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As sporting resumés go, Amanda Swartz's is pretty unusual. As a teenager, Amanda was a gracing the ice as a competitive figure-skater before switching to rugby when injury struck. The Sweden and Leicester Tigers rugby player discusses how switching sports has influenced her rugby career. Speaking to Sporthour’s Caroline Barker, the 23-year-old said: “It was at that 15, 16 stage when I started getting injury problems, basically. The intensity we were training at just started to really affect my feet and my joints. “I came to a point where I think I wanted to go further, but my body quite literally couldn’t keep up with the physical demands. “Figure skating taught me a lot of discipline. It taught me hard work. It taught me the physical demands of doing sport at this level." Photo: #15 Amanda Swartz of Sweden is tackled by Kim Andrey Evans of Switzerland and passes the ball to #12 Emelie Hellgren of Sweden during the Rugby Europe Women's Trophy match between Switzerland and Sweden at Centre sportif des Cherpines on March 12, 2022 in Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland. (Credit: RvS.Media/Basile Barbey/Getty Images)