Stacey Flood
Rugby Sevens
BIOGRAPHY
Stacey Flood represented Ireland in the women’s Rugby Sevens tournament at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, starting all six of Ireland’s matches as fly-half as they made their historic debut in the event and finished 8th.
She was one of three players – alongside Lucy Rock and Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe – who had twice experienced Olympic qualification heartbreak in the 2016 and 2020 cycles, making the Paris achievement especially meaningful. From Rathmines, Dublin, the youngest of six children from a sporty family – her older sister Kim also played rugby sevens for Ireland – Flood played Gaelic football for Clanna Gael Fontenoy and Dublin up to minor level and soccer with Cambridge Girls before taking up rugby at 17, largely by chance.
She was contracted to the Ireland Sevens programme in 2015 within a year of starting the game and made her senior debut in Kazan that same year. A key figure in Ireland’s first ever SVNS Series title win in Perth in January 2024, she had accumulated 217 World Series appearances and scored her 50th World Series try in December 2023. She balances rugby with working in a financial solutions company. She is also an Ireland XVs fly-half, earning her first cap in the 2021 Six Nations.
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