Ilaria Arrighetti | |
Birth Date: | 2 March 1993 |
Birth Place: | Cernusco sul Naviglio, Lombardy |
Height: | 1.73m (05.68feet) |
Weight: | 78kg (172lb) |
Ru Currentposition: | Back row |
Ru Currentteam: | Stade Rennais Rugby |
Amatyears1: | 2011–2015 |
Amatyears2: | 2015–present |
Amatteam1: | ASD Rugby Monza 1949 |
Amatteam2: | Stade Rennais Rugby |
Repyears1: | 2012–present |
Repteam1: | Italy |
Repcaps1: | 51 |
Ru Ntupdate: | 17 April 2022 |
Ilaria Arrighetti (born 2 March 1993, in Cernusco sul Naviglio) is an Italian rugby union player who plays in the back row for Stade Rennais Rugby and the Italy women's national rugby union team.
Ilaria Arrighetti was born on 2 March 1993,[1] in Cernusco sul Naviglio near to the Metropolitan City of Milan, Lombardy. She began playing rugby while at secondary school, and became captain of the mixed gender under-13 rugby union team, although she was the only female on the team.[2]
Arrighetti made her debut for the Italy women's national rugby union team in 2012.[2] According to her biography on the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup website, Arrighetti is 1.73m (05.68feet) tall and weighs 78kg (172lb).[1] At club level, she played for the women's side of ASD Rugby Monza 1949, until 2015 when she transferred to Stade Rennais Rugby in France. At the time, she did not speak any French. In Rennes, she lives with three other members of the Italian national team.[2]
Arrighetti was selected in Italy's squad for the 2021 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.[3] [4]