Lightning Women’s Rugby Programme - 21st January 2023

RHYS EDWARDS DIRECTOR OF RUGBY

Our partnership with Northampton Saints is going extremely well, reflected by the recent announcement of our successful Tender bid to be part of the Allianz Premier 15s 3.0 from September 2023. This was an extremely rigorous process, with several teams applying. The partnership has allowed us to play at the fantastic Cinch Stadium at Franklins Gardens, but everyone is excited to be back on campus and play on our great pitch.

This season has proved to be a challenging one with World Cup in the Autumn, the league beginning later and players on a staggered return. This has certainly impacted our performances, but we are now starting to get continuity in our training squad which has started to reflect our match performances.

It’s great to welcome DMP Sharks, who have been a ig part of the development of the women’s game over the years. They themselves have been through a challenging period and have decided not to continue in the AP15s. I have huge respect for them as a group and their ‘never say die’ attitude must be commended, certainly something many teams can learn from.

We are keen to correct many of the things we are disappointed with from last week’s fixture against league leaders Gloucester-Hartpury.

It was certainly out of character for us the way we played. We have had a great training week and are keen to hit the ground running this weekend.

Today sees us give Chloe Rollie her debut, having recently joined the club. It’s great to support Chloe on her return to play following the World Cup, and we are excited to see her talent in African Violet and Pink.

Good luck to all today and we hope you have a great day!

Rhys Edwards, Director of Rugby

Welcome back to Epinal Way, Loughborough University for the Round 8 Allianz Premier 15s fixture vs DMP Sharks.

DURHAM SHARKS

TODAY’S TEAMS

LOUGHBOROUGH LIGHTNING V

DMP DURHAM SHARKS

LEAH BARTLETT 1 1 SAM HERRICK BRYONY FIELD 2 2 ELIS MARTIN CHRISTINE BELISLE 3 3 CHRISTINE PRATT LILLI IVES CAMPION 4 4 TRUDY COWAN MORWENNA TALLING 5 5 TILLY CHURM SARA SVOBODA 6 6 LUCY THORPE SADIA KABEYA 7 7 RACHEL EHRECKE

REFEREE: PETER CAUNT

DAISY HIBBERT-JONES 8 8 JAZ HAZELL LUCY WEAVER 9 9 CHLOE BROOM HELEN NELSON 10 10 MEYA BIZER CARYS WILLIAMS 11 11 APRIL ISHIDA BULOU MATAITOGA 12 12 LINZI TAYLOR EMMA HARDY 13 13 KENNY THOMAS-ROBERTS

LAUREN BOLGER 14 14 DANI PHAN CHLOE ROLLIE 15 15 TESS FEURY KENDALL WAUDBY 16 16 KATHRYN TREDER

DETYSHA HARPER 17 17 ELLA BREWSTER ISLA CURPHEY 18 18 MEG GARDNER CATH O’DONNELL 19 19 JESS WIESHEU SALLY WILLIAMS 20 20 JAZ BRANKIN

JESS WEAVER 21 21 OLIVIA ORTIZ

GEORGINA TASKER 22 22 ELISSA JENNINGS FRAN GOLDTHORPE 23 23 KAT CRAINE

EMILY SCARRATT AND HELEN NELSON

MATCH REPORT

FULL TIME: LOUGHBOROUGH LIGHTNING 12-46 GLOUCESTERHARTPURY HOME TEAM (GLOUCESTERHARTPURY)

TRIES: Underwood 10, Sing 13, Hunt 30, Tuipulotu 39, Underwood 44, Lund 50, Hunt 56, Jones 68 CONVERSIONS: Sing 31, 50, 59 AWAY TEAM (LOUGHBOROUGH LIGHTNING)

TRIES: Field 27, Malcolm 37 CONVERSIONS: Nelson 28

LOUGHBOROUGH LIGHTNING: :Mataitoga, Bolger, Williams, Hardy, Westcombe-Evans, Nelson, Weaver, Bartlett, Field, Belisle, Wassell, O’Donnell, Malcolm, Kabeya, Hunter

