Welcome to the top women’s rugby news in under 60 seconds for
May 2-8. We learned who won the TikTok Six Nations Player of the Championship award, the Langford 7s dream team was named and the pools for Toulouse 7s have been revealed.
In XVs news, Australia played Fiji early in the week, taking home a close win but lost to Japan in their second match while USA, Spain, Wales, and Canada all announced Rugby World Cup warmup matches in the coming weeks
In domestic XVs news, the Allianz Premier semi-finals are coming into shape, DHL Western is still leading South Africa’s Premier Division but are chased by Border Ladies and Blue Bulls, we know the quarterfinals for French’s Elite 1, Berkeley and New York continue to lead USA’s WPL and we recap USA’s Club Super Regionals.
We close out the week with 10 features and 6 media.
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tl;dr: Women’s Rugby in 60 secs for May 2-8 saw the 2022 TikTok Six Nations Player of the Championship named as well as the Langford 7s Dream Team and the pools for Toulouse 7s.
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@yscrugby Your #wrugby News in under 60 seconds for May 2-8 saw the 2022 TikTok Six Nations Player of the Championship named as well as the Langford 7s Dream Team and the pools for Toulouse 7s. Watch our video & read the entire update using the link in our bio! #womensrugby #wrugby rugbyunion@France Rugby
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First up is a change in the World Rugby Rankings, England takes the coveted top spot but are chased by New Zealand, Canada and France. France’s Laure Sansus is the TikTok Player of the Championship, well deserved!
Second, we learned the members of the Langford 7s Dream Team with Nathan, Blyde, Murphy Crowe, Woodman, Caslick, Nathan-Wong and Scurfield. We also learned the pools for Toulouse which will see Australia, USA, Fiji, South Africa in Pool A, New Zealand, Canada, Spain, Scotland in B and Ireland, France, Brazil and England in C.
XVs
International
- Australia defeated Fiji 26-19 on Thursday
- Japan then defeated Australia 12-10 on Monday
- USA announced their 42 player pool for Rugby World Cup, traveling roster for the Pacific Four Series should come out next week
- Spain announced a tour to South Africa from August 7-20 and Scotland from September 8-12
- Wales announced a match with Canada as well as the addition of a kicking coach to their staff
- Canada will play Italy on July 24 and Wales on August 27
Domestic
- Saracens, Exeter, Harlequins and Bristol are more than likely through to the SFs in Allianz Premier 15s
- DHL Western is still leading South Africa Premier Division along with Border Ladies and Blue Bulls
- We know the quarterfinals for French’s Elite 1
- Stade Toulousain Rugby v Lyon
- Stade Bordeaux v FC Grenoble Amazones
- ASM Romagnat v Montpellier
- Blagnac v AC Bobigny 93
- USA
- WPL – Berkeley and New York continue to lead in with Life West and Colorado on their heels
- D1 – Colorado Gray Wolves will face off against Tempe in the West while NOVA sees Chicago Lions in the East
- D2 – Palmer College sees Providence in the West while Knoxville faces Berkeley in the East
Women’s Rugby Features
- Wales has launched a review into the female community game to deal with the considerable growth in this area of the game and to ensure structures and competition frameworks are suitably robust to continue and sustain this expansion
- How record-breaking attendances have begun a new era for women’s sport by Nancy Gillen of Give Me Sport
- Leinster’s Tania Rosser shares her life in the game and future plans and hopes in her new role as head coach
- Dartmouth’s Idia Ihensekhien Wins 2021-22 MA Sorensen Award
- Wasps’ Mica Evans spoke with Nursing Times about her role within community child and adolescent mental health services
- Wales’ Jasmine Joyce wrote her final BBC TikTok Six Nations column where she revelled in their best finish in 13 years
- Gary Heatly writes for GH Media that Scotland has little time before the Rugby World Cup and what it’s going to take
- The United States Rugby World Cup Bid Committee announced a proposed framework for ensuring that hosting the Men’s and Women’s Rugby World Cup tournaments in 2031 and 2033 would create sustainable long-term growth of the sport in the US
- World Rugby recounts the story of the first women’s Rugby World Cup trophy, which was thought to be lost before being discovered in an attic last year
Women’s Rugby Media
- England’s Emily Scarratt stopped by Rugby Union Weekly to talk about another Six Nations title and her gold cap
- Watch the highlights of Australia and Japans match
- Ireland’s Nora Stapleton, Fiona Hayes and Alison Miller recalled the last-minute defensive tweaks that saw then beat France en route to the 2013 Grand Slam
- 40 years ago, in the Dutch city of Utrecht, the very first Women’s Rugby International took place between the Netherlands & France; Happiness is Egg Shaped talked with captains Liza Groenendijk & Judith Machado
- Nick & Mo were live one more time to relive the last round of the TikTok Six Nations
- Women’s Rugby Pod was joined by special guests Ali Donnelly and Sara Orchard on the pod this week to talk Scrum Queens, Six Nations Team of the Tournament and World Rugby news
📈 There's a new name in the top ten and 𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙮 of movement in the World Rugby Women's Rankings powered by @Capgemini pic.twitter.com/l6AWKvu27T
— World Rugby (@WorldRugby) May 3, 2022
🌟 SANSUS BRILLE 🌟
— TikTok Women's Six Nations (@Womens6Nations) May 10, 2022
Laure Sansus, @FranceRugby's scrum-half sensation, is crowned #TikTokW6N Player of the Championship!
