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Beth Mallard
Birth name	Beth Louise Mallard
Date of birth	5 August 1981 (age 43)
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	85 kg (187 lb; 13 st 5 lb)
University	University of Otago
Notable relative(s)	Trevor Mallard (father)
Rugby union career
Position(s)
Position(s)	Prop
Provincial / State sides
Years	Team
1995–1998	Wellington
1999–2002, 2005–2010	Otago
International career
Years	Team
2006–2009	New Zealand
Representing New Zealand
Women's rugby union
Rugby World Cup

Beth Louise Mallard (born 5 August 1981) is a former New Zealand rugby union player. She played for New Zealand and for Otago and Wellington. She was in the squad that won the 2006 Women's Rugby World Cup.^[1]

Career

Mallard began her rugby career at Wellington Girls' College. She is the daughter of former Labour MP Trevor Mallard.^[2]^[3]

Mallard made her provincial debut for Otago in 1999 against Southland in Invercargill. She made her 50th appearance for Otago in 2010.^[2] She made her international debut for the Black Ferns on 4 September 2006 against Samoa at Edmonton.

In 2007, She was named in the Black Ferns squad that played Australia in a two test series.^[4] She featured in the two tests against England in 2009.^[5]^[6]

Mallard graduated with a doctorate in physiology in 2011 from the University of Otago.^[7]^[8]

References

^ "Black Ferns World Cup squad named". NZ Herald. 26 July 2006. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
^ ^a ^b Hepburn, Steve (10 September 2010). "Rugby: 50th game creeps up quietly on long-serving prop". Otago Daily Times Online News. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
^ Boyack, Nicholas (20 November 2022). "Rugby at the heart of home-town farewell to long-time parliamentarian Trevor Mallard". Stuff. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
^ "Black Ferns side named". ESPN.com. 14 October 2007. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
^ "Test debut for Otago's Kelly Brazier". RNZ. 13 November 2009. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
^ Kitson, Robert (20 November 2009). "England women confident of beating New Zealand". the Guardian. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
^ Gibb, John (7 May 2011). "Ex-Black Fern also on the ball academically". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
^ Mallard, Beth (2011). The role of Toll-like receptor 4 in Concanavalin A-induced immune-mediated hepatitis (Doctoral thesis). OUR Archive, University of Otago. hdl:10523/606.