Tess Feury
{{short description|American rugby union player|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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|years1=2023–2025
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| clubs2 =New York Exiles
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Tess Feury (born March 15, 1996){{Cite web |last=Finlan |first=Jackie |date=2014-08-13 |title=Inside Look at Girls Olympic Squad |url=https://www.goffrugbyreport.com/hs-girls/inside-look-girls-olympic-squad |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=Goff Rugby Report |language=en}} is an American rugby union player. She competed for the United States at the 2017 and 2021 Rugby World Cups. She has played for the Leicester Tigers in the Premiership Women's Rugby competition, and will play for the New York Exiles in the inaugural season of the Women's Elite Rugby competition.
Early life and family
Feury was raised in Denville, New Jersey by Tom and KJ Feury.{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Maya |title=USA rugby player on the front lines of a pandemic |url=https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/29152006/usa-rugby-player-front-lines-pandemic |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=ESPN |language=en-US}} She grew up playing rugby; her father, Tom, was introduced to the sport in college. He started an flag rugby team, the Denville Dawgs, to allow his sons and daughter to play rugby.{{Cite news |last=Jackson-Gibson |first=Adele |date=2016-06-10 |title=How rugby prodigy Tess Feury found the game so young |url=http://www.excellesports.com/news/rugby-prodigy-tess-feury-found-game-young/ |access-date=2017-09-19 |work=Excelle Sports |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Lefton |first=Clara |date=22 April 2015 |title=Tess Feury: Rugby Brings One Family Together |url=https://www.usasevenscrc.com/tessfeury/ |access-date=2017-09-19 |website=www.usasevenscrc.com |language=en-US}} She has two brothers who played rugby at Pennsylvania State University and Middlebury College, and her mother also served as the president of Rugby New Jersey for several years.{{Cite web |last=Havsy |first=Jane |title=Healthcare work, rugby keeps Feury family together, even through coronavirus pandemic |url=https://www.dailyrecord.com/story/news/local/how-we-live/2020/03/28/coronavirus-nj-morris-county-rugby-morristown-medical-center-covid-19/5079507002/ |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=Daily Record |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Havsy |first=Jane |title='20 Questions' with USA Rugby fullback Tess Feury of Denville |url=https://www.dailyrecord.com/story/sports/college/2018/06/03/tess-feury-denville-villa-walsh-penn-state-usa-rugby/662446002/ |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=Daily Record |language=en-US}} Feury attended Villa Walsh Academy, where she played varsity soccer and ran track and field, and graduated in 2014.
Feury attended The Pennsylvania State University. In 2018, Feury graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a bachelor's in nursing.{{Cite news|url=http://news.psu.edu/story/479187/2017/08/24/academics/nursing-student-balances-academics-rugby-compete-2017-world-cup|title=Nursing student balances academics with rugby to compete in 2017 World Cup|date=24 August 2017|work=Penn State University|access-date=2017-09-19}} Feury has worked as a Pediatric Intensive Care Nurse at Morristown Medical Center.
Rugby career
= Youth and collegiate =
While in high school, Feury played rugby sevens for the New Jersey Blaze, which won the high school girls championship in 2013, for the Atlantis rugby team, and for the Morris Rugby girl's high school team.{{Cite web |date=2015-01-07 |title=2014 Girls High School Player of the Year |url=https://www.goffrugbyreport.com/2014-girls-high-school-player-year |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=Goff Rugby Report |language=en}}
She was selected for the USA Rugby High School All-American team in sevens and fifteens rugby in 2013, 2014, and 2015, and trained with the United States national women's sevens team in Chula Vista, California.{{Cite web |last=Goff |first=Alex |date=2014-07-31 |title=Aircraft Carter Solutions Player of the Week - Tess Feury |url=https://www.goffrugbyreport.com/hs-girls/aircraft-carter-solutions-pow-tess-feury |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=Goff Rugby Report |language=en}}
Feury captained and played scrum-half for the 4th-place finishing United States Girls team at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China.{{Cite news |last=Havsy |first=Jane |date=15 August 2014 |title=Morris Rugby duo to represent U.S. at Youth Olympics |language=en |work=Daily Record |url=http://www.dailyrecord.com/story/sports/2014/08/15/morris-rugby-duo-represent-us-youth-olympics/14133205/ |access-date=2017-09-19}} She was named the High School Rugby Player of the Year in 2014.