She scored the most tries and made the most assists in 2022. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵. 𝘈. 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳. pic.twitter.com/oB1ngajSEl
There's no team like the #HSBCDreamTeam
— World Rugby Sevens (@WorldRugby7s) May 4, 2022
3️⃣ x @BlackFerns 🇳🇿
2️⃣ x @Aussie7s 🇦🇺
1️⃣ x @RugbyCanada 🇨🇦
1️⃣ x @IrishRugby ☘️@HSBC_Sport | #HSBC7s pic.twitter.com/tlE9J5Ahl8
🇫🇷 #France7s is set up 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 nicely
— World Rugby Sevens (@WorldRugby7s) May 3, 2022
📆 20-22 May #HSBC7s pic.twitter.com/GNaFXOCEIq
XVs
International
🎉 Can't think of a better way to start the #RoadToNewZealand
— Wallaroos (@WallaroosRugby) May 6, 2022
🇦🇺 36 - 19 🇫🇯
📺 @stansportau
Live Blog: https://t.co/Fw7BF7iT16#Wallaroos #OurJourney #Buildcorp #RoadToNewZealand pic.twitter.com/RAcloJ4cCR
Well done, Sakura Fifteen! 🌸
— Japan Rugby (@JRFURugby) May 10, 2022
The team took on hosts Australia in their third and final clash of their spring 2022 tour.
Three matches, three wins. #RWC2021, watch out! 😉 pic.twitter.com/bv4mjq0HIQ
NEWS | Head Coach Rob Cain has named 42 players to the Women's Eagles player pool for the upcoming @rugbyworldcup
— USA Rugby (@USARugby) May 2, 2022
#FERugby | 🚨Las #LeonasXV jugarán en Sudáfrica en agosto y en Escocia en septiembre. #VamosLeonas@deportegob @iberdrola @JomaSport @renfe 🚆https://t.co/D14ZIflJCX
— España Rugby (@ferugby) May 5, 2022
#WalesWomen set to test themselves against @RugbyCanada in Halifax as part of pre-world cup training camp.
— Welsh Rugby Union 🏉 (@WelshRugbyUnion) May 5, 2022
FULL STORY → https://t.co/Nl2snYk9Zz#HerStory pic.twitter.com/4Gl5X9BJVY
🏴 Wales Women to bring in new coach to solve biggest problem of the Six Nations
— Katie Sands (@KESands) May 3, 2022
✅ Lleucu George 'definitely' part of Wales plans moving forward https://t.co/FCcn6gUVnG
Rugby from coast to coast in Canada 🏉
— Rugby Canada (@RugbyCanada) May 5, 2022
Rugby Canada is delighted to announce a four-match summer schedule for its Senior Women’s and Men’s 15s sides, with fixtures planned in Halifax, Ottawa and Langford.
Read more 👉 https://t.co/mJBOG4RiaG#RugbyCA pic.twitter.com/7I0cvLZgeG
XVs
Domestic
https://twitter.com/Premier15s/status/1524026472003952642
I've had the abacus out this morning for the upcoming last league round of matches in the @Premier15s. 🤯@SaracensWomen have a home semi on Sun 22nd May. @exechiefswomen, @HarlequinsWomen and @BristolBearsW are the other three in the semis but still plenty to play for. pic.twitter.com/LLOJm8u8xN
— Nick Heath (@nickheathsport) May 9, 2022
Border Ladies, Boland Dames in strong Premier Division showing. How did your team do?
— Springbok Women (@WomenBoks) May 8, 2022
Summary here: https://t.co/iiv5A4ejnh#WomPrem pic.twitter.com/jMAB5uwFvg
France's Elite 1 league reaches the quarter-final playoffs on Sunday after a tight final round of pool games:
— Scrumqueens - Women’s Rugby (@ScrumQueens) May 10, 2022
Stade Toulousain Rugby v Lyon
Stade Bordeaux v FC Grenoble Amazones
ASM Romagnat v Montpellier
Blagnac v AC Bobigny 93https://t.co/eA5hgVT6dU pic.twitter.com/UNeSFdWmxe
Week 5 complete as @NewYorkRugby win a midseason marquee match up.
