England Women Sevens Head Coach Barry Maddocks has today (Tuesday) named his 12-woman squad to compete in the Rugby World Cup Sevens next week in Moscow (June 28-30).

IRB Sevens Player of the Year Michaela Staniford has been named as captain of a very strong squad that includes seven players who featured in the 2009 RWC Sevens when England won the Plate final.

Richmond’s Alice Richardson is one of the RWC survivors and she has been named as vice-captain whilst the players set to make their RWC Sevens debuts are Joanne Watmore, Marlie Packer, Natasha Hunt, Katy McLean and RPA Player of the Year Emily Scarratt.... more »

Over the past 2 weeks, UR7s has sat down with the top international coaches in the world to discuss the first ever Womens World Series season and preparations for the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Moscow next month. It has been a series of ups and downs for all of the nations with injuries, form, successes and failures. The supremos of all the teams look back on what has been an incredible season of Rugby 7s once more that started all those months ago in Australia and finished earlier this month in London in front of over one hundred thousand fans.

Having now sat down with Mens Coaches Ben Ryan, Mike Friday, Alex Magleby, Geraint John, Stevie Gemmell and Paul John it's now the turn of Australia Womens 7s supremo Chris Lane to chat about the challenges of what has been an up and down season for the Australians and now looking forward to a strong outing in Moscow with the inclusion of a number of girls that won the tournament 4 years ago.... more »