Jodie Ounsley (born 17 January 2001)[1] is an English former rugby union player who played for Premier 15s side Exeter Chiefs Women as a winger.
[2] From Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, Ounsley was born prematurely and needed medication which subsequently impacted her hearing and became profoundly deaf.
She began playing rugby in October 2015 and by May 2016 was top try scorer for her age group Sandal Girls RUFC team and was representing Yorkshire under-15s.
[8] In 2018 Ounsley won the young Deaf Sports Personality award, following a year in which she scored for Yorkshire in the County Championship final held at Twickenham Stadium, represented England U18s against Wales U18s at the Principality Stadium, and signed for Premier 15s side Loughborough Lightning as well as being part of a winning World Deaf Rugby Sevens Championship side.
[11][12] Awarded a full-time England 7s contract she made her World Sevens Series debut in Glendale, Colorado, US and scored her first try in the event in Cape Town, South Africa, in December 2019.
[17] She injured her shoulder in the first game of the 2023-24 Allianz Cup and missed seven months of the season but returned to the Exeter side in April 2024 at the competition's semi-final stage for their match against Saracens Women.