Harlequins Head Coach Ross Chisholm has named his squad for Sunday’s PWR Up series opener against Trailfinders Women. Quins travel to Trailfinders Sports Club with 10 debutants, as they look to kick-off their season with a win against their London rivals. Jessie Spurrier starts at loosehead alongside Sweden’s Maja Meuller and Spanish captain Laura Delgado,
Bo Westcombe-Evans starts for Loughborough Lightning as they take on Sale Sharks in the PWR Up Series opener this weekend. The prolific tryscoring winger, who crossed the line 14 times in 20 appearances last term, has been away in the senior Red Roses squad for the past month but has been released back to her
The new fixture-list (www.thepwr.com/news/fixtures-announced-for-premiership-womens- rugby-season-2024-25) was heralded long and loud by PWR and the nine clubs. It presents a shortened and interrupted programme, which other tournaments made inevitable. The calendar apart, we have the same pattern as last year, remaining less than satisfactory through the absence of a tenth club. So it’s four matches per
Gloucester-Hartpury will open the defence of the Premiership Women’s Rugby (PWR) title at home to Leicester Tigers on a day when the two clubs will come together to also play for The Slater Cup. The game on Sunday 6 October will be live on TNT Sports with Gloucester-Hartpury and Leicester Tigers also playing for the
Loughborough Lightning have made Scottish winger Cieron Bell their sixth new summer signing ahead of the 2024/25 season. The 22-year-old joins from Edinburgh Rugby where she scored five tries in as many games during last season’s Celtic Challenge. Her finishing qualities have also been recognised by her country, achieving caps at both Under-18 and Under-20
Harlequins are delighted to confirm the signing of Welsh International and GB 7s Olympian Kayleigh Powell ahead of the 2024/25 PWR season. Powell joins Quins following a successful stint representing GB 7s on the World Sevens Series, including most recently at this week’s Paris Olympics. The versatile back has joined the Club on a full-time
Loughborough Lightning have secured Red Roses prospect Grace Clifford on a multi-year extended contract. The tighthead prop joined Lightning in 2022 from Harlequins, making a try-scoring debut against Wasps in September 2022. Having shone for England Under-20s, Clifford earned a Red Roses transitional contract in 2023 and has gone on to mark 19 Lightning appearances,
Loughborough Lightning have extended the contract of 62-times capped England international, Laura Keates. Keates was left without a club ahead of the 2023/24 season following the demise of Worcester Warriors and joined Lightning in March 2024, making her debut off the bench in the Allianz Cup victory over Sale Sharks in April. The 35-year-old marked
Ellen Scantlebury has extended her Loughborough Lightning contract after a breakthrough first season at the Club. The Somerset-born winger started life at Loughborough in the University’s BUCS Second XV before progressing into the first team. Scantlebury’s journey along the pathway saw her make a try-scoring Lightning debut against Gloucester-Hartpury in September 2023’s Allianz Cup game
Loughborough Lightning have completed the signing of soon-to-be Olympian Krissy Scurfield for the 2024/25 season. The speedy 21-year-old has been selected in Canada’s Olympics Rugby Sevens squad which will be competing for medals at Stade de France in the host city of Paris on 28/29/30 July. Canada finished fifth in the HSBC SVNS 2023/24 Series
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