Maria Samson (born February 2, 1983) is a Canadian rugby union player.

International play

Samson represented at the

2014 Women's Rugby World Cup The 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup was the seventh edition of the Women's Rugby World Cup, and the sixth held in Europe. The World Cup Final took place on 17 August. All of the pool games for the World Cup took place at the Centre National du R ...

. She made her debut at the

2011 Nations Cup The 2011 Nations Cup (also known as the Carling Nations Cup after its headline sponsor) was a round-robin football tournament between the Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales national teams. The first set of two games were ...

against with a 52–17 victory. In 2012, she was named as the Top Female Rugby Player in Canada. In 2013, Samson was the recipient of the

Colette McAuley Colette McAuley (born May 11, 1973) is a former Canadian rugby union player with 21 caps, including the 2002 Women's Rugby World Cup, during a ten-year career with Rugby Canada. Rugby career At the University of Guelph, McAuley played fullb ...

award.

Personal

In 2015, she was honoured as one of Avenue Magazine's Top 40 Under 40 for her work in sport advocacy and community leadership. In 2016, she appeared on Season 3 of CBC's "

Canada's Smartest Person ''Canada's Smartest Person'' is a Canadian reality television competition series. Contestants compete in a series of different challenges based on American psychologist Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences to earn the title of "Canada ...

". She won her episode (Episode 3) and finished 3rd in the Finale. Samson attended McGill University, where she attained a Bachelor of Engineering

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in mining with a

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in management. Samson also has her Masters of Business Administration from

Queen's University Queen's or Queens University may refer to: *Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada *Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK **Queen's University of Belfast (UK Parliament constituency) (1918–1950) **Queen's University of Belfast ...

, funded through the Canadian Olympic Committee via a Game Plan Scholarship.

References

External links

Rugby Canada Player Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Samson, Maria 1983 births Living people Sportspeople from Montreal Rugby union players from Quebec Canadian female rugby union players Canada women's international rugby union players