Russell Earnshaw

Career

Earnshaw has player Premiership rugby with West Hartlepool, Bath Rugby and Rotherham Titans, winning the European Cup whilst at Bath. While at University at Cambridge he played for the Blues side in two winning Varsity matches. In 2000 he was selected to play for the Barbarians in their match against Germany.

He was assistant coach to the England 7"s team from 2007-2013, retiring after the 2013 World Cup final defeat to New Zealand.

While at Doncaster Earnshaw helped to coach the side and joined Pertemps Bees for the 07/08 season as player/forwards coach. Whilst there, he was head coach of Birmingham and Solihull Rugby Club and assistant coach of the England 7"s team

Earnshaw also coached the Great Britain Students side to World University Champions in 2012. Earnshaw now teaches Economics and coaches rugby at Eastbourne College, he is a Level 4 RFU coach, Coach Developer, Coach Educator and Level 4 mentor.

Achievements

• He then joined Worcester in Division 1 and helped them to win promotion to the Premiership before signing for Doncaster with whom he achieved Promotion to the Championship. Earnshaw has played for England on the Institutional Review Board Sevens circuit, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, and was part of the squad that played in the Institutional Review Board World Series tournaments in Chile and Argentina in 2001. In 2010, Russell completed the "Great Escape" for Birmingham & Solihull Rugby Club, leading them to an unexpected resurgence in the relegation playoffs, despite not having won a game for the entire season. Between 2007 and 2013, England won several tournaments on the World Series including back-to-back Dubai titles in 2011 and 2012, the Twickenham Sevens in 2009, plus England"s first ever victory in Wellington in 2009 and more recently again in 2013. In 2013, England won the silver medal at the 7"s Rugby World Cup in Moscow.