Karen Paquin

Karen Paquin
Date of birth (1987-08-03) August 3, 1987
Place of birth Quebec City, Quebec
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 68 kg (150 lb)
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position Loose Forward
Professional / senior clubs
Years Club / team Caps (points)
Club de Rugby de Québec
National team(s)
Years Club / team Caps (points)
Canada
Sevens national teams
Years Club / team Comps
2012– Canada
Medal record
Women's rugby union
World Cup
2014 France
Women's rugby sevens
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
Pan American Games
2015 Toronto Team

Karen Paquin (born August 3, 1987) is a Canadian rugby union player.[1]

International play

She represented Canada at the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup.[2][3] She was a member of Canada's women's sevens team that were runners-up at the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Russia.[4]

She won a gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games as a member of the Canadian women's rugby sevens team.[1][5][6]

In 2016, Paquin was named to Canada's first ever women's rugby sevens Olympic team.[7]

Personal

She studied chemical engineering at Université Laval.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Karen Paquin". Olympic.ca. Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved July 16, 2016.
  2. Ben Kerr (June 30, 2014). "Canada's Roster Announced for Women's Rugby World Cup". lastwordonsports.com. Retrieved October 2, 2014.
  3. Bryan Kelly (July 31, 2014). "Canada roster announced for Women's World Cup opener vs France". Rugby Canada Communications (BC Rugby.com). Retrieved October 2, 2014.
  4. "Squad Lists With RWC Totals" (PDF). rwcsevens.com. 2013. Retrieved November 4, 2014.
  5. "Canada's rugby sevens teams take gold". The Canadian Press. July 12, 2015. Archived from the original on July 14, 2015. Retrieved July 13, 2015.
  6. "Karen Paquin". Toronto2015.org. 2015 Pan American Games. Retrieved July 16, 2016.
  7. MacDonnell, Beth (July 8, 2016). "Historic first Canadian women selected for Olympic rugby at Rio 2016". Olympic.ca. Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  8. "Les étoiles du rugby universitaire féminin dévoilées". RSEQ. October 28, 2011. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
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