Bella Milo
| Date of birth | 29 May 1986 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bella Milo (born 29 May 1986) is a Samoan rugby union player. She competed for Samoa at the 2006 and 2014 Rugby World Cups. She has also represented Samoa in sevens rugby.
Biography
[edit]Milo represented Samoa at the 2006 and 2014 Rugby World Cups.[1][2] In 2014 she took up her cousin's suggestion to play in Hong Kong and three years later she became the backs and the strength and conditioning coach for Hong Kong.[1][3] She made her third World Cup appearance in 2017 as Hong Kong's assistant coach.[1][4]
In 2016, Milo featured for the Samoa 7s team at the Olympic repechage tournament in Ireland.[4] In October 2023, she was named in the Manusina Samoa squad for the inaugural WXV 2 tournament in Cape Town, South Africa.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c McNicol, Andrew (2021-12-31). "Ex-Hong Kong coach Milo could face city as Samoa player in Rugby World Cup qualifier". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ^ "Bella Milo". Pinnacle Performance. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ^ Von Dincklage, Vaelei (2021-02-01). "Bella Milo: taking Samoan values to the world". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ^ a b "Bella Milo: Rugby World Cup 2021 could have huge impact on women's rugby in Hong Kong and Pacific Islands". www.world.rugby. 2021-02-17. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ^ worldrugby.org (2023-10-03). "WXV 2: Anticipation builds for South Africa as squads named". www.world.rugby. Retrieved 2023-10-08.