Ulster Women’s Rugby and Belfast Harlequins Ladies lost their Team Manager at the end of 2011 when Natalie Bryant returned to Australia after four and a half years in the Province. We caught up with Natalie before she left to find out how things have changes in the Women’s game in Ulster during that time.
What brought you over here?
Came over with Grandparents who had been thirty years in Australia. I came over to use Belfast as a base to explore Europe from and didn’t expect to stay as long as I did, maybe a year or two, but fell in love with Belfast and the people, got involved in Rugby and stayed for 4 1/2 years!
How did you get involved with rugby?
Always found the easiest way to meet people was to join a team and I was involved with rugby in Australia with the University in Canberra. I rang up Queens and went along to their training and a couple of the girls took me along to Harlequins, who were playing in the AIL, whereas Queens were in development at that stage. So I went along . . .
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