Katherine Zackary (born July 26, 1989) is an American rugby sevens player. She debuted for the

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in 2016 and for the sevens team in 2010. She won a silver medal at the

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as a member of the

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. Zackary attended Salina South High School and

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where she initially played soccer. She attended college on a soccer scholarship and it was there that she saw rugby. She played rugby for the Benedictine Saints. In 2014 she quit her job working in a gym to train full-time with the women's Eagles sevens team. Zackary currently plays for the

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's team. Exeter compete in the Allianz Premier 15s, the top tier of women's professional rugby in

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. In 2022, she was named in the Eagles squad for the Pacific Four Series in

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. She was named in the Eagles fifteens squad to the

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Zackary, Kate 1989 births Living people United States international rugby sevens players American female rugby sevens players Female rugby sevens players Rugby sevens players at the 2015 Pan American Games Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States Pan American Games medalists in rugby sevens Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games