| Name | Mel Antao |  |
| Nickname | Smelly, Melanini, Melaniania, Blondie | |
| Position | Wing/Fullback | |
| Birthday | 28-Jan | |
| Occupation | Facilities Project Manger, Football Foundation | |
| Date Joined Harlequins: | Jan-98 | |
| Previous clubs | University of Greenwich (played a couple of times for Saracens, Richmond and Blackheath) | |
| Representative Honours: | Rugby - England Students, South England Students, South East Region and Middlesex County | |
| Best Rugby moment | Too hard to name an outright, but these are the ones that will always stay close to my heart: Playing – Playing (and winning) against Supermarine in January 2000 the week after we heard that our friend and fellow player Sue Moloney had died of meningitis. It was one of the best performances I have been privileged to play in and it felt that there was something special with us that day… General – Being in The Sun Inn, Richmond watching Jonny Wilkinson’s drop kick when we won the RWC Final in 2003. There are only 2 places I would have wanted to witness that – there or in the Telstra Stadium! | |
| Worst Rugby moment | Playing - Tearing my ACL in the last minute of the last league of the season when we won promotion to Division 1 in April 2000. General – knowing that NEC Harlequins would be relegated after putting a fine performance against Sale in April 2005. That broke my heart! | |
| Rugby ambition | To play for as long as I can and help Harlequin Ladies be the best that it can be by reaching the premiership. | |
| Why rugby | It’s the best sport in the world that is truly for everyone; whatever size or shape and it is the only one where you get to put your own body on the line. I have played most sports, but rugby is the sport I love the best. | |
| Describe yourself | Loyal, friendly, a bit ditzy at times. Closet blonde! | |
| Favourite alcoholic beverage: | Gin & tonic | |
| Other sports | Skiing, golf, netball, spoof, fives, ice cube game | |
| Favourite meal | Steak, chips and salad followed by crème brulee | |
| Favourite film | Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Anchorman & Goldmember | |
| Most likely to say: | Spaces not faces or oopsey! | |
| Least likely to say: | I once kissed a horse on the mouth. | |
| Favourite quotation: | “I don't know how to put this but I'm kind of a big deal. People know me. I'm very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.” Ron Burgundy, Anchorman | |
| Best holiday (why): | The first time I ever went skiing and where we also convinced the residents of Tignes that we were the British Army stunt ski team filming the next James Bond movie… Luckily they never recognised us on the slopes!! | |
| Claim to fame: | Too many to mention, but my artwork once appeared on the Gallery and I have 2 Blue Peter badges. | |