Women’s Rugby Receives Strategic Boost

SA Rugby has re-focused its approach to women’s rugby as a major strategic objective for the organisation, with the support of SA Rugby’s first High Performance Manager for Women’s Rugby, Lynne Cantwell. Photo: Springbok Women (Twitter)

Former Ireland captain, Lynne Cantwell, joins the Springbok Women’s team as SA Rugby’s first High Performance Manager for Women’s Rugby ahead of the World Cup in New Zealand.

World Cup Winner Rene Naylor Comes Full Circle

In 2019, Rene Naylor won a World Cup medal, over a decade after becoming the first woman physiotherapist of the men’s Springbok rugby team. She speaks to Celine Abrahams about the challenges of breaking new ground, leaving the job she loves to focus on motherhood, and coming back to achieve her greatest sporting high.

Wall-to-Wall Rugby as SARU Actions Targets

Springbok Women’s training squad gathers in camp, and will face an inter-provincial squad selected to face them in a warm-up match as the team’s preparations for the Paris World Cup in August gathers pace

Boks in Camp for 2014 World Cup Preparations

General Manager of High Performance Rassie Erasmus signals SARU’s stepped up investment in Women’s Rugby, as 40-strong Springboks hopefuls arrive at Cape Town camp to prepare for RWC France 2014 in August

Mandisa Confident of Uganda WC Qualifier Win

The Springboks take on Uganda at the Buffalo City Municipal Stadium in East London on Saturday (kickoff 15h00), where a win will qualify SA for their third IRB Women’s Rugby World Cup, in France in 2014

Heyns Gives World Cup 7s Squad Golden Boost

SARU pulling out all the stops as Olympic heroine Penny Heyns with world cup-hero and High Performance GM Rassie Erasmus give the Springbok Women’s Sevens Squad the best motivation to pull out all the stops ahead of the IRB Rugby World Cup Sevens in Moscow later in June

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