Clare Daniels

Clare Daniels (born 1974 (age 49–50)) is an English international rugby union referee and is the world's most capped female Test referee.

She has played scrum-half for Tor RFC in Glastonbury for a few years in the late 1990s before the team disbanded and Daniels decided to take part in a training course run by the Somerset Rugby Referees' Society.^[1]

Her international debut was on 2 July 2005, when she refereed the Canada Cup match between Canada and Scotland.^[2] Since then she has been selected to officiate at Women's Rugby World Cup in 2006 and 2010, 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens, Women's Six Nations in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and other tournaments, including some men's matches in National League 2 North and National League 2 South.^[3][4]

After working as a Bath Chronicle sports writer for seven years, Daniels took up a full-time role with the RFU refereeing team as the new Southern Region Referee Development Manager on 2 August 2010.^[5]

Notes

1. Polly March (19 December 2008). "Clare's off to referee in the World Cup". Bristol Evening Post. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
2. "Sports editor Clare's Canada Cup conquest". 27 July 2005. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
3. "Refs View". 2 October 2009. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
4. "Female match officials set to make history at Women's Rugby World Cup 2010". 17 December 2009. Archived from the original on 26 September 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
5. "Clare Daniels is new RFU Southern Region Referee Development Manager". 26 July 2010. Archived from the original on 29 March 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2010.