| Personal Information Summary | |
|---|---|
| Name | Sara Orchard |
| Birthday / Date of Birth / Age / How old / DOB | No confirmed information is available. |
| Wedding / Husband / Relationships / Marriage / Partner | No confirmed information is available. |
| Where did Sara go to study Sports Science? | Sheffield Hallam University. |
| Children / No. of Kids | None |
| Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | White |
| Nationality | British |
Wiki Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
Sara Orchard is a savvy sports reporter. Believing that women are just as interested in sports as men, she continues to make in-roads into male-dominated rugby broadcast teams.
Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education
- Sara attended Exeter School in Exeter, Devon, and studied Economics, English, and Theatre before heading to Sheffield Hallam University to study Sports Science.
- While at Exeter, she was instrumental in forming the girls’ rugby team.
- Sara then worked for local radio in Devon and moved to London to work for the BBC. She still attends alumni events at Exeter, encouraging students to become involved in the media and sports.
- In one alumna address, Orchard discussed the hurdles she’s faced becoming established in broadcasting.
- She encouraged students to “believe in yourself, and always take on a challenge.”
- Sara said that she started reading traffic reports and that adherence to deadlines and being fully prepared by researching her topics helped her to move ahead professionally.
- The unsocial hours, unpredictable lifestyle, and breaking down of social norms made this a challenge. Still, she says having a “love of sport, and especially rugby,” allowed her to counter the difficulties in her career path.
Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :
- Orchard has been following women’s rugby since grade school. She says she will “generally be found near rugby, hockey, tennis, or pudding.”
- Sara is also a proficient investigative reporter who has been known to scoop a story on the train, like in the NHS hospitals restructuring of 2015. She received credit from editors and colleagues for being enterprising enough to recognize and seize the initiative on such a controversial issue.
- Sara is an accomplished BBC commentator on a variety of sports, but especially rugby. She has experience working on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC London TV News, Six Nations. As one of BBC’s youngest women sports reporters, she also presented during the Rugby World Cup.
- She has also worked the 2010 and 2014 Olympics, for the Winter Olympics in Sochi and Singapore, and through the Olympic Broadcast Service with the Youth Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.
- Not just restricted to rugby reporting, she has been active in other sports, commentating at Wimbledon, Queens Tennis, and the US Open, European Championships for hockey, and even doing some editing for BBC News.
- She frequently utilizes social media to discuss rugby and its exciting moments.
- Orchard is a qualified coach and referee, well versed in the sport and grasping an impressive knowledge of its ins-and-outs. Still, she has occasionally been taunted and considered a pariah by other commentators.
- This hasn’t stopped Sara but inspired her to make history in November 2016 by becoming the first woman to be a lead commentator on an international rugby match. She breaks the stereotype that women shouldn’t be involved in organized sports or commentating, and she’s tackling the field like a rugby player herself.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Sara and her grandfather, Tony, both attended Exeter independent day school as youths.
Sara Orchard actually studied Journalism Studies at Sheffield University.
Sara was also a good trampolinist at our club at Broadclyst Sports Center, just outside Exeter.