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Women’s Game in Focus: Harlequins and England full-back Ellie Kildunne

A new recruit at Harlequins after leaving Wasps this summer, the England full-back explains her shift in mindset to focus on the World Cup rather than Olympics

Ellie Kildunne was told she couldn’t play in her school’s boys rugby team as they received complaints – because she was ‘running rings’ around everybody else!

Kildunne, 21, who has just signed for Harlequins from Wasps, says: “I was the first girl in the history of my school to play in the boys team in year 7. In year 8 when girls aren’t really allowed to play with boys the rules changed so I played down a year. That year they said ‘look we recognise you from last year and there’s quite a few complaints’ because I was running rings round the boys so the rules ended up changing.
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