The queen of the Bordeaux lionesses, double champions of France, received the 2024 women's Oscar. A just reward for this Limougeau woman, hooker and committed caregiver.
The queen of the Bordeaux lionesses, double champions of France, received the 2024 women's Oscar. A just reward for this Limougeau woman, hooker and committed caregiver. “I am delighted with this seasonnoted Sochat on stage. It's easier to say when there's a title. It was a season of transition because there had been a change of staff but we wanted to try to show that Bordeaux is a stronghold of French women's Rugby. We succeeded. […] On a daily basis, it’s a huge investment. We play with a lot of heart in women's rugby but without a lot of resources. Media coverage will allow us to structure ourselves and improve our conditions of practice. It’s great to be part of this story.”
Agathe Sochat is what we could call a Stade Bordeaux executive. And, at 29 years old, his track record is already as long as an arm. Champion of France with Montpellier, her previous club, in 2017, 2018 and 2019 then, more recently in 2023 and 2024 with Stade Bordeaux, yes, you counted correctly, five major titles, just that! A CV that would make all the rugby players in France and Navarre pale. Arriving at the Stade Bordeaux in 2021 (after having played there from 2013 to 2016) from Montpellier, the Limougeaude by birth is a hooker of duty. She made combat a cardinal virtue, melee a sacred temple, commitment a priesthood. Of duty and corridors, capable of offering his mobility in the current game. Which makes it a hybrid profile between tradition and modernism, fundamentals and taste for the open sea. Appearing for the first time in the French team in 2016 against Italy, she now has 52 caps and still appears as the irremovable holder of the position surrounded by a rising generation of Tricolores. Selected by World Rugby in the “Women's Dream Team of the Year” in the No. 2 position in 2021, Agathe Sochat has also been one of the first 24 French players to have signed a federal contract since 2018.
Pioneer and on the front line
Commitment, we told you, certainly Agathe's is deeply rooted in body and mind. Trained as an occupational therapist, she gave her time and talent at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic to the Montpellier University Hospital where she was working at the time. At the time, Midi Olympique devoted an interview to him and its front page, in the middle of all his rugby players who gave their time to support the sick.
Agathe is a lioness but also a pioneer in terms of reconciling sports and personal lives. In March 2022, she became, with her wife Adèle, the mother of a little girl at the height of her sporting career. She thus demonstrates the possibility of reconciling her two lives simultaneously and shows the way to other rugby women but also more generally to other sportswomen.
In 2024, Agathe Sochat's season was crowned with a major title with Stade Bordeaux against the Romagnat club. The Bordelaises, already champions in 2023 against Blagnac, are today even stronger than the previous season and seem to be writing the first chapters of a saga. With the Bleues, now led by the duo David Ortiz and Gaëlle Mignot, the results are less brilliant than in the past. The last two defeats against Canada and New Zealand for a single victory against the United States in the new international women's competition, the WXV. Les Bleues finished in 5the and penultimate place just ahead of the United States, far, very far from the two major nations of England and New Zealand with whom the Blues were still fighting, until recently, almost on equal terms.
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