MY LIFEIN RUGBYBRISTOL BEARS WOMEN’S HEAD COACH AND FORMER BATH, NORTHAMPTON, SALE, CORNISH PIRATES, HARLEQUINS AND AMPTHILL HOOKER/FLANKERDAVE WARD

IT all began for me at my hometown club Bath. I went through the minis, juniors but not through the academy system, as I went to The Ridings in Bristol, not Colston’s or Millfield. I was a ball boy down at The Rec and I’ll always remember walking into the changing room at Lambridge for the first time as a first-team squad player and Matt Perry jokingly saying, ‘what’s the ball boy doing in here?’ Pe...