Zoe Dare

About Zoe
DOB 07/10/2002
Born Chipping Norton
Height 5ft 8ins/1.72m
Weight 11st 13lbs / 76kg

Position Back-Row
Total Appearances
Total Tries
Total Points
Previous Club Gloucester-Hartpury

Zoe Dare returned to her Devon roots when she began a new contract with Exeter Chiefs Women for the 2025/26 next season.

The back-row move down the M5 from Gloucester-Hartpury to begin a new phase of her rugby-playing career after completing an MSc in sports management at Hartpury University.

Born in Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, the Dare family moved to Devon when Zoe was eight. Her first rugby club was Cullompton RFC. She played for Devon U15s and U18s while she attended Blundell’s School before heading to Cardiff University to study environmental sustainability science. It was as captain of the women’s 1st XV at the university where she caught the eye of the Hartpury selectors.

The 22-year-old will not be the first member of the Dare family to be involved in the Exeter Chiefs programme. Her older brother Hal was a former member of the Exeter Chiefs Academy.

She said: “I’m super excited to be coming back to Devon and to be near my family. But most of all, I am excited about the opportunity ahead of me next season.”

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