Rugby player
| Birth name | Connor Sean Doherty | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (2000-07-18) 18 July 2000 (age 24) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Manchester, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 93 kg (14 st 9 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | St Ambrose College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Connor Doherty (born 18 July 2000) is an English professional rugby union player who plays as a centre for Premiership Rugby club Sale Sharks.
Rugby career
Doherty was educated at Saint Ambrose College. He started playing rugby as a junior at Altrincham Kersal. He joined the academy of Sale Sharks and in November 2017 made his professional club debut in an Anglo-Welsh Cup game against Worcester Warriors at the age of seventeen.
Doherty was part of the England Sevens side who won a silver medal at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games in The Bahamas. He was a member of the England under-20 squad that finished fifth at the 2019 World Rugby Under 20 Championship. The following year saw him score the winning try against Scotland during the 2020 Six Nations Under 20s Championship.
On 23 May 2024, Doherty would join Premiership rivals Newcastle Falcons on a season-long loan for the 2024-25 aeason.
References
- "Connor Doherty". ESPN. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 17 August 2021. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - "SHARKS SECURE SIGNATURES OF 4 PROMISING YOUNGSTERS". Sale Sharks. 27 November 2018. Archived from the original on 21 September 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
- ^ "Sale Sharks: The next generation". Premiership Rugby. 25 July 2017. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
- "Connor Doherty club statistics". It's Rugby. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
- "World Rugby U20 Championship: England U20 45-26 Wales U20". BBC Sport. 22 June 2019. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
- Lorimer, Alan (7 February 2020). "Scotland U20 17 - 21 England". The Scotsman. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
- "Newcastle Falcons bring in centre Connor Doherty from Sale". BBC Sport. 23 May 2024. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
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