Brooke Newsome
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- Height:
- 5-9
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- Hometown:
- Brantford, ON
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- Position:
- Flanker
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- Eligibility:
- 3
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- Program:
- BSc HK 3
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- Prev. Team:
- ON Provincial Team
News mentions
The St. Francis Xavier X-Women hope to become the first team since 2009 to repeat as CIS women’s rugby champions this weekend as the national tournament moves from a six-team pool-play format to an eight-team single-elimination competition.
Second-year StFX prop Joanna Alphonso has been named the Atlantic University Sport most valuable player. This is the ninth time in the past 11 seasons that a member of the StFX X-Women has earned the honour.
The X-Women rugby team played a pair of exhibition games Thursday night and handily defeated their opponents. The first game featured a 58-5 victory over John Abbott College, then the CIS ranked No. 6 X-Women squad followed up with a 61-5 win over McGill.
The CIS ranked No. 4 X-Women rugby team defeated the UPEI Panthers 47-0 Friday evening in a rainy match at StFX Oland Stadium on Homecoming weekend.
The top ranked CIS No. 1 X-Women rugby team improved their AUS record to 2-0 with a 48-5 victory over the UPEI Panthers (0-2) Saturday afternoon.