Ireland international is researching women’s tackling safety for her PhD - and working to get back into competition following a brain haemorrhage
“Oftentimes what happens is a woman is excelling in another sport, like soccer or Gaelic football, and they are just rushed in to play rugby because they can do a job. And maybe they get stuck on the wing, where they don’t have to make that many tackles, but you do get faced with the odd tackle or two. And there is an assumption that women know how to tackle, and how to execute this skill safely.
“It just shouldn’t be done and you don’t get it in the men’s game,” she says. “If you put somebody on a soccer pitch and they have never controlled a ball before, it doesn’t lend itself to performance, so why would we let that happen for tackling in rugby?” “We have basically assessed coaches’ knowledge, attitudes and practices in regard to tackle training – what do they do in practice?” explains Dane. “We wanted to compare that to what the players in our interviews had told us about their tackle training and, hopefully, come up with some sort of consensus in how we approach tackle training in women’s rugby to make it safer.
Dane was subsequently diagnosed with an arteriovenous malfunction , a tangle of blood vessels connecting arteries and veins in the brain. “Some people are born with them and they don’t burst and bleed,” explains Dane. “But mine decided to do so that day, but I was very lucky to be in a high-performance gym as it could have happened in the car heading to training. So it was a freak thing, nothing to do with rugby.
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