Larissa Muldoon
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| Born | 11 March 1991 County Donegal, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Larissa Muldoon (born 11 March 1991), from Ballybofey, County Donegal, is a rugby union player for Railway Union, Ulster rugby and the Irish Rugby Football Union.
Her first sport was ladies gaelic football which she played for Donegal at Under-14 and Under-16 level.
She made her debut for the Ireland women's rugby union team at the age of 19, just two years after taking up the sport.[1]
She played for Ulster's U18s and seniors first and her selection for Ireland was prompted by the Cardiff Metropolitan University who sent a video of her in action to the Irish Rugby Football Union.[2]
Muldoon was a member of the Ireland team that won its first ever Six Nations and Grand Slam in 2013 and also a member when they won the 2015 Women's Six Nations.[3][4]
She also represented Ireland at the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup held in France where they had a historic victory over New Zealand's Black Ferns and finished fourth.[5][6]
She played for Ireland at the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup.[7]
In 2021 she was selected at scrum-half in the Irish women's Team of the Decade by the Front Row Union website.[1] She has amassed 48 caps for the Ireland women's rugby union team but was unavailable for selection in 2021 due to injury.
Muldoon obtained a Masters in Sports Management and Leadership from Cardiff Metropolitan University. She is a qualified teacher and coach. She worked as a Gaelic Games Development Officer for Dublin GAA in 2017 but, since late 2018, has worked fulltime as a Development Officer for Leinster Rugby, specialising in promoting the game for girls and women.[8]
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External links
[edit | edit source]- 1991 births
- Living people
- Irish female rugby union players
- Ireland women's international rugby union players
- Irish expatriate rugby league players in England
- Irish schoolteachers
- Rugby union players from County Donegal
- Ireland international women's rugby sevens players
- Irish rugby sevens players
- Irish Exiles women's rugby union players
- Railway Union rugby union players
- Irish expatriate rugby union players in England
- Expatriate rugby league players in England
- People from Ballybofey
- Alumni of Cardiff Metropolitan University
- Rugby union scrum-halves
- Bristol Bears Women players
- 21st-century Irish sportswomen