Player Profile - Jemma Olga Cooper

By Alex Leigh - August 24 2010
One of this season's new recruits, Jemma has already made an impression at Middlesex 7s and on the pitch in our first season friendly. Scroll down for more info on the Durham graduate ...
Name Jemma Olga Cooper 	Hollie Blenman
Nickname Mount (wishful thinking)
Position Outside Centre - utility back
Birthday 1st Dec 1988
Occupation (Anti-)Money Laundering and Financial Crime
Date Joined Harlequins: July 2010
Previous clubs Grey College WRFC, University of Durham
Representative Honours: 1st female player to get sin binned in Durham rugby (in the 9th minute of a charity match for five high tackles).
Best Rugby moment See above.
Worst Rugby moment See above the above.
Rugby ambition To run, Forrest, run - but not off the pitch.
Why rugby They lied and then it was too late.
Describe yourself Ethnicity: Stuck-up Eurotrash

Political Views: Myself as the next female PM

Mind: Dirty

Nature: Good

Overarching belief: I’m generally right.

Most valued principle: never to take myself seriously.

Favourite alcoholic beverage: Sambucca
Other sports Basketball, hockey (7s only), sailing, swimming, social rower, social tennis player, seasoned foozball player and grudgingly picked as someone’s partner in the odd game of pool.
Favourite meal 1st course: King prawns.

2nd course: A medium rare entrecote with a sliver of fois gras melting on top and mange touts.

Dessert: Ben and Jerries cookie dough ice cream (a tub of).

Favourite film De Battre Mon Coeur s’est Arrete (The Beat that My Heart Skipped)
Most likely to say: Actually- literally.
Least likely to say: Lol.
Favourite quotation: “Oh, are you yet another lesbian?” Middx Sevens, to a ref. I truly apologise.
Best holiday (why): Costa Rica 2007, gap yaaahr: near death experience… actually- literally.
Claim to fame: Aged 9, cut baby sister’s umbilical cord with the bread knife still in use at home (after trying the scissors and a butter knife, neither of which worked because the cord was too slippery).