— USA Rugby (@USARugby) May 9, 2022
✍️: @TheRugbyBD
📸: Lisa Li
USA Club DI & DII National Semifinals https://t.co/zinqYLJosM pic.twitter.com/2GOThs5q4p
— YSCRugby - Women's Rugby 🏉🏳️⚧️✊ (@yscrugby) May 10, 2022
"The WRU has seen an increase of more than 40% in its regular female playing base since the pandemic closed the 2019-20 season."https://t.co/KJ6Di9cj2c
— Scrumqueens - Women’s Rugby (@ScrumQueens) May 2, 2022
🔦 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: A new era for women’s sport has begun
— GiveMeSportW (@GiveMeSportW) May 4, 2022
🏟 179,000 fans for the @UWCL semi-finals
🥊 Women’s boxing match headlines MSG
🏉 Record-breaking crowds at the @Womens6Nations
It’s now impossible to say no one cares about women’s sport 💁♀️
🗣 | “I think this will be a huge development year. I’d like to think that there is a two-year and four-year plan, and see the players progressing on."
— Leinster Rugby (@leinsterrugby) May 5, 2022
Read our interview with #LeinsterRugby women's head coach, @tarnross 👇
📰 | https://t.co/Me90xQLZUG#FromTheGroundUp pic.twitter.com/aSnenIR6Pg
Congratulations to Idia Ihensekhien of @DartmouthWRugby for being named the winner of the 2021-22 MA Sorensen Award! https://t.co/yOR5CQTtfo
— Dartmouth Athletics (@dartmouthsports) May 6, 2022
England extend lead at top of World Rugby Women’s rankings powered by Capgemini https://t.co/LrO8JenVUB pic.twitter.com/2ii4N4Qq3k
— YSCRugby - Women's Rugby 🏉🏳️⚧️✊ (@yscrugby) May 3, 2022
Jasmine Joyce reflects on Wales' best finish in the Six Nations in 13 years, the overall success of the tournament and being fined in Kangaroo court!
— BBC Sport Wales (@BBCSportWales) May 5, 2022
Read more in her final column ⤵️
‘I love working with young people, they keep me on my toes’https://t.co/gpUXhlXkm9 pic.twitter.com/UCnm6CnmSN
— Nursing Times (@NursingTimes) May 6, 2022
It took five years and a day to get to the World Cup, now the next five months and a week are very important for Scottish women’s rugby - some thoughts on @Scotlandteam and the lead up to the @rugbyworldcup opener V Wales on October 9...
— Gary Heatly (@G_HMedia) May 3, 2022
✍️ https://t.co/oWxWXzJ26S pic.twitter.com/wLPEl0FkmV
This isn’t just about filling stadiums at @rugbyworldcup matches, it’s about filling rugby fields in rural towns and inner cities across the United States.
— USA Rugby World Cup Bid (@USRugbyWC) May 4, 2022
The proposed legacy framework announced today is just the first step.
MORE 🔽https://t.co/R5u7Sg6z3w
The special trophy that sparked an argument and went missing for years - before turning up in an attic!
— Rugby World Cup (@rugbyworldcup) May 6, 2022
The original women's Rugby World Cup trophy certainly has a story to tell...
The Record Breakers pod is out.
— Sara Orchard (@Sara_Orchard) May 3, 2022
Dedication from @ChrisAshton1 @dannycare and @EmilyScarratt with @ugomonye #RugbyUnionWeekly 👇 https://t.co/x0ynWJmHCJ
🏉 @wallaroosrugby were pushed all the way in their #RWC2017 clash with Japan!
— Rugby World Cup (@rugbyworldcup) May 9, 2022
The Australians are set to face @JRFURugby on Tuesday as both sides continue their preparations for #RWC2021, playing in 2022 pic.twitter.com/EOgIGIaSJv
🎉POD OUT NOW🎉
— Happiness is Egg Shaped (@happyeggshaped) May 2, 2022
40 years ago, in Utrecht, the 1st Women's International between the @RugbyNLD & @FranceRugby was played.
I ❤️ speaking to the captains of both teams! Liza Groenendijk & Judith Machado.
Happiness is Egg Shapedhttps://t.co/63msanKtVYhttps://t.co/CQZ6ryEO8h pic.twitter.com/1Ai9xJQ3xF
'I was told to be a speed ramp!' | 🏉@NoraStapleton, @fihayes27 & Alison Miller recalled the last-minute defensive tweaks that saw then beat France en route to the 2013 Grand Slam | ☘️@VodafoneIreland | #TeamOfUs
— Off The Ball (@offtheball) May 6, 2022
Full video ➡️ https://t.co/neB47Lrg6I pic.twitter.com/QafBfDdFw8
One last time for 2022.... The Nick & Mo show is LIVE! Discussing all things from Super Saturday in the #TikTokW6N https://t.co/KMvl6gdqZQ
— TikTok Women's Six Nations (@Womens6Nations) May 2, 2022
We are back with @JohnnieHammond and @RachaelBurf12 as they are joined by special guests @AliDonnelly and @Sara_Orchard on the Pod this week!
— Women’s Rugby Pod (@podwomensrugby) May 5, 2022
👑 Scrum Queens
🏆 Six Nations Team of the Tournament
📰 World Rugby News
🎧 https://t.co/GpcyZynol6#WRP #WomensRugby pic.twitter.com/iK6MOPSWWJ