Under the Posts – Women’s Rugby News for Aug 16-22

Welcome to the top women’s rugby news for Aug 16-22! We start with South Africa defeating Kenya 29-22 taking the series 2-0, Scion won the Emil Signes Cup at the USA Rugby National Club 7s and England, USA, Canada, France and New Zealand announced fall tests. If these matches happen, it would be many of the sides first matches since the pandemic began.

In more XVs news, the Bunnings Dr Farah Palmer Cup has cancelled matches due to worsening COVID conditions in New Zealand and Ireland’s Vodafone Interprovincial Championship are set to begin August 28 with all matches televised locally!

In 7s news, Rugby Americas North announced the 2022 RAN Super Sevens from February 11–13 in Mexico City, Scrum Queens interviewed David Courteix, France’s head coach about their silver medal at Tokyo, World Rugby shared how Fiji battled to the bronze, and Premier Rugby Sevens announced locations and crowd sourced team names.

We wrap up the week with 17 features and 6 media.

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tl;dr: Under the Posts – Women’s Rugby News for Aug 16-22 sees South Africa completing a double win over Kenya, Scion won the USA Rugby National Club 7s and England, USA, Canada, France and New Zealand announce fall tests.

Video Summary

Top Women’s Rugby News

XVs

International

• South Africa defeated Kenya 29-22 and secured  a 2-0 win in the series
• A slew of Fall Tests were announced while New Zealand canceled their two O’Reilly Cup Tests against the Wallaroos due to worsening COVID conditions:
  • Weekend of October 30 TBC – Black Ferns v England
  • November 1 – USA v Canada
  • November 5 – USA v Canada
  • November 6 – France v South Africa
  • Weekend of November 6 TBC – Black Ferns v England
  • November 13 – Black Ferns v France and England v Canada
  • November 20 – Black Ferns v France
  • November 21 – Wales v Canada and England v USA

Domestic

• Canterbury continues to lead the Premiership in the Dr Farah Palmer Cup and Manawatu is also on top in the Championship
  • Play was canceled this week due to New Zealand re-entering lockdown due to COVID
• Vodafone Interprovincial Championships will begin August 28 and all matches will be televised

7s

• Scrum Queens interviewed David Courteix, Frances 7s head coach about their preparation for the Olympics and their silver medal at Tokyo
• World Rugby features Fiji and their quest for a medal
• Scion wins the Emil Signes Cup at USA Rugby National Club 7s
• Premier Rugby Sevens announces team names and logos
• Rugby Americas North (RAN) announced the 2022 RAN Super Sevens from February 11–13 in Mexico City

Women’s Rugby Features

• Katie Sadleir, General Manager of Women’s Rugby, will leave World Rugby to join the Commonwealth Games Federation as Chief Executive Officer
• South Africa’s Lusanda Dumke shares how the close call against Kenya was just that
• USA’s Naya Tapper is featured by her alma mater, the University of North Carolina
• Rugby Africa announced an online sports management training for their members
• Fiji’s Kuini Vuli is passing on her knowledge to the next generation of officials
• Zimbabwe’s Lindiwe Munerenyu dreams about qualifying for a major international tournament and to grow women’s participation
• France begins their preparation for the 2021 Rugby World Cup with a camp in Marcoussis
• New Zealand’s Portia Woodman still can’t believe she’s won a Gold medal
• Wales’ Rebecca Rowe has joined Antarctic Fire Angels along with four other firefighters from South Wales Fire and Rescue and London Fire Brigade to ski coast-to-coast across Antarctica in November 2023
• New Zealand’s Michaela Blyde describes the “relief” of scaling Olympic summit
• Canada’s Jackie Tittley discusses Canada’s Women’s Rugby Leadership Scholarship program
• England’s Shaunagh Brown has called on the Welsh Rugby Union and other Six Nations participants to “pull their socks up” when it comes to funding their women’s teams
• Ireland’s Adam Griggs shares the environment around their recent training camps
• New Zealand’s Les Elder tells of her transition from mom back to Black Fern
• South Africa’s Aimee Barrett-Theron is featured by Ruck UK in their “Get to Know the Ref” piece

Women’s Rugby Media

• USA Rugby interviewed Scion’s Jade McGrath about their undefeated run to the Cup at USA Rugby National Club 7s
• South Africa’s Nolusindiso Booi wishes everyone a happy Women’s Month
• Back the Girls pod is out with their first episode on all things Wales
• Ugo Monye talks with Great Britain’s Abbie Brown about her time in Tokyo
• Women’s Rugby Show talks with New Zealand’s Michaela Blyde about getting Gold as well as another episode where they reveal an uncapped Roses XVs side
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