Ladies and gentlemen, may we proudly introduce the KCL Women’s Rugby squad ready to defend the title against UCL this Friday.
March 16th at Allianz Park. KO: 5pm.
It’s time for you to meet our lionesses:
 
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- Lucia Blackmore
Position: Prop
Nickname: Chicken Dipper Lover
Years played: 2
Sports night factor: 100/10, future social sec?
Banter: 7/10, just an everyday clown.
Flirt: 9/10, creds to the hairstyle (even pulls on the pitch).
Season highlight: scoring a belter of a prop try against GKT.
Readiness for Varsity: 200%, spends more time at the gym than home. Gym is home.
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2. Angharad Jones
Position: Hooker
Nickname: Harry
Years played: 2
Sports night factor: 2/10, did come to the welcome event.
Banter: 4/10, talks about dissections on the train to Berrylands while the team is having lunch.
Intelligence: 10/10, First class honours MSc BUCS Rugby rules.
Season highlight: Not chatting with the ref.
Readiness for Varsity: 7/10 – depends if she wears her scrum cap or not.
 3. Kasey Kelly
Position: Prop
Nickname: KK
Years played: 1
Sports night factor: 9/10, committed to the fancy dress spirit, fresher of the year since welcome drinks.
Intelligence: always asks brilliant questions about rugby.
Flirt: 10/10, Kasey’s crush watched her play rugby, now he’s her bf.
Season highlight: sending a girl to hospital.
Readiness for Varsity: 8.76/10, will depend on the brows.
4. Afaf Sifeddine
Position: Second Row
Nickname: Afalafel, Insta Queen, Braziouu
Years played: 2
Sports night factor: Walkabout (11/10) P.I (twice then never again/10)
Banter: 400/10, Entertains CROWDS on the @kclwrfc and @petiteafouf insta all year.
Flirt: 5/10, does not know the difference between friendly and flirty (braziou problems?)
Season highlight: all the handoffs and side steps throughout.
Readiness for Varsity: 10/10, don’t get fooled by this beautiful face.
5. Cecile Bigot
Position: Second Row
Nickname: Noodle, Cecil
Years played: 2
Sports night factor: 5/10 → 10/10 for the first term, 0/10 for the second one.
Banter: 7/10, makes us laugh, funny.
Flirt: Ask Sophie’s sis.
Season highlight: Being featured on the King’s Sport instagram.
Readiness for Varsity: 10/10 #noodlearmspowah
6. Laura Murphy
Position: Flanker
Nickname: Champ, the American, vegan #1
Years played: 3
Sports night factor: 9/10, fastest at downing pints.
Banter: 10/10, breaks collarbone, laughs it away.
Flirt: 8/10, gets everyone to buy her drinks.
Season highlight: Every tackle she makes, she is (literally) made of steel.
Readiness for Varsity: 20/10, ready since March last year (missed Varsity because she was at Coachella).
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7.Paz Bombo
Position: Flanker
Nickname: Pazzy, Cap
Years played: 89
Sports night factor: 1/10, missed too many socials for lib sesh (so we were told).
Banter: 10/10, her contagious laugh makes our day.
Flirt: 9.99/10, joined the Pole society at freshers fair.
Season highlight: Loses boot, scores anyway. U mirin?
Readiness for Varsity: 50/10, been at KCLWRFC since 1987, watch out.
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8. Sophie Tulloch
Position: No.8
Nickname: Soso, Soph
Years played: 1
Sports night factor: 9/10, learned to drink with the navy.
Banter: 7/10, loves the laughs but is too nice to be savage.
Flirt: 9/10, mastered the French kiss.
Season highlight: When she smashed it as 12 against UCL although she had never played in the backs.
Readiness for Varsity: 10/10, is there a single game Sophie is not ready for?
9.Emma Kinnaird
Position: Scrum-half
Nickname: kinny, braveheart, KCL’s Laidlaw
Years played: 2
Sports night factor: 1/10, never comes to PI.
Banter: 10/10 when Scotland wins, 0/10 when Scotland loses.
Flirt: 5/10, in a serious relationship, will be the first rugby wedding on the team (we love you Phil!)
Season highlight: When she played #14 and #10.
Readiness for Varsity: 10/10, knows our calls in sign language, she’s so prepared.
10. Lottie Kissick-Jones
Position: Fly-half
Nickname: Lottie
Years played: 18 out of 18.
Sports night factor: 7/10, life of the party if she’s not working at Waterfront.
Banter: 6/10, surprising revelations during “Never have I everâ€.
Flirt: 9/10, see picture above #smize
Season highlight: All the hand-offs.
Readiness for Varsity: 10/10, at uni mainly for rugby.
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 11. Louise Pech
Position: Left wing/Full-back
Nickname: Pech, the Wall, Blanco
Years played: 3
Sports night factor: 3/10, died at welcome event although not a fresher. Loves sweeping the kitchen floor after a few drinks.
