Stevi Schnoor (born September 14, 1985) is a Canadian
American football
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and
rugby football
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Rugby football started at Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, where the rules were first codified in 1845. Forms of football in which the ball ...
player who represented
Canada
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at the
2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup
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.
Playing career
From British Columbia, Schnoor attended
Simon Fraser University
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and is a teacher.
Schnoor played inside centre in
rugby union
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at high school and was selected for the
national team
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The term is most commonly associated with team sports, for exa ...
for the
2009 Nations Cup. She played in three test matches and also played
rugby sevens
Rugby sevens (commonly known simply as sevens, and originally seven-a-side rugby) is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players playing seven-minute halves, instead of the usual 15 players playing 40-minute halves. R ...
at tournaments in Calgary, Cuba and Las Vegas.
She then played for the
BC Angels
The BC Angels were a women's American football, women's football team in the Lingerie Football League (LFL) and played in the 2012 LFL Canada season. Based in Abbotsford, British Columbia, (70 kilometres away from Vancouver) the Angels played th ...
and the
Seattle Mist
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(and in one season
Nashville Knights
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) in the
Legends Football League
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as a running back and a linebacker.
Schnoor later switched to
rugby league
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and represented the
Canada Ravens at the
2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup
The 2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup was the fifth staging of the Women's Rugby League World Cup and was held in Australia between 16 November and 2 December 2017. Pool and semi-final matches was held at Southern Cross Group Stadium in Sydn ...
.
References
1985 births
Living people
21st-century Canadian sportswomen
Canada international rugby sevens players
Canada women's international rugby union players
Canada women's national rugby league team players
Canadian female rugby league players
Canadian female rugby union players
Canadian players of American football
Female rugby sevens players
Legends Football League players
Rugby union players from British Columbia
Simon Fraser University alumni
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