Player Profile - Rhiannon Needham

By Michelle - October 6 2009
Player Profile - Rhiannon Needham
Name Rhiannon Needham 	Rhiannon Needham
Nickname Rhi
Position Wing/ Outside Centre/ Flanker (on the odd occasion)
Birthday 7th April
Occupation Futures Analyst
Date Joined Harlequins: Summer 2005
Previous clubs Millwall Venus, Kingston Uni
Representative Honours:  Surrey at Swimming when I was a kid!!, The Air Training Corps at Athletics
Best Rugby moment The first time I put on the Quins Shirt to play for HLFC. Scoring a try at The Twickenham Stoop.
Worst Rugby moment Breaking my ankle whilst playing in a friendly.
Rugby ambition To play for Middlesex and to get Quins Ladies into Championship 1 South East and then the premiership!
Why rugby It’s much better than playing Football! I enjoy the aggression.
Describe yourself Agressive and frustrated, but quiet and generally fairly laid back
Favourite alcoholic beverage: Beers and Ales from around the world.
Other sports Football, Cricket, Tennis, Skiing/ Snowboarding.
Favourite meal Chilli Con Carne and Tiramisu for desert
Favourite film The Crow
Most likely to say: “Come on Quins” or “Come on Fulham” "Face Bovvered"
Least likely to say: “I like Golf” or “Rugby league is better than union”
Favourite quotation: Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living, it doesn’t, it was here first, (Twain), Life is what you make if it, but most of us just fake it (Stereophonics)
Best holiday (why): Spending 3 months travelling across Canada on my own. Saw some wonderful places, met some fantastic people, and done things, which I had never done before.
Claim to fame: Being a line judge on Centre Court at the WTA DFS Classic in Edgbaston with Maria Sharapova and also being a line judge for the whole match at the Hurlingham club for Raphael Nadal vs Feliciano Lopez