Jillion Potter Explained

Birth Name:Jillion Paige Potter
Birth Date:5 June 1986
Birth Place:Austin, Texas, U.S.
Education:La Cueva High School
Alma Mater:University of New Mexico
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Height:5 ft 10 in
Weight:174 lb
Ru Position:Flanker, Prop (7s)
Ru Sevensnationalyears1:2007–present
Ru Sevensnationalcomp1:22 (285; 57t)

Jillion Paige Potter (born July 5, 1986) is an American rugby union player. She was the captain of the 2016 USA Olympic women's rugby sevens team.

Childhood

Jillion Potter Austin, Texas to parents Scott Potter and Vikki Vranich. She has a twin brother Paul Thomas Potter and older sister Molly Potter Grosskopf.[1]

Rugby career

Potter has played for over a decade including the 2013 Women’s Rugby Sevens World Cup, 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup and 2016 Olympics.[2] She was a recipient of the inaugural Leadership Development Scholarship alongside Ada Milby (Philippines), Samantha Feausi (Hong Kong), Maha Zaoui (Tunisia), Rolande Boro (Burkina Faso), Dr. Araba "Roo" Chintoh (Canada), and Maria Thomas (Trinidad and Tobago).[3] She began her rugby career at the University of New Mexico.[4]

In 2019, she was on the first panel to determine the World Rugby women's-15s player-of-the-year award with Melodie Robinson, Danielle Waterman, Will Greenwood, Liza Burgess, Lynne Cantwell, Fiona Coghlan, Gaëlle Mignot, Stephen Jones, and Karl Te Nana.[5]

Personal life

She met her wife Carol Fabrizio in 2011, through rugby. She loves flossing her teeth and has her wife carry dental floss with her everywhere.[6] Potter was diagnosed with stage 3 Synovial Sarcoma cancer in 2014 and has since recovered.[7] [8] [9]

References

  1. Web site: Jillion Potter . https://web.archive.org/web/20160502202120/http://www.teamusa.org/usa-rugby/athletes/Jillion-Potter . dead . May 2, 2016 . TeamUSA . 2016-08-08.
  2. "WORLD RUGBY LEADERSHIP SCHOLARSHIPS DRIVE GENDER PARITY ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY." States News Service, March 7, 2018. Academic OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A530260070/AONE?u=yorku_main&sid=AONE&xid=6ba669a4. Accessed November 9, 2018.
  3. Web site: World Rugby leadership scholarships drive gender parity on International Women’s Day . 2023-06-19 . www.women.rugby . en.
  4. Web site: Jillion Potter - USA Olympian, Cancer Survivor, UNM Alumnae and More . 2023-06-19 . unmevents.unm.edu . en.
  5. Web site: Stars join new-look World Rugby Awards panels. worldrugby.org. www.world.rugby. March 24, 2019.
  6. Web site: Thanks to her wife, Jillion Potter can stop thinking about her teeth . 2016-02-13 . 2016-08-08.
  7. Web site: Jillion Potter: An inspiration on and off the field . worldrugby.org . en-gb . 2016-09-03.
  8. Web site: Jillion Potter: U.S. rugby's great survivor . Chris Borg . Dan Tham . Andy Stewart . July 20, 2016 . CNN . 2016-09-03.
  9. Web site: Surviving a broken neck and cancer, Jillion Potter becomes an Olympian and part of history . Meyer . John . August 7, 2016 . The Denver Post . 2016-09-03.

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