On a terrific night for England Rugby, Head Coach Gary Street was named the High Performance Coach of the Year at the UK Coaching Awards, in Glasgow in the presence of Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, while his team were winning the The Sunday Times and Sky Sports Team of the Year Award at a glittering ceremony
This year’s winner of the Sunday Times and Sky Sports Sportswomen of the Year Award for Team of the Year (which was decided by public vote) is the World Cup winning English Women’s Rugby team. After disappointing final losses to New Zealand in 2006 and 2010, Katy McLean’s team beat Canada by 21-9 to win the 2014
The RFU 2014 Annual Report & Accounts published on November 14th shows investment in rugby at all levels growing for the fourth consecutive year. The total investment into rugby was £75.3m, up 13% on 2012/13 with a substantial proportion of this growth focused on the RFU’s commitment to building a lasting Rugby World Cup legacy across the
The Rugby Football Union is delighted to announce Helen Weir CBE will be joining its Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director. Helen is an exceptional businesswoman who combines a high calibre career spanning multiple sectors with a passion for rugby. Currently the Group Finance Director at John Lewis Partnership, Helen was previously Group Executive Director
The fourth Anti-Doping Annual Report for rugby in England has been published on behalf of the Anti-Doping Advisory Group. The group is responsible for advising on anti-doping policy for rugby in this country and is made up of key stakeholders, including: the RFU, Premiership Rugby, the Rugby Players’ Association and UK Anti-Doping. The testing programme
The Awards season is in full swing and the nominees have now been announced for the 2014 BT Sport Action Woman Award. This award, voted by the British public, comes at the end of another fantastic year for Women’s sport. It will be fascinating to see who will succeed last year’s winner, Downhill Mountain Biking
Rugby fans heading to Twickenham Stadium last weekend to watch the Barbarians take on Australia were the first to experience the benefits of the new LED floodlights. The new system by Musco Lighting is the latest improvement as part of the Rugby Football Union’s (RFU) long-term strategy to ensure the home of England Rugby is
THE Rugby Football Union (RFU) and Sky Sports have extended their partnership with a new five-year broadcast deal which will also see Sky Sports become a top level RFU partner, with a range of partnership rights for the first time. The agreement strengthens one of the longest running broadcast partnerships in sport, taking it until
England Women will play Italy, Scotland and France at home this season in the Six Nations Championship with Twickenham Stadium, the Twickenham Stoop and The Northern Echo Arena in Darlington hosting the 2014 Rugby World Cup champions. England, who finished second in the 2014 Six Nations, will play their first international XVs game since becoming
Having just published a story on the cricket pages about the England cricketers being nominated for Team of the Year, in the 2014 Sunday Times and Sky Sports Sportswomen of the Year Awards, it would be remiss of me not to write about our World Cup winning Rugby Team also being nominated. After disappointing final losses to New
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