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Sarah Law (born 19 December 1994) is a Scottish rugby player from Edinburgh. She plays for Scotland and has represented them at the 2021 Women's Six Nations Championship.

Club career
Law started playing rugby at Penicuik Rugby Club aged five, playing in the mixed mini side throughout her primary school years until she moved to secondary school, aged 11. At that point, she moved on to the Murrayfield Wanderers girls U15/U18 team. She was a flanker for both the University team and Murrayfield Wanderers. She began playing for Wanderers' senior team in January 2012, as she had just turned 17, and helped them win the league and cup double that season.

Law played in numerous schools' cup finals and, in 2012, scored 32 points and picked up Player of the Match as Wanderers beat Plockton HS to the Brewin Dolphin Scottish Schools Shield.

In 2019, Sarah signed for Darlington Mowden Park. She is currently not attached to a local club.

International career
Law first played for Scotland 7s in June 2012. Her international debut took place in the England v Scotland match of 2013 in Esher against England in the Women's Six Nations opener and scored her first points, a conversion, against Sweden in the eleven-try FIRA victory in Madrid in April 2013.

In 2017, she played in the match that saw Scotland's Women's team triumph for the first time in seven years in a game against Wales, which saw them secure a 15-14 victory. Her role was described by the Women's Six Nations as "pivotal" to the revival of Scotland's Women's team, as she kicked the match-winning penalty in the game's closing minutes.

She has played scrum half for most of her career. Since September 2019, she plays stand-off.

She attributes some of her progress in Scottish Women's rugby to the influence of coach Shade Munro, who began coaching the team in 2016.

She earned her 40th cap during a 2019 tour to South Africa.

The 2021 Women's Six Nations marks the ninth successive year that Law has been part of Scotland’s Six Nations squad, although the team's match against Italy was her first game of any kind for 432 days due to COVID restrictions. Scotland coach Bryan Easson brought her in at stand-off for the Women’s Six Nations match against Italy, comparing her strategic approach to a chess player. He was quoted in The Scotsman discussing Law's approach, "She moves the pawns around the pitch well and what I mean is that she is a 10 in the women’s game who can think two or three phases ahead rather than phase by phase."

Personal life
Sarah Megan Law attended Penicuik High School, where she was head girl. She studied Applied Mathematics at Edinburgh University, before undertaking a part-time Masters in Operational Research with Data Science.

Her father played scrum half at their local club in Penicuik, which is where she picked up the game. Her younger sister Rachel also played for Scotland U20 and has been involved in the extended Scotland squad for a number of years.

Outside of her rugby career, Law worked as a Data Analyst at the University of Edinburgh and is now working as an Operational Research Analyst.