Bella Milo
Date of birth (1986-05-29) 29 May 1986
Height1.7 m (5 ft 7 in)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Fly-half
Provincial / State sides
Years Team Apps (Points)
2008–2014 Auckland 30 (58)
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2006–2023  Samoa
National sevens team(s)
Years Team Comps
2016  Samoa
Coaching career
Years Team
2017  Hong Kong (assistant coach)

Bella Milo (born 29 May 1986) is a Samoan rugby union player. She competed for Samoa at the 2006 and 2014 Rugby World Cups. She has also represented Samoa in sevens rugby.

Biography

Milo represented Samoa at the 2006 and 2014 Rugby World Cups.[1][2] In 2014 she took up her cousin's suggestion to play in Hong Kong and three years later she became the backs and the strength and conditioning coach for Hong Kong.[1][3] She made her third World Cup appearance in 2017 as Hong Kong's assistant coach.[1][4]

In 2016, Milo featured for the Samoa 7s team at the Olympic repechage tournament in Ireland.[4] In October 2023, she was named in the Manusina Samoa squad for the inaugural WXV 2 tournament in Cape Town, South Africa.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 McNicol, Andrew (2021-12-31). "Ex-Hong Kong coach Milo could face city as Samoa player in Rugby World Cup qualifier". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
  2. ↑ "Bella Milo". Pinnacle Performance. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
  3. ↑ Von Dincklage, Vaelei (2021-02-01). "Bella Milo: taking Samoan values to the world". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
  4. 1 2 "Bella Milo: Rugby World Cup 2021 could have huge impact on women's rugby in Hong Kong and Pacific Islands". www.world.rugby. 2021-02-17. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
  5. ↑ worldrugby.org (2023-10-03). "WXV 2: Anticipation builds for South Africa as squads named". www.world.rugby. Retrieved 2023-10-08.
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