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WALES\u00a0Women have paid tribute to Elli Norkett — \u201dan outstanding rugby player\u201d — who died in a car crash last Saturday at 20 years of age. <\/span>
\nElli had made her debut for Wales aged just 17, becoming the youngest player at the 2014 Rugby World Cup in the process. <\/span>
\nShe won four caps for the national side, as well as representing her country at sevens and playing for the Ospreys and Cardiff Met University.<\/span>
\nAt an emotional press conference held at The Vale on Thursday, Wales Women\u2019s coach Rowland Phillips said: \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to put into words — it\u2019s tragic. We\u2019re hurting, but we\u2019re all here to support each other. <\/span>
\n\u201cHer dynamic power — there was nobody in our squad to that level. <\/span>
\nPhillips also praised Elli for \u201cher personality, her values, the energy that she would create in the room, how she would always bring a smile to people\u2019s faces\u201d. \u00a0<\/span>
\nHe said: \u201cI\u2019m sure she\u2019s looking down on us probably smiling. What she would want is for us to pull together tighter. <\/span>
\n\u201cWe all pay our respects in different ways, but if we collectively carry her values, her determination, her spirit with us as a group, that to me would be the perfect way for us to show our respect as a squad.\u201d<\/span>
\nOspreys and Wales teammate Siwan Lillicrap also paid her respects to a dear friend.<\/span>
\n\u201cShe wasn\u2019t just a teammate to us,\u201d she said. <\/span>
\n\u201cShe\u2019d walk into a room and she was very affectionate — she\u2019d give you a massive hug and you\u2019d immediately feel warm. <\/span>
\n\u201cShe didn\u2019t have a bad bone in her body. She really cared about people and cared about what she did. <\/span>
\n\u201cEvery game this Six Nations, I\u2019ve had a personal message from her before the match saying \u2018Good Luck\u2019. <\/span>
\n\u201cIt\u2019s going to be strange not receiving that, but I know a load of the other girls also had that because that\u2019s the type of caring person she was. <\/span>
\n\u201cShe was always part of a team and will always be part of our team. <\/span>
\n\u201cWhat\u2019s keeping us all going now is knowing that we will no longer be playing with 15 people, we\u2019ll be playing with 16 because she\u2019ll always be with us on that pitch in some format.\u201d <\/span>
\nCardiff Met play Loughborough University tonight at 7pm at Cardiff Arms Park, where there will be a minute\u2019s applause for Elli and a memorial book for people to sign. A crowd of around 1,500 is expected. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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