Scotland legend Donna Kennedy is one in every of 5 gamers that will probably be inducted into the World Rugby Corridor of Fame this weekend.
Scotland’s most-capped participant, male or feminine, was a stalwart of the ladies’s nationwide workforce for a lot of the primary twenty years of its existence.
She made her Check debut as a second row in Scotland’s first worldwide in February 1993, serving to the facet to a 10-0 victory in opposition to Eire.
Kennedy performed in her first Ladies’s Rugby World Cup a 12 months later and featured in 4 extra editions of the worldwide event.
In 2004 she moved out of the again row – the place she had turn out to be a keystone of the Scotland pack – to win 4 caps on the wing.
That very same 12 months she overtook England’s Gill Burns to turned the world’s most-capped girls’s participant when she performed her 74th Check and stretched her tally to 115 by the point she retired. England’s Rocky Clark surpassed her complete in 2016.
Her cap file and positional versatility led to her being named World Rugby’s Worldwide Ladies’s Character of the Yr in 2004.
“It is just like the damehood of rugby is not it? Getting that e mail by to inform me the information, it was similar to ‘wow!'” stated Kennedy, who performed in 95 of Scotland’s first 100 Checks.
“It feels so surreal nevertheless it’s such an honour. I really feel like this recognition is not nearly me, and I actually imply that.
“It is recognition of the journey I have been on with Scotland Ladies. I maintain it up for everybody – gamers and coaches – it isn’t only for me.”
The Biggar native was a coach with the Scottish Rugby Union and likewise took cost of English membership Worcester after ending her taking part in profession.
Kennedy, Emilee Cherry of Australia, New Zealanders DJ Forbes and Chris Laidlaw plus Sergio Parisse of Italy will enter the Corridor of Fame on Sunday.
The World Rugby Corridor of Fame recognises those that have made an impressive contribution to the sport whereas additionally demonstrating rugby’s character-building values of integrity, ardour, solidarity, self-discipline and respect.
