Suzy Drane was born in St Asaph, north Wales on 27 November 1986 and was educated at Christleton HS and Rydal Penrhos before heading south to attend what is now Cardiff Met Univetsity. She developed through the Welsh netball pathway, launching her club career at Chester before making her senior international debut at 18. She
John Gwilliam was one of the greatest of all Welsh rugby captains and led Wales to two Grand Slams in three years in theFfifties. He guided Wales to glory in the 1950 and 1952 Five Nations campaigns and ended with a 73% success rate as captain of his country with nine wins and a draw
In 2001 Gareth Edwards was voted the ‘Greatest Welsh Rugby Player’ of all-time’ and in 2003, in a poll of international rugby players conducted by Rugby World magazine, he was declared the greatest player of all-time. He scored one of the greatest tries of all-time for the Barbarians when they beat the All Blacks in
Wales’ Grand Slam skipper in 1976 and one of the games’ greatest No8s, Mervyn Davies won 38 Welsh caps before injury cut him down in his prime. He won two Grand Slams and three Triple Crowns with Wales and made eight successive Test appearances for the British & Irish Lions, winning five and drawing two,
John Dawes can lay claim to one of the greatest of all rugby union careers. He captained Wales to a Grand Slam in 1971 and then coached them to similar success in 1976 and 1978. He led the British & Irish Lions to their only success in New Zealand in 1971 and then coached the
Dr Jack Matthews was renowned as one of the hardest tacklers in the world game, described by one rival as “a cross between a bulldozer and a brick wall”. He won 17 caps for Wales as a centre and wing between 1947-51, playing in all four Grand Slam matches in 1950, and played in all