Victoria Louise "Vicky" Chapman (

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Fleetwood; born 13 April 1990) is a rugby union player and personal trainer. She represented at the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup and the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup.

International career

Fleetwood made her England debut in 2011. She made six appearances in the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup, which England won. In 2017 she made three appearances for England at the

Women's Rugby World Cup The Women's Rugby World Cup is the women's rugby union world championship which is organised by World Rugby. The first Rugby World Cup for women was held in 1991, but it was not until the 1998 tournament that the tournament received official b ...

, including in the final which England lost to New Zealand. After the 2017 World Cup, she switched to England 7s, competing for England in the

2018 Commonwealth Games The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and also known as Gold Coast 2018, were an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that was held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, bet ...

; the team took the bronze medal. Fleetwood returned to 15s in 2019 as England won the 2019 Women's Six Nations. She was injured out of the 2019 Women's Rugby Super Series, but was named Player of the Match in the Quilter International match versus Italy later that year. Fleeetwood was again part of the England team as they won the 2020 Women's Six Nations.

Club career

Aged 14, Fleetwood began playing for Leicester Forest. She joined Lichfield aged 17 as part of the Under 18s squad, and later graduated to the seniors team. She continued to play for Lichfield while attending university with teammate

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. She joined Saracens Women in 2014, then rejoined the team in 2020.

Early life

Born in Nuneaton in 1990, Fleetwood has a twin brother named Andrew. She was a junior hurdler and sprinter before switching to rugby. Fleetwood attended John Cleveland College and then

Leeds Metropolitan University Leeds Beckett University (LBU), formerly known as Leeds Metropolitan University (LMU) and before that as Leeds Polytechnic, is a public university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It has campuses in the city centre and Headingley. The univer ...

. Alongside rugby, Fleetwood is a successful personal trainer. In 2017 she appeared on the cover of Stylist magazine as part of a feature on the England Women's Rugby team.

References

External links

RFU player profile
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