LOUGHBOROUGH LIGHTNING AND SCOTLAND FLY-HALF
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HELEN NELSON

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Loughborough Lightning and Scotland star Helen Nelson had to stop playing rugby at the age of 12 as there weren’t enough girls to make up a team in her local area of Glen Coe.
The fly-half and centre took up the sport again six years later in her first year at Edinburgh University and hasn’t looked back since.
Nelson, 27, says: “To be honest getting back into rugby wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. I tried out for the uni football team and got...