Kathryn Treder (born March 17, 1996) is an American rugby union player. She has been a hooker and flanker for the United States national women's rugby union team since 2019 and represented the United States in the 2021 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. She has also played professionally with the Darlington Mowden Park Sharks and the Loughborough Lightning in the Premiership Women's Rugby league, and will play for the Bay Breakers in the inaugural season of the Women's Elite Rugby competition in 2025.

Rugby career

After playing for the Stanford University club team for four years and serving as the captain, Treder played for the Beantown women's side in the Women's Premier League. The team placed second in the league. In her first season, she was selected for the WPL's all-star match and in 2019, was selected for the U.S national fifteens team. She made her first appearance in November 19 at the CanAm series in San Diego, California.[1]

She made her first World Cup appearance with the United States in 2021.[2] Up until 2022, Treder continued to play for Beantown and served as an assistant coach for the women's rugby team at Wellesley College.[2] In 2022, she was named as one of the 15 leaders under 30 in women's rugby by the U.S. Women's Rugby Foundation.[2]

She played for the Darlington Mowden Park Sharks in the 2022–2023 season of the Premiership Women's Rugby (PWR) competition, then switched to the Loughborough Lightning for the 2023-2024 PWR season.[3][4]

On February 18, 2025, she was named in the Bay Breakers squad for their inaugural season of the Women's Elite Rugby competition.[5][6]

Biography and personal life

Treder was born on March 17, 1996, in Anchorage, Alaska to Luanna and Abraham Greybear.[7] She is the second oldest of ten children and grew up helping to take care of her younger siblings. Treder is of Inupiaq and Aleut descent.[8]

She attended Anchorage West High School, where she competed in the long jump and triple jump for the track team and the boys wrestling team.[9][10][11] After graduating in 2014, she went on to study political science and comparative studies in race and ethnicity at Stanford University.

After graduating from Stanford, Treder moved to Boston to do research in the political science department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[8]

She became engaged to fellow rugby player Alev Kelter at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.[12]

References

  1. ^ "Kathryn Treder | Player Profile". US Eagles. Retrieved 2025-03-05.
  2. ^ a b c "Kathryn "Ktredz' Treder". U.S. Women's Rugby Foundation. Retrieved 2025-03-05.
  3. ^ Bulmer, Tom (January 12, 2024). "Treder Joins Sharks Ranks". Darlington Mowden Park RFC News. Retrieved 2025-03-05.
  4. ^ "Kathryn Treder extends Loughborough Lightning contract". Northampton Saints. June 13, 2024. Retrieved 2025-03-05.
  5. ^ Lane, Ro (2025-02-18). "Bay Breakers Announce 2025 Athlete Roster". Women's Elite Rugby. Retrieved 2025-02-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ Perkins, Bruce (2025-02-19). "Women's Elite Rugby – Our first Roster!". 4 The Love Of Sport. Retrieved 2025-03-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ "Shareholder Spotlight: Luanna Greybear". Bering Straits Native Corporation. 2022-08-19. Retrieved 2025-03-05.
  8. ^ a b Bragg, Beth (August 8, 2021). "An Anchorage woman's struggle between duty to family and pursuit of sport is captured in USA Rugby documentary". Anchorage Daily News. Retrieved 2025-03-05.
  9. ^ Reed, Josh (August 8, 2023). "Alaska rugby stars share goal to inspire Alaska's next generation of players". Anchorage Daily News. Retrieved 2025-03-05.
  10. ^ Hickman, Matt (2021-09-21). "Inupiaq rugby star Kathryn Treder vying to join Team USA in New Zealand for 2022 World Cup". The Anchorage Press. Retrieved 2025-03-05.
  11. ^ Williams, Van (2022-05-05). "Eagle River's Alev Kelter and Anchorage's Kathryn Treder part of USA women's rugby player pool for World Cup roster". Alaska Sports Report. Retrieved 2025-03-05.
  12. ^ Rude, Mey (August 6, 2024). "Gay rugby player proposes to GF after winning Olympic bronze". www.out.com. Retrieved 2025-03-05.
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