26 July 2006. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
- ^ a b Hepburn, Steve (10 September 2010). "Rugby: 50th game creeps up quietly on long-serving prop". Otago Daily Times Online News. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
- ^ Boyack, Nicholas (20 November 2022). "Rugby at the heart of home-town farewell to long-time parliamentarian Trevor Mallard". Stuff. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
- ^ "Black Ferns side named". ESPN.com. 14 October 2007. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
- ^ "Test debut for Otago's Kelly Brazier". RNZ. 13 November 2009. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
- ^ Kitson, Robert (20 November 2009). "England women confident of beating New Zealand". the Guardian. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
- ^ Gibb, John (7 May 2011). "Ex-Black Fern also on the ball academically". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
- ^ Mallard, Beth (2011). The role of Toll-like receptor 4 in Concanavalin A-induced immune-mediated hepatitis (Doctoral thesis). OUR Archive, University of Otago. hdl:10523/606.
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