Lenny Woodard was born in , Gwent, Wales. He went to Greenlawn Junior school where he first played rugby. He received player of the year and was top scorer scoring a hatrick in county schools cup final at Rodney Parade. He also represented Pontypool Schools in the DC Thomas Cup final at Bridgend. He represented Gwent schools as well. He attended West Mon comprehensive school and was captain of his very successful year team and was captain of the 1st XV when they beat Millfield School. He left school with 7 A’s and 2 B’s from his GCSE’s and attended Pontypool College gaining all A’s in his A Level grades. He went on to study Human Movement studies at UWIC and went back in 2003 to gain a PGCE in Secondary Education. He is also a WRU Level 3 coach
International honours
Lenny Woodard represented Wales during the 1998 tour of Zimbabwe and South Africa in non-Test matches, and won caps for Wales while at Pontypridd RFC, and Bridgend Blue Bulls 1999…2005 3-caps + 2-caps 3-tries 12-points. He scored a hatrick of tries for Wales v Russia in 2003. Lenny also played international touch rugby for Wales in the European Cup, scoring the winning try v Scotland. Lenny also gained international honours in hockey for Wales at U15, U16 and U18 level. Lenny represented Wales and went onto represent Great Britain Students in rugby league. He played for Swinton Lions and Hull Sharks in the late 1990's and Celtic Crusaders in 2006 season.
Career records
On Friday 2 May 2003, Lenny Woodard scored a club record 7-tries for Pontypool in a 90–3 victory over Treorchy RFC. He scored three more tries against Aberavon RFC in the following game to reach a season tally of 44 tries and earned the accolade of having Pontypool's best try aggregate since World War I, surpassing the 39-tries scored by David Bishop in the 1983–84 season, but less than the 55-tries scored by wing Tom Robbins in the 1913–14 season. In October 2009, Woodard scored two tries for Newbridge RFC in the 37–31 league win at Rumney RFC to take him to 150 career tries. He is the highest try scorer in Welsh league history, amassing 186 league tries. He also scored 16 tries in England. This combined effort saw over 200 league tries and he was also a prolific scorer in cup rugby.
