England girls put together to face France on Saturday 18 June at Warrington Halliwell Jones Stadium. Their Rugby World Cup marketing campaign towards Brazil will start at Headingley Stadium on Tuesday 1 November.
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Leeds Rhinos’ Courtney Winfield Hill (Picture by Ed Sykes/SWpix.com)
Courtney Winfield Hill and Caroline Cooley have been added to the England Girls’s squad as coach Craig Richards ramps up his choices amid preparations for this yr’s Rugby World Cup.
Winfield-Hill was an integral a part of the Leeds Rhinos that lifted the Betfred Girls’s Problem Cup and the Tremendous League in 2019, with the full-back being named Lady of Metal that season.
Winfield Hill, 35, is from Queensland and represented the state in cricket, together with as a member of the Huge Bash Brisbane Warmth, earlier than shifting to England in 2018, when she joined the Rhino workforce. She married England and Yorkshire cricketer Lauren Winfield in March 2020, and certified for England beneath the Worldwide Rugby League Eligibility Act.
Cooley turned the primary Betfred Girls’s Tremendous League South – launched in 2023 – to be chosen for the England squad after a formidable debut season with the Bedford Tigers.
The previous Arsenal and Chelsea girls’s goalkeeper additionally performed rugby union for Bletchley and represented Scotland 7 at worldwide degree earlier than shifting to Bedford.
Richards mentioned: “We’re delighted to have the ability to deliver Courtney to the Girls’s England group after a lot work behind the scenes to make sure that this will occur.
“Courtney has constantly established herself as one of many main gamers within the Betfred Girls’s League and has been pivotal to the success of Leeds Rhinos.
“It offers us one other nice possibility within the two halves as we put together and can create extra competitors for locations as we method the center of the worldwide season with France and the Rugby World Cup at residence this fall.”
Richards added of Cooley: “The inclusion of Caroline is a real success story of the Petfried SPL Girls’s League and exhibits some unimaginable expertise the competitors has already pushed ahead.
“We have seen Caroline on a number of events and I have been actually impressed together with her pace and agility. She’s an enormous operating risk and has the power and confidence to attain from wherever on the sphere whereas her body additionally makes her a handful within the general play for defenders.”
England girls put together to face France on Saturday 18 June at Halliwell Jones Stadium in Warrington for a mid-season worldwide duo in addition to England’s males’s match towards the United Nations All Stars squad.
They may start their World Cup rugby league marketing campaign towards Brazil at Headingley Stadium on Tuesday 1st November. They may face Canada at Wigan on Saturday 5 November earlier than the ultimate group stage match in Leeds towards Papua New Guinea on Wednesday 9 November.
England Girls’s Nationwide Efficiency Staff
- Daniel Anderson (Leeds Rhinos)
- Savannah Andrade (Knights of York)
- Caitlin Beaver (Leeds Rhinos)
- Keira Bennett (Leeds Rhinos)
- Leah Burke (St. Helens)
- Caroline Cooley (Bedford Tiger)
- Chantelle Kroll (St. Helens)
- Judy Cunningham (St. Helens)
- Holy Dodd (Knights of York)
- Kelsey Gentiles (Knights of York)
- Fran Goldthorpe (Leeds Rhinos)
- Rebecca Greenfield (Wigan Warriors)
- Amy Hardcastle (St. Helens)
- Shauna Howell (Huddersfield Giants)
- Amy Johnson (Leeds Rhinos)
- Tara Jones (St. Helens)
- Chloe Kerrigan (Leeds Rhinos)
- Emma Lumley (Leeds Rhinos)
- Vicki Molyneux (Wigan Warriors)
- Carrie Roberts (St. Helens)
- Georgia Roche (Leeds Rhinos)
- Emily Rodge (St. Helens)
- Tara Stanley (Knights of York)
- Beth Stott (St. Helens)
- Rachel Thompson (Wigan Warriors)
- Paige Travis (St. Helens)
- Vicki Whitfield (St. Helens)
- Naomi Williams (St. Helens)
- Georgia Wilson (Wigan Warriors)
- Courtney Winfield Hill (Leeds Rhinos)
- Olivia Wooden (Knights of York)
- Rachel Woese (St. Helens)