Banter: 4/10, loves playing “what do you meme†way too much.
Flirt: 9.1/10, got a thing for sailors, knows everything about the navy.
Season highlight: Anytime she can play / is not injured.
Readiness for Varsity: 10/10, been waiting for this moment for 3 years.
12. Reagan Pearce
Position: Inside center
Nickname: Reags, Reagy-P, Wonder twin no. 1
Years played: 2
Sports night factor: Current social sec, need we say more?
Banter: 6/10, getting better when Cece is not around.
Flirt: 0/10, in a committed relationship with a Finnish gal.
Season highlight: Kicking amazing conversions.
Readiness for Varsity: 20/10, (her Finnish gal will be watching).
13. Marie-Lys Castello Larroque
Position: Outside center
Nickname: Prez, Pattypan
Years played: 3
Sports night factor: 0.2/10, endless concussion didn’t help.
Banter: 5/10, most of the time too sarcastic (and french) for people to understand.
Flirt: 9.9875/10, good year for the prez.
Season highlight: side steppin’ every single person in front of her #eldiablo.
Readiness for Varsity: 100/10, planning and dreaming about Varsity since June.
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14. Molly Mintz
Position: Right wing
Years played: 1
Sports night factor: 8/10 first semester, 2/10 second semester: chose ski soc over us.
Banter: 6/10, too serious, always waiting on a phone call for an internship.
Flirt: 14/10, look at those eyes.
Season highlight: “everyone’s scored a try it’s my turn†then proceeds to run the entire pitch scoring a belter against GKT.
Readiness for Varsity: 9/10 if she’s in the country
15. Helen Atkinson
Position: Full-back
Nickname: “Health and Safety Officerâ€, wonder twin n°2
Years played: feels like 100 but it’s only been 2
Sports night factor: 100/10, Queen of the Dover Castle Challenge 2018.
Banter: 3/10, Welsh jokes are a bit difficult to understand.
Flirt: Ask Aidan (full-back for England’s Rugby team and KCLWRFC’S Biggest Fan)
Season highlight: Babysitting while playing rugby against LSE #goals
Readiness for Varsity: 100/10, Whocl, you are deffo not ready for this one.
16. Tash Sice
Position: Prop
Nickname: Cambridge, the Frenchy-wannabe
Years played: 2
Sports night factor: 5/10, but if she comes out she’s the last one standing.
Banter: 6.8/10, depends if she has eaten before.
Flirt: 5/10, she prefers fine foods.
Season highlight: having an amazing comeback in second semester after a long injury.
Readiness for Varsity: 100/10, already warming up her voice to yell at the opposition when we are defending.
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17. Rosie Barnes
Position: Second/Back Row
Years played: 2
Sports night factor: 3/10, always leaves before PI.
Banter: 6/10, too focused on the game.
Flirt: 0/10, in a committed relationship.
Season highlight: Tackled England’s Rugby numbah 10 at our Inner Warrior Camp.
Readiness for Varsity: 10/10, rumors say that she is featured in one of the famous “best rugby tackles ever†youtube video.
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18. Keira Sesay
Position: Second row
Years played: 1
Sports night factor: 4/10, threw up everywhere during a football vs rugby boat race.
Banter: 6/10, gives the attitude.
Flirt: 9.9999/10, brought her boyfriend to Chichester to watch us play.
Season highlight: big big big tackles.
Readiness for Varsity: 10/10, you don’t want to be tackled by her.
19. Zoonii Kayler
Position: Flanker
Nickname: Pole queen, vegan #2
Years played: 1
Sports night factor: 2/10, some progress to be made.
Banter: 1/10, was impressed by Paz’s jokes.
Flirt: 100/10, pulled the cap on one of the first PI nights.
Season highlight: Doing pole moves everywhere: on the train, on the pitch, on the team pics, just everywhere.
Readiness for Varsity: will depend on how the pole Varsity went.
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21. Louise Martin
Position: Wing
Nickname: Loulou, Bunny, Lapinou
Years played: 1
Sports night factor: 7/10, loves the costumes (#rudolph #irishpumfuckinshit)
Banter: 7/10, photoshops Blanco (holding hands with her) everywhere.
Flirt: 8/10, loves the blonds (beware Lottie).
Season highlight: Scores try even when she starts running in the wrong direction.
Readiness for Varsity: 14/10, she’s the lady Teddy Thomas #frenchflair
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22. Anya Meidell
Position: Wing
Nickname: @nyouts (if you follow her she will like 17 of your insta posts).
Years played: 1
Sports night factor: 0/10 Peed in a pint cup on the PI party bus. No sign of life since.
Banter: 4/10 “I don’t think she’s funny†Raph (see no.20).
Season highlight: Taking down girls that are 3x her size.
Readiness for Varsity: 10/10, will join Tash in warming up her voice to yell at Whocl.
Photography by Ece Çakıroğlu, Instagram: @ece_cakiroglu
