Emerging from a troubled family background in Germany, Sevens rugby became the outlet for a rare athletic talent
A superstar on the Sevens circuit, a model, a Dancing with the Stars celebrity, Conroy’s life is like one dreamed up in a travel candy store. Every year his job takes in destinations in Hong Kong, Dubai, Cape Town, Sydney, Los Angeles and Vancouver. Like a Formula One oval ball circuit, Sevens is the fizz and pop end of rugby where the sun never fails to shine.
Scoring from a kick-off for Buccaneers, Conroy’s greatest natural resource, his pace, caught the eye of the coach, who invited him for a trial. He debuted for Ireland in 2016 at a tournament in Amsterdam. “I was thinking you know what, it’s a great opportunity. You know why not, get my name out there build up the profile,” says Conroy. “I just went with it, my gut instinct and to be honest, it was never what I thought it would be. It was such a massive learning for me. I was out of my comfort zone. It was a different kind of learning.
In the series his mother Jennie was also interviewed and it was there she detailed the “extremely abusive marriage” in which she had found herself, when she and her son were living in Germany, where Jordan was born. Ireland’s Greg O’Shea, Hugo Lennox, Jack Kelly and Jordan Conroy celebrate qualifying for Tokyo 2020 at the World Rugby Sevens Repechage in Monaco. Photograph: Manuel Blondeau/Inpho
“Having a whole year to play the World Series without having the word repechage in the back of your head, just being able to work on things, gel more as a team and then a month before the Olympic Games be able to shift the focus all to that one point. That would be better for us mentally and physically, which we didn’t have last time.”
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