Rachel Wikeepa

Rachel Wikeepa
Rugby union career
Provincial / State sides
Years Team Apps (Points)
Bay of Plenty (0)
National sevens team
Years Team Comps
2009  New Zealand

Rachel Wikeepa is a former New Zealand rugby sevens player. She represented New Zealand at the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Dubai.

Biography

Wikeepa is a former New Zealand Touch and Māori Women's Rugby League player. She has represented her regions and New Zealand in several sports; netball, athletics, rugby, rugby league, rugby sevens and touch.

In 2001, Wikeepa was named in the Black Ferns sevens Development Squad for the International Women's Sevens Tournament at Upper Hutt. She was named in a 22-women trial squad for the inaugural Women's Rugby World Cup Sevens in 2009.

Wikeepa took part in a charity boxing event that was held at the G2 Bar and Events Centre in Tauranga in 2013.

References

  1. ↑ "Injury forces change to NZ Sevens squad". Stuff. 1 April 2009. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  2. ↑ "Rugby: NZ women's World Cup sevens squad named". The New Zealand Herald. 25 February 2009. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  3. 1 2 Tiananga, Tamati (25 September 2013). "Will Wikeepa go pro in boxing?". Māori Television. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  4. ↑ "Rugby - Sport News". The New Zealand Herald. 2 February 2001. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  5. ↑ "Trial squad announced for NZ women's sevens team". RNZ. 6 February 2009. Retrieved 17 June 2022.