 Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 26 April 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Limerick, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 64 kg (141 lb; 10 st 1 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe (26 April 1995) is an Irish rugby union player. She plays for Railway Union, Munster and the Ireland women's national rugby union team. Best known as the star of the Ireland women's national rugby sevens team and a member of the Ireland women's national rugby union team (XVs).
Club career
editMurphy Crowe's credits her speed to running the 100m and doing long jump with Tipperary Athletics Club. She only took up rugby at age 15, joining her local club Clanwilliam RFC in Tipperary Town.
She played for the Munster U18s in 2012 and, in September 2013, was called into training camps for the Ireland women's national sevens rugby team.[1]
Her first Munster senior cap at 15s came in December 2013 in Thomond Park when she was only age 18.
International career
editMurphy Crowe is best known as the topscorer for the Ireland women's national rugby sevens team. She debuted for Ireland in the World Rugby Seven Series in 2014 and is one of the top finishers in the international Sevens game.[2]
She was the overall top try-scorer (35 tries) on the 2018-2019 World Rugby Sevens Series, the first woman from outside New Zealand or Australia, to win it.[3] It also earning her selection on the 2019 World Rugby Sevens' 'Dream Team'.[4]
She scored 70 points in 13 games for Ireland in the 2019-2020 World Rugby Sevens Series. At the end of that season she was ranked 13th highest scorer of all time with 490 points. She has scored 98 tries and 490 points in 131 games for the Ireland women's national rugby sevens team.
The disruption of the 2021 World Rugby Sevens Series made her available for selection for Ireland's 15s. [5]
She got called up to the Irish squad in the Autumn of 2020 and was selected in Ireland's squad for the 2021 Women's Six Nations.[6]
She made her Women's Six Nations debut, as a replacement, against France on April 17 2021. She got her first Six Nations start versus Italy on April 24 2021 when she scored two tries in Ireland's 25-5 victory which left them in third place.[7]
Personal life
editMurphy Crowe was a talented athlete and sprinter
Honours
edit- Top try-scorer of the 2018-2019 World Rugby Sevens Series
References
edit- ^ Kinsella, Murray. "Murphy Crowe making her mark on the world stage with Ireland 7s". The42. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
- ^ Kinsella, Murray. "Murphy Crowe making her mark on the world stage with Ireland 7s". The42. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
- ^ Farrell, Sean. "Prolific Murphy Crowe has eyes fixed on Olympic qualification". The42. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
- ^ Team, The42. "Ireland's Murphy Crowe named in World Rugby Sevens dream team". The42. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe Relishing 15s Opportunity". Munster Rugby. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
- ^ "Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe in line for Ireland debut as Griggs names team to face France". independent. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
- ^ "Ireland beat Italy to secure third place". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
External links
edithttps://www.irishrugby.ie/ireland_women_sevens/amee-leigh-murphy-crowe/