Women’s Weekly Round up 8th May by Rebecca Bird On Sunday the first round of the Challenge Cup took place in the women’s league, Stanningley Ladies hosted Bradford Bulls and it was the travelling side who emerged with a 58-6 victory. Bradford’s Amy Hardcastle and Shona Hoyle both scored three tries each, Rhiannon Marshall and Stacey
The first round of the Challenge Cup will take place this Sunday, 8th May. Fixtures: Selby Warriors v Army RL Women Stanningley v Bradford Bulls Normanton v Thatto Heath-St Helens Rochdale Hornets v Oulton Raidettes Leigh Miners Rangers v Brighouse Rangers Featherstone Rovers – bye Lindley Swifts – bye Wigan St Patrick’s – bye
In a great step forward for women’s rugby, the Warriors have today announced that they have integrated Women’s Premiership side Worcester Ladies RFC into the Warriors operation. The Ladies team is to be renamed as the Worcester Valkyries and will become part of the Warriors organisation ahead of the 2016/17 Women’s Premiership campaign. The alliance will
Following the resignation of Rob Andrew from the position of Director of Professional Rugby it has been announced that USA Rugby CEO Nigel Melville will join the RFU this summer to take his place. Melville will be responsible for professional rugby in England for the RFU, with particular focus around managing relationship with Premiership Rugby, the
England Rugby has today launched 24/Sevens, an exciting new community sevens series that aims to grow rugby and increase participation among men and women in clubs through creating new and consistent playing opportunities for sevens players at grassroots level. For the first time, domestic sevens festivals will be affiliated by England Rugby and aligned under
The Women’s Premiership Player of the Year award will this year be made part of the annual Aviva Premiership Rugby Awards, which will take place on Wednesday 18 May at the Hilton, Park Lane, London. Premeirship Rugby – who are currently responsible for the men’s Premiership XVs and 7s competitions – confirmed that three players
World’s top players ready to showcase their talent on sport’s biggest stage World Rugby launches #AreYouReady social campaign to begin countdown Men’s and women’s HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series breaking records With 100 days to go until the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, World Rugby Chairman Bernard Lapasset believes the stage is set for very special
Round 4 of the Womens Rugby League 2016 Season – Featherstone Rovers hosted Leigh Miners Rangers. The home team showed they meant business in the latest league game as, only 2 minutes into the game, Jasmine Rowley scored after some fine inter-passing between Andy Dobson and Amy Smith. Shortly afterwards Featherstone were on the attack
In a replay of the Premiership final in January, Richmond Women and Saracens Women came face to face once again in the Senior Cup final. Both teams had points to prove and scores to settle: Richmond were determined to claim the cup title back after losing out to their London rivals in the semi finals
Womens Summer League Weekly Round up 24th April – By Rebecca Bird On Sunday Bradford Bulls Ladies welcomed Rochdale Hornets and the home side notched up an impressive 74-0 win. Jess Courtman grabbed a hatrick of tries for the winning side along with 9 goals, there were a further two tries each for Charlene Hennigan,
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