{"id":302790,"date":"2026-02-26T07:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/302790\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T07:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:39:08","slug":"portia-woodman-wickliffe-retires-from-international-rugby-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/302790\/","title":{"rendered":"Portia Woodman-Wickliffe retires from international rugby again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">Whether in sevens or 15s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/portia-woodman-wickliffes-nrlw-switch-halted-by-world-cup-ambassador-role\/ZVURVSZNRRCW7I6WXGDHDTNMAI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/portia-woodman-wickliffes-nrlw-switch-halted-by-world-cup-ambassador-role\/ZVURVSZNRRCW7I6WXGDHDTNMAI\/\">Woodman-Wickliffe has lit up fields around the globe with her raw pace, power, and inexplicable eye for the try-line.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">She walks away as the highest try scorer for the Black Ferns in both codes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">The Black Ferns confirmed the news on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI am deeply grateful for the opportunity to represent my country, my iwi, my hap\u016b and my wh\u0101nau one last time on the World Cup stage, a moment I will cherish forever. As I step into this next chapter of my life, I feel both excited and a little nervous, but I\u2019m ready.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">Woodman-Wickliffe was named World Rugby\u2019s Sevens Player of the Year in 2015, Women\u2019s Player of the Year (XVs) in 2017 and in 2020 was named the top women\u2019s sevens player of the past decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">The Woodman family name carries with it a bit of weight on the rugby field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">Not only did Portia grow up with an All Black father Kawhena, her uncle Fred Woodman played in two tests in the infamous 1981 series against the Springboks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">Arguably, Woodman-Wickliffe\u2019s high-water mark in the 15-a-side code was during the 2017 Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup, in which she scored a tournament-record 13 tries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">Eight of them came in one match against Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">\u2013 RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whether in sevens or 15s, Woodman-Wickliffe has lit up fields around the globe with her raw pace, power,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6030,71,1019,111,139,69,50635,6652,6327,2022,213,50636],"class_list":["post-302790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-again","tag-from","tag-international","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-portia","tag-retires","tag-rugby","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-woodmanwickliffe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}