I know a lot of the players there and I have watched the team progress.”[4] Before joining the Watsonians, she had also played for Murrayfield Wanderers and Hillhead Jordanhill.
[5] She scored the winning try in the last minute for Hillhead Jordanhill in the 2013 Sarah Beaney Cup Final at Murrayfield against RHC Cougars.
[1] Gaffney made her international debut off the bench for women's XVs against the Netherlands in Amsterdam in November 2011.
[15][16] In 2012, she was selected to play for the Great Britain women's sevens team at the World Student Games 7s in Brive in July 2012.
[19] In 2017, she scored a try against Romania in the Europe Women’s Sevens Trophy, helping the team to victory in the overall championship.
[20] In 2020, she was one of six female Scottish rugby players selected for the Team GB Sevens training squad for the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
[23] The 28-year-old works for the School of Hard Knocks, which delivers life-changing programmes across the UK using rugby, boxing and strongman courses, supported by a curriculum of powerful life lessons.