Gary Street

Gary Street
Date of birth 14 November 1967 (age 48)
Place of birth Birmingham, England
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position Scrumhalf
Amateur clubs
Years Club / team
1986-2004 Aston Old Edwardians
Coaching career
Years Club / team
2007-2015  England Women

Gary Street is an English rugby union coach. He coached England women's national rugby union team from 2007 and soon left his role after the England Women's Rugby team won the Rugby World Cup in 2014.[1]

Career

Playing career

Street played as a scrum-half for Aston Old Edwardians, Greater Birmingham (over a 20-year period) and North Midlands.[2]

Coaching career

Street, alongside Nigel Redman, were the pilot coaches for the RFU Academy programme designed by David Shaw in 2000. 8 of the 15 players became full internationals and 5 became World Cup Winners 14 years later. He was an assistant coach to Geoff Richards in 2006. winning his first Six Nations Grand Slam, before taking over as head coach a year later.[3][4] He coached them to the final of the 2010 Women's Rugby World Cup losing to the Black Ferns in the final.

Under his tutelage they won five Six Nations's in a row, 4 Nations Cup and 4 European Cups.[5] England Women won the 2014 women's World Cup 21-9 against Canada. The assistant coaches were Graham Smith and Simon Middleton. He is currently the most successful English rugby coach in history. Gary was UK overall and High Performance coach of the year 2014. He was awarded Pride of Sport coach of the year and nominated in BBC SPOTY coach of the year. England women's team were awarded Team of the Year. The squad and staff were given Freedom of the Borough of Rugby.

He is currently Head Coach at Oxford University Women's rugby team with their first ever Twickenham varsity in December 2015 and is now also working for Harlequins RFC as their Women's Head Coach for the 2016/2017 season.

References

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