Alicia Maude
{{Short description|England international rugby union player}}
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Alicia Maude (born 17 May 2002) is an English rugby union player who plays as a scrum-half for Loughborough Lightning and the Great Britain women's national rugby sevens team, having also played for England sevens and Gloucester-Hartpury.
Early life
Born in Kingston-on-Thames, she was brought up in the New Forest. Maude started playing rugby union at the age of five years-old in Hampshire. She attended Hartpury College in Gloucestershire.
Club career
She is a scrum half, and played for Ellingham and Ringwood RFC in her home county of Hampshire, the same club as England internationals Poppy Cleall and Bryony Cleall, prior to being signed to Premier 15s club Gloucester-Hartpury.{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/team-england-athletes/alicia-maude|title=Alicia Maude|website=Teamengland.org|access-date=29 July 2022}}{{cite web|url= https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/sport/ellingham-ringwood-star-alicia-maude-signs-for-loughboroug-9373869/ |title= Ellingham & Ringwood star Alicia Maude signs for Loughborough Lightning|first=James|last=Henley |website=Advertiser and Times|date=15 July 2024|accessdate=16 April 2025}} She signed for fellow top division club Loughborough Lightning in July 2024.{{cite web|url= https://www.northamptonsaints.co.uk/womens-rugby/news/alicia-maude-loughborough-lightning|website=Northamptonsaints|accessdate=16 April 2025|title= Alicia Maude signs for Loughborough Lightning|date=13 June 2024}} She made her debut for Loughborough against Sale Sharks in the PWR Up Series.{{cite web|url= https://www.zeeon.co.uk/article/feature-interview-alicia-maude|website=Zeeon.co.uk|accessdate=16 April 2025|title= FEATURE INTERVIEW: ALICIA MAUDE}}
International career
She played youth representative rugby union for England at under-18 and under-20 levels. Maude awarded a central contract with the senior England women's national rugby sevens team in December 2021.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/59641482|website=BBC Sport|accessdate=16 April 2025|title= England sevens contracts return for men and women after summer cuts|date=
13 December 2021}} She was included in the England squad for the HSBC World Sevens Series tournament in Canada in April 2022.{{cite web|url=https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/sport/amp/former-ellingham-ringwood-player-alicia-called-up-for-engl-9251559/|title=Former Ellingham & Ringwood player Alicia Maude called up for England sevens|website=Advertiserandtimes.co.uk|access-date=29 July 2022}}
Maude was selected to play for England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham for the rugby sevens competition.{{Cite web|url=https://www.englandrugby.com/b60e6e31-e1cd-4d88-a268-4b6e76fb6593/news/article/team-england-sevens-squads-announced-for-commonwealth-games|title=RFU|website=Englandrugby.com|access-date=29 July 2022|archive-date=20 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230720165638/https://www.englandrugby.com/b60e6e31-e1cd-4d88-a268-4b6e76fb6593/news/article/team-england-sevens-squads-announced-for-commonwealth-games|url-status=dead}} She was subsequently also named in the England squad for the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens – Women's tournament held in Cape Town, South Africa in September 2022.{{Cite web|url=https://www.englandrugby.com/news/article/england-squads-for-rugby-world-cup-sevens-named|title=ENGLAND SQUADS FOR RUGBY WORLD CUP SEVENS NAMED|website=Englandrugby.com|access-date=12 September 2022|archive-date=26 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220926010916/https://www.englandrugby.com/news/article/england-squads-for-rugby-world-cup-sevens-named|url-status=dead}}
She was selected for the Great Britain national rugby sevens team for the 2024-25 SVNS series which began at the Dubai Sevens on 30 November 2024.{{cite web|url= https://gbrugbysevens.com/gb7s-2024-25-squad-announcement/|website=gbrugbysevens.com|accessdate=15 April 2025|title=GB 7s 2024-25 squad announcement}}
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Category:England women's international rugby union players
Category:English female rugby union players
Category:Gloucester-Hartpury Women players
Category:England international women's rugby sevens players
Category:People from Kingston upon Thames
Category:Rugby union players from the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames
Category:Rugby union scrum-halves
Category:Commonwealth Games rugby sevens players for England
Category:Rugby sevens players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Category:Great Britain women's international rugby sevens players