Renee Woodman-Wickliffe (née Wickliffe; born 30 May 1987) is a New Zealand rugby union player. She represents and

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. She was in the squad that won the 2010 Rugby World Cup and the

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Biography

Wickliffe was named in the

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squad to the

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. She was included in the Black Ferns squad for the

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in Canada and was named in the squad for the 2017 Rugby World Cup. In 2019 she was part of the winning team of the

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, scoring a

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in the final deciding game against England. Wickliffe was named in the Chiefs squad for the inaugural season of

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in 2022. She was called in as an injury replacement for the Black Ferns squad to the

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. Wickliffe made the Black Ferns 32-player squad for the delayed

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. She scored a brace of tries against a scoreless

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in the Black Ferns final pool game .

Personal life

Wickliffe has been in a long-term relationship with fellow Black Fern and World Cup winner

Portia Woodman Portia Woodman-Wickliffe (née Woodman; born 12 July 1991) is a New Zealand rugby union player. She plays fifteen-a-side and seven-a-side rugby union, and was a member of the New Zealand women's national rugby sevens team and New Zealand women ...

since 2013, and they married in December 2022. They have both adopted the surname ''Woodman-Wickliffe''.

References

External links

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1987 births Living people New Zealand women's international rugby union players New Zealand female rugby union players New Zealand female rugby sevens players New Zealand women's international rugby sevens players Auckland rugby union players Counties Manukau rugby union players New Zealand LGBTQ rugby union players 21st-century New Zealand sportswomen {{NewZealand-rugbyunion-bio-1980s-stub