Clare Daniels

Clare Daniels is an English international rugby union referee and is the world's most capped female Test referee.
She has played scrum-half for Tor RFC in Glastonbury for a few years in the late 1990s before the team disbanded and Daniels decided to take part in a training course run by the Somerset Rugby Referees' Society.
Her international debut was on 2 July 2005, when she refereed the Canada Cup (rugby union)|Canada Cup] match between Canada women's national [rugby union team|Canada] and Scotland. Since then she has been selected to officiate at Women's Rugby World Cup in 2006 [Women's Rugby World Cup|2006] and 2010 Women's [Rugby World Cup|2010], 2009 [Rugby World Cup Sevens], Women's Six Nations in 2007 Women's [Six Nations Championship|2007], 2008, 2009 and 2010 and other tournaments, including some men's matches in National [League 2 North] and National League 2 South.
After working as a Bath Chronicle sports writer for seven years, Daniels took up a full-time role with the RFU refereeing team as the new Southern Region Referee Development Manager on 2 August 2010.