{{short description|English-Welsh rugby union player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{infobox rugby biography | name = Ben Breeze | image = | image_size = | caption = | alt = | birth_name = Ben Breeze | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1974|4|8|df=y}} | birth_place = Exeter, Devon | death_date = | death_place = | height = {{convert|5|ft|11|in|m|abbr=on}} | weight = {{convert|13|st|0|lb|kg|abbr=on}} | school = | university = Loughborough University | relatives = | occupation = Chief Community Officer | ru_currentposition = Wing / Fullback | years1 = 1995–1999 | years2 = 1999–2003 | years3 = 2003–2006 | years4 = 2006–2010 | apps1 = 57 | apps2 = 77 | apps3 = 56 | apps4 = 40 | clubs1 = Bristol | clubs2 = Newport RFC | clubs3 = Newport Gwent Dragons | clubs4 = Exeter Chiefs | points1 = 60 | points2 = 140 | points3 = 50 | points4 = 75 | repyears1 = 2001 | repteam1 = Wales A | repcaps1 = | reppoints1 = | repsevensyears1 = | repsevensteam1 = England | repsevensyears2 = 2002–2003 | repsevensteam2 = Wales }}
'''Ben Breeze''' (born 8 April 1974 in Exeter) is an English born rugby union player who represented England U21, England Students and England 7's, as well as Wales A and Wales 7's. A winger or fullback, he played his club rugby for Bristol (1995–1999), Newport RFC (1999–2003), Newport Gwent Dragons (2003–2006) and Exeter Chiefs (2006–2010).
== Rugby career == On 25 March 2016 he coached and played for Rwanda at the GFI Rugby Tens in Hong Kong, technically making him a triple international.
Breeze now heads up Stephen Lansdown's "Bristol Sport Foundation", having reformed the Bristol Rugby Community Foundation in 1996, restructuring it as a charity in 2010.
In 2015, he was presented with a ten-year Special Achievement Award by Premiership Rugby and All Party Parliamentary Group at the Houses of Parliament.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bristolbearsrugby.com/news/foundation-ceo-to-be-presented-with-special-achievement-award/ |title=Foundation CEO to be presented with Special Achievement Award |work=Bristol Bears Website|date=17 June 2015 |accessdate=11 February 2021}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090216200221/http://newportgwentdragons.com/Personnel.aspx?pr=106322 Newport Gwent Dragons profile] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20210216200221/https://www.bristolsportfoundation.org/ Bristol Sport Foundation website]
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