Debbie Chase

Debbie Chase is a former rugby union player. She debuted for the New [Zealand women's national rugby union team|Black Ferns] against the Netherlands at the RugbyFest 1990. She led the first haka to be performed by a women's team at the 1991 Women's Rugby World Cup.

Career

Chase has represented New Zealand in three different codes; rugby union, rugby league and softball. She has also represented Canterbury in athletics, volleyball, basketball, rugby sevens, football and volleyball.
In 1998, she was a part of the Kiwi Ferns that beat a touring Great Britain in a 1998 Great [Britain Women's Rugby League Tour of New Zealand|three test series].