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In June 2021, Apps was named to Canada's 2020 Olympic team as an alternate. [2] [3] In September 2021, following the Olympics, she was named Captain of the Canada Women's Sevens national rugby team. [4] Apps competed for Canada at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town. [5] [6] They placed sixth overall after losing to Fiji in the fifth ...
The USA Women's National Team XVs represents the United States in women's international rugby union.The team was officially formed in 1987 and is nicknamed the Eagles. An international powerhouse during the 1990s— the Eagles won the inaugural 1991 Women's World Cup and finished second in the two following World Cups in 1994 and 1998.
No U.S. rugby team, women or men, has even made it this close to a medal since the men's team won gold in Paris in 1924. And women's rugby only made its Olympic debut in Rio in 2016, where the U.S ...
Women's rugby union is a full contact team sport based on running with the ball in hand. The same laws are used in men's rugby union with the same sized pitch and same equipment. Women's rugby has become popular recently. These days, women's rugby is gaining a higher profile thanks to international tournaments' exposure and financial investment.
A dramatic win over Australia in the bronze-medal match gave the U.S. women's rugby sevens its first medal and a boost ahead of the 2028 Olympics in L.A.
WXV is an annual women's rugby union competition between national teams. Launched in 2023, [1] the competition consists of three tiers (WXV 1, WXV 2, and WXV 3), each comprising six teams divided into two pools in a split pool format, where teams only face teams from the other pool.
The 2024 Pacific Four Series is the fourth edition of the Pacific Four Series, an international women's rugby union tournament that serves as one of the principal qualification routes for the top two tiers of the 2024 WXV and the 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup.
Julia Margaret Schell (born 13 July 1996) is a Canadian rugby union player. She competed for Canada at the delayed 2021 Rugby World Cup . She primarily plays fly-half but can also play at fullback .