Marie Yamaguchi
| Date of birth | October 22, 1989 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Place of birth | Japan | ||
| Height | 159 cm (5 ft 3 in) | ||
| Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) | ||
| Rugby union career | |||
| Current status | |||
| Position(s) | Winger | ||
| Current team | Rugirl-7 | ||
| Sevens national teams | |||
| Years | Club / team | Comps | |
| 10 | Japan | ||
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Marie Yamaguchi (山口真理恵; born 22 October 1989) is a Japanese rugby sevens player.[1] She plays as a Winger.
Career
Yamaguchi started to play tag rugby when she was 10 years old.[2] Her coach Keiko Asami taught her to play rugby when she was twelve.[3] Yamaguchi was also a member of a track and field club for three years at junior high school, in which she did sprint and jump.[2] She was good at that level but could not attend the Nations due to injury from rugby training.[2] Yamaguchi was a member of the Yokohama Rugby Academy until she was fifteen years old. She joined Tokyo Phoenix when she was sixteen.[2] She was also selected as a national team player.[2]
Yamaguchi went to Australia as an exchange student when she was nineteen years old, where she played for the Women's Club Team of the University of Sydney for three years.[3] After graduating, she had a short stint at the HUIA rugby football in New Zealand in 2012. Since then, she has returned to Japan and currently works full-time as an office worker. Since 2012, she is a member of Rugirl-7.[4] She attends rugby practices three times a week and in the weekend she attends training camps or rugby practices as a member of the Japanese national team.
To date, Yamaguchi is a regular for the Japanese rugby national team.[2] She represented Japan at Asia Sevens in 2007, 2009 and 2010, Asian Rugby Union Game in 2008, Sevens World Cup in 2009, the Asian World Cup Qualification in 2009 and the Asian Four Nations in China in 2012. Yamaguchi also took part in the 2016 Rio Olympics, in which she participated in the Rugby sevens. Although Japan did not score any medals, Yamaguchi scored two tries against Kenya.[5]
References
- ↑ "Marie Yamaguchi". Australian Rugby. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Profile: Marie Yamaguchi". Sruwomens. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- 1 2 "Player - Marie Yamaguchi". Asia Women's Rugby. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ↑ "Japan seeking to stand out from the crowd". Scrumqueens.com. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ↑ "Japan 24, Kenya 0". Chron. Retrieved 8 August 2016.