Sisters Maria and Helen Nielson-Scott are throwing love out in the boat as they compete against each other in the world’s oldest rowing rivalry. The sisters make history on Easter Saturday by being the first to row in different boats in the Oxford versus Cambridge race on the Thames. It will be the first time
England coach John Mitchell has put his hand up to be the first ever coach of the Women’s Lions. Mitchell is about to lead his first 6 nations campaign with our Red Roses and was an All Black player. About the maiden Lions in New Zealand he told me,”I’m definitely interested, especially as the first
As England prepare to play Scotland, we can reveal the ‘Voice of Rugby’, Bill McLaren, will have a new trophy played for in his memory. It is the first new competition for girls* and boys linked to Bill. The broadcasting legend would no doubt have been delighted. Bill McLaren died in January 2010, but now
England world cup finalist Shaunagh Brown has kicked retirement as a player into touch because she is excited by the ‘new regime’ at the top of the women’s game. Source: HarlequinsBrown, 33, initially said the world cup final against New Zealand was her last game. But, after a coaching role in the Cayman Islands, she
Beth Mead is told ‘if I can do it, so can you’ by England Grand Slam heroine Abby Dow. Lioness star Mead is encouraged by Dow, who broke her leg but fought back to be at the forefront of the Red Roses’ Grand Slam success. England winger Dow has words of comfort for the Lioness’s
World cup finalist Alex Matthews says the Women’s Six Nations is a chance to lift ‘English rugby gloom’. As it kicks off, the women’s tournament ‘will be a raising of spirits after our men’s team flopped’ says flanker Matthews. ‘I’ve moved on from the WC, moving to Gloucester helped and all our chat in the
ENGLAND’s world cup final team has been shredded by retirements, injury and pregnancy as Mo Hunt is the big name recall for the 6 Nations. In all, eight members of the final squad in the WC are now missing. Emily Scarratt is the biggest loss through injury and Abbie Ward and Vicki Cornborough are pregnant.
England’s World Cup Final losers are inspiring record numbers of fans for their new season as a consolation for the heartbrake of missing out on becoming world champions. Quins say ‘around 50,000’ have already bought tickets for the women’s and mens double-header versus Bristol next month. Furthermore, ‘more than 20,000’ have already bought tickets for
Women’s cricket has scored an uplifting boost thanks to a ground-breaking auction and lunch at Lord’s. Tens of thousands raised will help expand this country’s network of coaching hubs, with particular benefit targeted at girls. The money will be used to grow the ‘free to access’ hubs from the 74 at present to 100, with
GREAT BRITAIN’S women’s rugby team are on a ‘smash and grab stay in Tokyo’. And a world cup winning star, England’s Alex Matthews, won’t even be staying long enough to celebrate her birthday which occurs mid-Games. Furthermore, GB women sevens they won’t take part in either the opening or closing ceremonies as they try to
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