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Kabeya signs new contract with Lightning

Loughborough Lightning are pleased to announce that Rugby World Cup winner, Sadia Kabeya, has signed a new contract to remain with the club. The 24-year-old back row has made 64 appearances for the African Violets over five seasons, and scored her seventh try in ten games so far in the 2025/26 campaign on Sunday against

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U20 Women name squad for opposed training vs Canada

Head coach LJ Lewis and assistant coach Sarah McKenna have selected their 30-player squad for this week’s England U21 Women’s development camp at Bisham Abbey. Commencing today, the three-day training black in Berkshire sees Lewis’ side host Canada U21 Women for a behind-closed-doors, opposed training session in preparation for the upcoming Six Nations Women’s U21

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Lioness Millie Bright Wants Man Utd Move After Decade at Chelsea

Millie Bright wants to return north when her contract at Chelsea expires this summer, with Manchester United the defender’s preferred destination, SportsBoom can exclusively reveal. SportsBoom understands the 32-year-old has set her sights on a switch to Marc Skinner’s side after deciding to base herself closer to her hometown of Killamarsh, Derbyshire, during the autumn

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England to kick-off new WXV Series with 3 games on home soil

John Mitchell’s World Champions will host Rugby World Cup 2029 hosts Australia, Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025  finalists Canada and six-time World Cup winners New Zealand in three regions across England. As announced during Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025, the WXV Global Series features 18 of the world’s best national teams, with the top 12 teams – Australia, Canada, England, France, Italy, Ireland, Japan, New

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Hewett, Reid, Shuker and Lapthorne eye Cajun Classic WT1000 Premier Tier

Britain’s Alfie Hewett, Gordon Reid, Lucy Shuker and Andy Lapthorne will contest each of Saturday’s men’s, women’s and quad doubles finals at the Cajun Classic, the latest Premier Tier WT1000 event on the 2026 UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour, in Louisiana. Top seeds Hewett and Reid beat De la Puente and Frenchman Stephane Houdet in Friday’s

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HSBC SVNS 2 touches down in Montevideo

Twelve teams head to Estadio Charrua with qualification for the season-ending three-tournament HSBC SVNS World Championship on the line. The HSBC SVNS 2 Series swings back into action this weekend in the Uruguayan capital Montevideo for the first of two crucial back-to-back weekends in South America to decide which sides will head to the HSBC

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Lightning name unchanged team to take on Gloucester-Hartpury

All six of Loughborough Lightning’s call-ups to the Red Roses’ 2026 Guinness Women’s Six Nations squad start in this weekend’s visit of Gloucester-Hartpury to cinch Stadium at Franklin’s Gardens. Daisy Hibbert-Jones, Lilli Ives Campion, Haineala Lutui and Sadia Kabeya are in Lightning’s forward pack for Sunday’s game while Helena Rowand and Bo Westcobe-Evans are in

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England Guinness Women’s 2026 Six Nations squad

Red Roses head coach John Mitchell has named a 38-player squad for the 2026 Guinness Women’s Six Nations. Forwards (22) Christiana Balogun (Bristol Bears, uncapped) Sarah Bern (Bristol Bears, 79 caps) Hannah Botterman (Bristol Bears, 62 caps) Abi Burton (Trailfinders Women, 4 caps) May Campbell (Saracens, 5 caps) Mackenzie Carson (Gloucester-Hartpury, 23 caps) Kelsey Clifford

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