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Angela McGregor

rugby player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ112612324 ↗
Source-derived summary

Angela McGregor is a former New Zealand rugby sevens player. She represented New Zealand at the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Dubai.

McGregor was named in the Black Ferns sevens Development Squad for the 2001 International Women's Sevens Tournament at Upper Hutt.

In 2008, she was selected in a squad of 29 players for a three-day trial camp. It was to select the final squad for a qualifying tournament in Samoa.

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The public source identifies “Angela McGregor” as rugby player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Angela, McGregor and rugby.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2001, 2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Angela, McGregor and rugby providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Angela McGregor”, the useful work is to connect “rugby player” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q112612324. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009, 2001 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Angela McGregor” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.