Source: ICC

Excitement on the rise

Excitement on the rise as the ICC U19 Women’s T20 World Cup 2025 draws near The ICC U19 Women’s T20 World Cup returns for its second edition in January 2025 with the best young talent in the women’s game in action. Like the first edition which was held in South Africa in 2023, 16 teams

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Harlequins set new World Record at Big Game 16

Harlequins have announced that the Club’s Women’s team have broken the World Record for attendance at a Women’s club rugby match for a fourth consecutive year at Big Game, as a crowd of 18,055 were treated to a 42-17 Quins victory at Allianz Stadium. Using high resolution 360 imagery from the event and specialist software

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Source: Claire Jones / redhatphoto.com

Canada lock Holtkamp signs for Lightning

Loughborough Lightning have added more international quality to their squad after signing Canadian forward Courtney Holtkamp until the end of the 2024/25 Premiership Women’s Rugby season. The 25-year-old second row joins the African Violets for a third spell having made 18 appearances across the 2020/21 and 2021/22 campaigns. Holtkamp enjoyed a meteoric rise in rugby

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Subway League Cup Quarter Finals confirmed

The Women’s Professional Leagues can now confirm details for the four quarter final ties of the 2024/25 Subway Women’s League Cup. All four fixtures will take place on Wednesday 22 January 2025 and will be broadcast live on the Barclays WSL YouTube channel, with venues and kick-off times as follows: Chelsea v Durham – Kingsmeadow,

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Source: Loughborough Lightning

Lightning name unchanged team to face Sale Sharks

Loughborough Lightning have named an unchanged starting line-up for their final match of 2024, away at Sale Sharks this weekend. Head coach Nathan Smith has kept faith with the side that secured a try-scoring bonus point in defeat to Harlequins for Saturday’s Premiership Women’s Rugby Round 11 showdown at the CorpAcq Stadium (kick-off: 2pm). The

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Source: Dave Vokes

Hampshire confirm academy and emerging players for 2024-25

Hampshire announce a 13-player strong Academy for 2024-25 The Academy sees eight players join for the first time, with five players retained 14 new players join the Emerging Player Programme (EPP) with a total of 28 players involved Hampshire Women have announced a 13-player strong Academy for 2024-25. Fast bowler Caitlin Chissell, all-rounder Talitha Stanley,

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Source: World Rugby

World Rugby hosts Asian summit

25 delegates attended from 19 unions, while there were guests from Asia Rugby, ChildFund Rugby and the International Cricket Council. The event was the second of six regional summits being held as part of World Rugby’s global ‘Impact Beyond 2025’ programme which is accelerating women’s rugby beyond next year’s Women’s Rugby World Cup. The summit

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Source: PWR

PWR players to benefit from new partnership with Physique

Bristol Bears prop Simi Pam has today welcomed a new partnership between Premiership Women’s Rugby (PWR) and Physique Management Company (Physique) which will deliver a direct benefit to hundreds of our players for the next three years. Physique have worked with the PWR medical team to put together player recovery packs for players. They will also

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