Danielle Waterman

Danielle "Nolli" Waterman (born 20 January 1985) is a retired English rugby union and sevens player. Being a member of England, she is a multiple Women's Six Nations Championship winner and became a world champion in 2014.

Early life and career
Danielle Waterman is the youngest of 3 and only daughter of Jim Waterman, who played in more than 400 games for Bath. Rugby took hold of her while Waterman's family was staying in New Zealand. At Palmerston North Girls' High School, she was one of a few girls who played rugby with the boys. She continued to do so at her first sports club, Minehead Barbarians RFC, after returning to England. She played for the South West regional U-16s squad until she was selected to the England Senior Academy at the age of 15.

Sports career
On her Test debut in 2003 against Ireland, 18-year-old Danielle Waterman became the youngest woman then to represent her country. She won the award for England's Most Promising Player in 2006 and was the national team's vice captain when England won the 2012 Women's European Championship. After winning silver medals at the 2006 and 2010 World Cups, she became World Champion at the 2014 World Cup having scored a try in the final against Canada. Subsequently, Waterman was awarded Gloucestershire's Professional Sports Personality of 2014, in addition to the English team receiving the BBC Sports Personality Team of the Year Award.

Waterman holds a Level 3 Rugby Union coaching certificate. In 2014, she signed a professional contract with England 7s to prepare for the 2016 Summer Olympics. After suffering a knee injury and, later on, a broken cheekbone, Waterman was forced to pause for more than a year. She returned to the field in April 2016 at the Canada Women's Sevens scoring a try in her first appearance in the pool game against Ireland. The English national team won the series tournament with Waterman being named to the tournament's dream team.

Waterman was picked for the final selection of Great Britain's national rugby sevens team competing at the 2016 Summer Olympics. The team finished the tournament on 4th place losing against New Zealand in the semi-final and against Canada in the match for the bronze medals.

In 2019, she was on the first panel to determine the World Rugby women's-15s player-of-the-year award with Melodie Robinson, Will Greenwood, Liza Burgess, Lynne Cantwell, Fiona Coghlan, Gaëlle Mignot, Jillion Potter, Stephen Jones, and Karl Te Nana.