Portia Woodman-Wickliffe Breaks Black Ferns Record For Career Tries
Portia Woodman-Wickliffe Breaks Black Ferns Record For Career Tries
Portia Woodman-Wickliffe broke the all-time tries record for the New Zealand Women's Rugby team after scoring seven tries in the Pacific Four Series finale.
Portia Woodman-Wickliffe probably didn't think she would break the Black Ferns' all-time tries record in her second game back from retirement, but seven tries in one match changes a lot of things.
Woodman-Wickliffe had hat tricks in both halves against the No. 9-ranked team in the world, in the Pacific Four Series final against the United States on May 23.
Her fifth try put the Black Ferns up 55-14 in the 57th minute at North Harbour Stadium in North Harbour, New Zealand. Moments later, she broke the record.
She's done it! Portia Woodman-Wickliffe becomes the record-holder for most tries scored by a @blackferns player 👑 #PacificFourSeries pic.twitter.com/lBZsB0NNJZ
— FloRugby (@FloRugby) May 24, 2025
Her record try came in the 68th minute as she passed Vanessa Cootes on the all-time list for the Black Ferns. She added a seventh try to end the game, a 79-14 win.
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Woodman-Wickliffe scored two tries in about three minutes in the first half, the first of which was set up by teenage star Braxton Sorenson-McGee.
After falling behind early to the United States, the Black Ferns, ranked No. 3 in the world by World Rugby, exploded for 24 unanswered points, including the two tries by Woodman-Wickliffe.
She added a third try just before halftime to give the Black Ferns a 34-14 lead. She scored three more in the in the first 20 minutes of the second half.
Portia Woodman-Wickliffe Unretired For The World Cup
One of the greatest women’s rugby players ever, Woodman-Wickliffe, 33, briefly retired after winning a gold medal in Paris on the New Zealand rugby sevens team. But with the Women’s World Cup in August, Woodman-Wickliffe decided to return and seek a third Women’s Rugby World Cup win.
Portia Woodman-Wickliffe added two more tries for the @blackferns to extend the score to 24-7 over @usarugby at 26' #PacificFourSeries pic.twitter.com/Ihcx7bUX6d
— FloRugby (@FloRugby) May 24, 2025
Portia Woodman-Wickliffe Stats
Woodman-Wickliffe scored her 200th point for the Black Ferns in the first half against the United States in her 26th test match. Woodman-Wickliffe was the World Rugby Women’s Player of the Year in 2017.
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