Richie Pugh
Assistant coach
Profile
Biog
Born
10th August 1983
Place of Birth
Swansea, Wales
Years with Wales
2017 - Present
Playing Career
Swansea, Cardiff, Ospreys, Scarlets, London Welsh, Exeter, Wales U16, Wales U19, Wales U21, Wales, Wales Sevens
Coaching Career
Wales Women, Wales Sevens, GB Rugby Sevens Women's Olympic Team, Ospreys
The former flanker was capped once for Wales on a try-scoring debut against USA in 2005. He was also part of the Wales sevens team who won the Melrose Cup at the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens tournament in Dubai.
Having formerly been an assistant coach for Wales Women (forwards), Richie took up a role as assistant coach to Gareth Williams for the Wales Sevens squad on his return from the Rio Olympic Games where he was assistant coach to Simon Middleton for the women’s GB sevens team.
Pugh spent just over two years as an assistant coach with Ospreys before returning to the WRU in November 2021 as head of sevens. He joined the Wales U20 men’s coaching team prior to the 2023 U20 World Championship.
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