Date of birth | January 6, 1962 | ||||||||||||||||
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Height | 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
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Mary Gail Sullivan (born 6 January 1962) is a former American rugby union player. She captained the United States at the inaugural 1991 Women's Rugby World Cup held in Wales.[1][2]
Sullivan made her Eagles debut on November 14 1987 against Canada at Victoria, British Columbia. It was the first women's test match to be played outside of Europe.[3]
Sullivan's rugby career spanned over twenty years. She graduated from the Muscular Therapy Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1993 and taught there for fifteen years.[4][5][6] She also served as department chair of the Massage Technique department and went into private practice in 1992.[7]
In 2017 Sullivan and the 1991 World Cup squad were inducted into the United States Rugby Hall of Fame.[8][9]