Rickard played her first internat5ional match in 1993 against England. She was nominated for the BBC Wales Sports Personality for the year 2009. In 2016, she played a key role in securing the first Masters Touch Tournament in Gif, Paris. She was educated at St Joseph's College, Ipswich. In 1992, she graduated from Aberystwyth University with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology and with a PhD in marine biology in 1996. She is presently the head of biology at Woodbridge School in Suffolk.
