Date of birth | 16 September 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Height | 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Royce Chan Leong-sze (born 16 September 1978) is a former Hong Kong rugby union player. She has represented Hong Kong internationally in rugby fifteens and sevens.[1] She competed at the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup in Ireland.[2][3]
Chan retired after the 2017 World Cup, she currently works as a women's high performance coach at the Hong Kong Rugby Union.[4][5] She captained the Hong Kong women's sevens team at the 2014 Hong Kong Women's Sevens. It was her ninth Hong Kong Women's Sevens appearance.[6][7] She made her tenth appearance in the tournament in 2015.[8]
In 2019 she was nominated for the Women's Sports Leadership Academy for High Performance Coaches (WSLA). It was a programme partnered by World Rugby and the International Olympic Committee.[4][9]
Chan was announced as Head of Women’s Rugby Performance by the Hong Kong Rugby Union on 8 March 2023.[10][11] She had coached Hong Kong at the 2022 Asia Rugby Women's Championship when they beat Kazakhstan to win the series.[10][11]