Women's Rugby

The mid-week matches get underway with a huge with for Ireland against the World Champions, the Black Ferns.

The Women's Rugby World Cup 2014 got underway yesterday, and it didn't disappoint, with the host nation France off to a roaring start against the Welsh.

Flanker Maggie 'The Machine' Alphonsi hopes to play a major role in England's bid for Women's Rugby World Cup glory.

Southland women's rugby player April Miller who was playing rugby in the Southland Presidents Men's Grade has been banned from playing because she is a woman. Scott Donaldson investigates.

Six Worcester Ladies Payers have been selected to represent England at the forthcoming Women’s World Cup, to held in France during August, and one, Sian Williams, will be playing for Wales - a remarkable achievement having battled with serious knee injury for over a year.

Head coach Gary Street hopes England's women rugby team can lift the nation's spirits again at their World Cup in France next month.

With the eyes of the sporting world firmly fixed on the football World Cup in Brazil, you could be forgiven for not realising that there is another major international tournament just around the corner – the Women’s Rugby World Cup.

Based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands Women’s 7s team have become the first of their kind to be awarded full professional status.

Rochelle Clark has set her sights on becoming England's most capped player as she closes in on Amy Garnett's record of a century of appearances.

The visitors arrived at Worcester with an impressive record of 13 wins from 13 and a points difference of 630 as league leaders, so the home knew that this would be a severe test of attrition, and it proved to be.

England Women put their Six Nations title ambitions back on track in Aberdeen with a dominant 11-try victory over Scotland in the second round.

Richmond won their 4th title in 5 seasons last night after a convincing victory in their rearranged match against Bristol at a very cold Newbury RFC.

After a delay of more than 2 hours due to travel problems, the 2 teams took the field ready for another display of the fast rugby they both favour.

With one round of matches left to play on 19th January, Saracens are sitting pretty at the top of the table. They lead the way on 57 points with Richmond 4 points behind, but that is not the full story.

With no score in the opening 10 minutes, it looked like there might be a repeat of the draw last season. However, Wasps opened the scoring with a well-worked try after a period of pressure on the Richmond line.

Our latest video review of the Heineken Kinsale Rugby Sevens Weekend of 2013 takes a look and a listen at the sights and sounds of the women's rugby on show.

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The annual Six Nations Tournament is here again! Last year, England ripped through the competition and easily defeated Ireland by 31 points in the Grand Slam Final.

We have been able to secure discounted hotel rates at the same hotel that the International Women are staying at, as well as discounted 3-day tickets to USA Sevens.

YSC received permission to publish this letter from Sue Parker, on behalf of the USA Rugby Women's Collegiate Strategic Committee.