Stacey Flood
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Stacey Flood (5 August 1996) is an Irish rugby player from Rathmines in Dublin. She plays for the Ireland women's national rugby Sevens team and the Ireland women's national rugby union team. She competed for Ireland at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Club career
Flood played ladies gaelic football for Clanna Gael Fontenoy GAA club and her county Dublin (up to Under-18 level) before she decided to focus fully on rugby. Her first taste of the game came when Railway Union coaches visited her school St Louis Rathmines and she joined the club in 2014.
International career
Flood came to rugby through the Ireland Women's Sevens pathway and first played for the Irish U18 Sevens side in 2014. She was contracted to Ireland's Sevens programme in 2015, aged 18. She made her international senior Sevens debut, in Kazan in 2015 and since then has played at every stage of the World Rugby Sevens Series.{{Cite web|title=Ireland sevens star, Stacey Flood follow sister's footsteps – Planet Sevens|url=https://planet7s.com/2021/04/07/ireland-sevens-star-stacey-flood-follow-sisters-footsteps/|access-date=2021-05-17|language=en-US}}
In the summer of 2017 she did a work placement with Bond University in Australia and played rugby locally.{{Cite web|title=STACEY FLOOD: BOND GIRL - Rugby Players Ireland|url=https://www.rugbyplayersireland.ie/stacey-flood-bond-girl/|access-date=2021-04-22|website=www.rugbyplayersireland.ie|date=28 November 2017 }}
In May 2018 she was selected on the 'Dream Team' at the Canadian leg of the World Rugby Sevens Series.{{Cite web|date=2018-05-14|title=Ireland Women Earn Best Ever Finish As A Core Team|url=https://www.irishrugby.ie/2018/05/14/ireland-women-earn-best-ever-finish-as-a-core-team/|access-date=2021-05-17|website=Irish Rugby|language=en-US}}
She played in the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens in San Francisco and was a key player in Ireland's unsuccessful bid in 2019 to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.{{Cite web|date=2019-07-14|title=Ireland Women's Olympic Dreams Dashed By England Defeat|url=https://www.irishrugby.ie/2019/07/14/ireland-womens-olympic-dreams-dashed-by-england-defeat/|access-date=2021-05-17|website=Irish Rugby|language=en-US}}
Flood was among five of Ireland's Sevens players called in to the national XVs squad in October 2020.{{Cite news|title=Five uncapped Sevens players named in Ireland squad for Women's Six Nations|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/international/five-uncapped-sevens-players-named-in-ireland-squad-for-women-s-six-nations-1.4517942|access-date=2021-05-17|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}} In the 2021 Women's Six Nations she made her Ireland debut, as a replacement, against Wales. She was also a replacement against France and got her first Six Nations start against Italy.{{Cite web|date=2021-04-22|title=Griggs Names Ireland Team To Face Italy In Women's Six Nations|url=https://www.irishrugby.ie/2021/04/22/griggs-names-ireland-team-to-face-italy-in-womens-six-nations-2/|access-date=2021-09-15|website=Irish Rugby|language=en-US}} She is a left-footed place-kicker.
She competed for Ireland at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.{{Cite web |date=2024 |title=Ireland - Rugby Sevens Olympic Games Paris 2024 |url=https://www.world.rugby/tournaments/olympics/paris-2024/participating-nations/ireland |access-date=2024-08-01 |website=www.world.rugby}}{{Cite web |date=2024-06-17 |title=Ireland Sevens Squads Confirmed For 2024 Paris Olympics |url=https://www.irishrugby.ie/2024/06/17/ireland-sevens-squads-confirmed-for-2024-paris-olympics/ |access-date=2024-07-27 |website=Irish Rugby |language=en-US}} She was named in Ireland's fifteens side for the 2025 Six Nations Championship in March.{{Cite web |date=11 February 2025 |title=Bemand Names Ireland Preparation Squad For Guinness Women's Six Nations |url=https://www.irishrugby.ie/2025/02/11/bemand-names-ireland-preparation-squad-for-guinness-womens-six-nations/ |access-date=19 March 2025 |website=Irish Rugby}}{{Cite web |date=12 February 2025 |title=Bemand announces Ireland's squad for Guinness Women's Six Nations |url=https://www.sixnationsrugby.com/en/w6n/news/bemand-announces-irelands-squad-for-guinness-womens-six-nations |access-date=19 March 2025 |website=Six Nations Rugby}}
Personal life
Flood is the youngest of six children (four girls) from a particularly sporty Dublin family.{{Cite news|title=Kim and Stacey Flood chasing place in Olympics scrum|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/kim-and-stacey-flood-chasing-place-in-olympics-scrum-1.2652374|access-date=2021-04-22|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}
She played soccer with Cambridge Girls and gaelic football up to minor (Under-18) level with Dublin contesting an All-Ireland minor final in 2014.{{Cite web|title=From Clanna Gael to an Irish jersey, Stacey continues her sporting journey|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/from-clanna-gael-to-an-irish-jersey-stacey-continues-her-sporting-journey-40862414.html|access-date=2021-09-20|website=independent|date=18 September 2021 |language=en}} All four sisters won a county football title with Clanna Gael Fontenoy GAA club. Her sister Kim (seven years older) has also represented Ireland at Sevens and XVs rugby and played football for Dublin.{{Cite news|last=Cummiskey|first=Gavin|title=Mission accomplished but serious questions remain for Irish women's rugby|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/international/mission-accomplished-but-serious-questions-remain-for-irish-women-s-rugby-1.4547127|access-date=2021-05-17|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}
She has a degree in technology management from the National College of Ireland.
References
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External links
- {{cite web|url=https://www.irishrugby.ie/women/stacey-flood/|title=Irish Rugby | Stacey Flood|website=irishrugby.ie|access-date=2021-09-15}}
{{Ireland women's sevens 2024 Summer Olympics}}
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Category:Irish female rugby union players
Category:Ireland international women's rugby sevens players
Category:People from Rathmines
Category:Rugby union players from Dublin (city)
Category:Alumni of the National College of Ireland
Category:Ireland women's international rugby union players
Category:Rugby union fly-halves
Category:Irish rugby sevens players
Category:Rugby sevens players at the 2024 Summer Olympics