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Bird and LJ welcome Vicky Macqueen.

Vicky, who received a British Empire Medal for services to sport, was an England international with 34 caps, plus also representing England at 7s.

She has coach men's rugby with Hinkley, was director of women's rugby at Loughborough University, as well as coaching at Lichfield Women.

In 2015 she founded didi Rugby UK and now has franchises across the UK, New Zealand, Australia and Italy.

She has also featured as a radio commentator at Women's World Cups and on Leicester Tigers games.

Here are the questions we asked her:

• Talk is through your coaching and playing journey.
• What made you leave teaching and set up didi Rugby?
• What have been your biggest learning points since starting up your business?
• What advice would you give to anyone wishing to do this?
• What has been the biggest impact of didi Rugby, on young children and any young coaches involved? 
• When working with young children, what would you say are the most important skills to develop? 
• What has been your most amusing moment working with young children? 
• Do you find any similarities when coaching children or adults?
• How do you differentiate the sessions for 18 months to 6 yr olds?
• What skills from your teaching have you found most useful when coaching? 
• How do you ensure learning occurs when planning a session for young children? 
• You have an extremely successful franchise in England how easy was it to set up in NZ, Italy and Australia? 
• What was it like receiving your BEM?
• What has been the proudest moment of your rugby career? 
• How have you adapted during lockdown? 
• What’s next for you? 

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