Kendra Cocksedge

Kendra Cocksedge (born 1 July 1988) is a female rugby union and cricket representative. She plays for the New Zealand women's national rugby union side, the Black Ferns and for Canterbury provincially. She was a member of the 2010 Women's Rugby World Cup winning squad.
Originally from Taranaki, Cocksedge played rugby from a young age and made the Taranaki and Hurricanes Secondary School teams in her youth. In 2007, at the age of 19, she made her debut for Canterbury after having moved there to study at Lincoln University.
In 2014 Cocksedge started in all nine matches for the Canterbury Women's Provincial Team, performing strongly and scoring 101 points. Following this Cocksedge made her Test debut for New Zealand and was named in the squad to the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup. In 2015 she was top point scorer with 26 points at the 2015 Women’s Rugby Super Series. She was named New Zealand's Women's Player of the Year at the end of 2015.
Cocksedge has also represented New Zealand in the sport of Rugby Sevens and was a member of the winning team of the Women's Sevens World Series in 2013.