From 2014 to 2018, Feury played fullback and outside center for the Pennsylvania State University women's rugby team.{{Cite web |title=Nursing student balances academics with rugby to compete in 2017 World Cup {{!}} Penn State University |url=https://www.psu.edu/news/academics/story/nursing-student-balances-academics-rugby-compete-2017-world-cup |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=Penn State University News}} The team won three national championships during that time, and Feury was a four-time Collegiate All-American.{{Cite web |last=Sears |first=Steve |date=November 15, 2020 |title=NJ Starz: Tess Feury |url=https://www.mtolivelife.com/2020/11/15/384682/nj-starz-tess-feury |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=Mount Olive Life |language=en}} She was named the Big 10 Rugby Freshman of the Year in 2015, as well as the Most Valuable Player of the championship game in 2015.{{Cite web |title=Tess Feury {{!}} Player Profile |url=https://eagles.rugby/players/tess-feury/1186 |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=USA Eagles |language=en}}
= U.S. National Team =
She made her debut for the United States in 2016 against England at the Women's Super Series in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was selected for the Eagles 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup squad.{{Cite web |date=25 July 2017 |title=Opening Kick |url=http://www.thisisamericanrugby.com/2017/07/opening-kick_25.html |access-date=2017-09-19 |website=www.thisisamericanrugby.com}}{{Cite news |last=Wise |first=Chad |date=17 July 2017 |title=Eagles announced for Women's Rugby World Cup 2017 in Ireland |work=USA Rugby |url=https://www.usarugby.org/2017/07/eagles-announced-for-womens-rugby-world-cup-2017-in-ireland/ |access-date=2017-09-19}} From 2016 to 2018, she was named to the USA Rugby Club Sevens National Championships All-Tournament Team.
In 2022, she was named in the Eagles squad for the Pacific Four Series in New Zealand.{{Cite web |date=2022-05-10 |title=Eagles name Pacific Four traveling squad |url=https://www.americasrugbynews.com/2022/05/09/eagles-name-pacific-four-traveling-squad/ |access-date=2022-06-20 |website=Americas Rugby News |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Cahill |first=Calder |date=2022-05-09 |title=USA Women's Eagles traveling roster named for Pacific Four Series 2022 |url=https://www.usa.rugby/2022/05/usa-womens-eagles-traveling-roster-named-for-pacific-four-series-2022/ |access-date=2022-06-20 |website=USA Rugby}} She was selected in the Eagles squad for the 2021 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.{{Cite web |last=Cahill |first=Calder |date=2022-09-14 |title=USA Women's Eagles Rugby World Cup roster named as the official countdown to New Zealand begins |url=https://eagles.rugby/news/usa-womens-eagles-rugby-world-cup-roster-named-as-the-official-countdown-to-new-zealand-begins-2022914 |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=eagles.rugby |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2022-09-16 |title=Kate Zackary leads Eagles squad to Rugby World Cup |url=https://www.americasrugbynews.com/2022/09/15/kate-zackary-leads-eagles-squad-for-rugby-world-cup/ |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=Americas Rugby News |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Mockford |first=Sarah |date=2022-10-09 |title=USA Women's Rugby World Cup Squad 2022 – USA 10-22 Italy |url=https://www.rugbyworld.com/tournaments/rugby-world-cup/usa-womens-rugby-world-cup-squad-2022-145640 |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=Rugby World |language=en-US}}
Feury was named in the Eagles traveling squad for the 2023 Pacific Four Series.{{Cite web |date=2023-03-01 |title=Eagles name traveling squad for Spain series |url=https://www.americasrugbynews.com/2023/03/01/eagles-name-traveling-squad-for-spain-series/ |access-date=2023-03-26 |website=Americas Rugby News |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Dean |first=Taylor |date=2023-02-28 |title=World Rugby Pacific Four Series returns for 2023 with USA Women's Eagles Traveling Roster and Schedule Confirmed |url=https://eagles.rugby/news/world-rugby-pacific-four-series-returns-for-2023-with-usa-womens-eagles-traveling-roster-and-schedule-confirmed-2023228 |access-date=2023-03-26 |website=eagles.rugby |language=en}}
= Professional leagues =
She signed with the Leicester Tigers for the 2023–24 Premiership Women's Rugby season.{{Cite web |last=Buckley |first=Stanley |date=2023-06-27 |title=Three new Future Leicester Residents |url=https://www.leicestertigers.com/news/three-new-future-leicester-residents |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=Leicester Tigers |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Aloia |first=Andrew |date=2024-02-06 |title=Leicester Tigers: Tess Feury on juggling a rugby career with nursing |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/67650337 |access-date=2024-04-27 |work=BBC Sport |language=en-GB}} Feury will play with the New York Exiles in the 2025 Women's Elite Rugby season.{{Cite web |last= |date=2025-02-19 |title=175 Players Sign WER Pro Contracts |url=https://therugbybreakdown.com/175-players-sign-wer-pro-contracts/ |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=The Rugby Breakdown |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Lane |first=Ro |date=2025-02-18 |title=New York Exiles Announce 2025 Athlete Roster |url=https://www.womenseliterugby.us/press/ny-exiles-announce-2025-athlete-roster |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=Women's Elite Rugby |language=en-US}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.usarugby.org/player/tess-feury/ Eagles Profile]
{{United States 2021 Women's Rugby World Cup squad}}
{{United States 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup squad}}
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Category:United States women's international rugby union players
Category:American female rugby union players
Category:Rugby sevens players at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
Category:21st-century American sportswomen
Category:Rugby union fullbacks
Category:Penn State Nittany Lions athletes
Category:American women nurses
Category:Sportspeople from Denville Township, New Jersey
Category:Darlington Mowden Park Sharks players
Category:American expatriate rugby union players in England