Marlie Packer
Rugby Union
Marlie Packer, England Red Roses and Saracens Women Captain, 2023 Women’s Player of the Year, 4-time 6 Nations Grand slam Champion, 2014 Women’s Rugby World Cup winner.
She began her career as a five-year-old with Ivel Barbarians in Yeovil, where she spent 13 years. Marlie Packer left her West Country roots in 2013 to play for Wasps before returning to Bristol and is now playing at Saracens.
She was England Red Rose #150 and made her 15’s debut in 2008 in a convincing win against Sweden in Amsterdam. By March 2022 she had made 79 England Caps. Marlie was named in the squad for the 2017 Women’s Rugby World Cup in Ireland where England again reached the final and agonisingly finished a runner up at the 2022 Women’s Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.
Packer currently plays for leading Premier 15’s side Saracens Women, where she has won 2 back-to-back titles in 2018 and 2019. Marlie has won multiple honours in her rugby career to date. She was a Women’s RWC Winner in 2014 and has also won four 6 Nations Grand Slam titles with England, the latest in Nov 2020. She enjoyed an outstanding 2021/22 season for club and country winning the Six Nations and Allianz Premier 15s titles as well as the RPA’s England Women player of the year award. She was part of the squad that made the final of the delayed 2021 Rugby World Cup final and captained Simon Middleton’s squad in the 2023 Six Nations. Later that year, Marlie was named as captain of the Red Roses for the inaugural WXV tournament in New Zealand. England won the title and Packer was crowned World Rugby Women’s 15s Player of the Year. She was recently named captain of John Mitchell’s squad for the Guinness Women’s Six Nations 2024.
Multi-talented Packer is also a plumber by profession and has an NVQ3 qualification in the trade, an experienced public speaker and has made numerous media appearances as a TV commentator. In September 2020 Marlie became a working mum with the birth of a baby boy, Oliver as well as being a mum to her two fur babies, dogs Cookie and Rollie.
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