REPLACEMENTS: Meuller, Trevarthen, Harper, Talling, Hibbert-Jones, Weaver, Svoboda, Tasker

GLOUCESTER-HARTPURY: Sing, Underwood, Jones, Heard, Lund, George, Hunt, Buggy, Powell, Delgado, Tuipulotu, Monaghan, Jones, Lewis, Aldcroft REPLACEMENTS: Jones, Muir, Hale, Else, Brock, Lillicrap, Blackburn, Bridger

Loughborough Lightning fell to a 46-12 defeat against a tough Gloucester-Hartpury side on Saturday.

A tight first half where tries were exchanged by both sides saw the Lightning go into the break only 10 points down, but four further Gloucester tries with no reply took the home side to a comfortable victory.

Gloucester started strong and were rewarded after 8 minutes when Rugman found herself out wide to score in the corner, and made it two just a few minutes later when Emma Sing broke down the left side and handed off to Lund to finish.

However, Lightning found their way back into the game with a spell of possession, winning a penalty just into Gloucester’s half. A pin-point kick from Helen Nelson into the corner put the

victors in prime position to score, and from the resulting line-out, Bryony Field found her way over from the back of a driving maul. A successful conversion by Helen Nelson narrowed the gap to 10-7.

Gloucester responded immediately with a score from Hunt, which Sing converted to reestablish their 10-point lead but Field scored a second for Lightning in a similar manner to the first.

However, a score from Sisilia Tuipulotu took the home side to 22-12 up at the break. Despite continued effort from Lightning, Rugman, Lund and Hunt both found their way over the whitewash again in the second half, while Hannah Jones added another to round out their victory.

By Bethan Clargo

TODAYS OPPOSITION DMP DURHAM SHARKS

Darlington Mowden Park Sharks (known currently as DMP Durham Sharks) were founded in 1996 in Ripon and later moved to Thirsk in North Yorkshire where it was known as Thirsk RFC. The club then moved to Darlington in 2006 and became affiliated to Darlington Mowden Park and changed its name accordingly.

In 2009, Darlington Mowden Park Sharks were promoted from Championship North to the women’s Premiership after finishing top of the table. They then defeated Championship 1 South Team Bath Rugby Ladies in extra time in the playoffs in order to be promoted.

The club used to play their home matches at Yiewsley Drive but in 2012 they purchased The Darlington Arena after Darlington F.C. went out of business.

During the 2016/17 season the sharks launched a development squad for the first time which provided younger players in the with the opportunity to gain experience ahead of the inaugural Tyrells Premier 15s league.

The club has always finished in the bottom half of the table, currently sitting at tenth in the table with zero points.

LOUGHBOROUGH LIGHTNING STAFF

RHYS EDWARDS Director of Rugby

ELANA HOBBS Lightning Team Manager

JAMES GALLAGHER Rugby Programme Manager

KATIE THRIFT Rugby Operations

MARTA GOMEZ SANTOS Media & Marketing Lead

BRAD JONES Performance Coach

SARAH HUNTER Performance Coach

STEVE MCGINNIS Performance Coach

BETHAN CLARGO Media Marketing

MADDIE WAND Performance Analyst

TAIA TUNSTALL S&C Support

ALEX BREWER Performance Analyst

KATIE TREVARTHEN BUCS Head Coach

WILL GARVEY Lead Physio

BETHAN CROUSE

NIAMH COLLINS

ADAM BURTON

EMILY SCARRATT Performace Coach

SIMON MINTON

Support

DATE TIME OPPONENTS RESULTS 17/09/2022 13:30 A WASPS 47-17 WIN 15/10/2022 14:00 H BRISTOL BEARS 40-24 LOSS 22/10/2022 14:00 A SARACENS 23-19 LOSS 29/10/2022 14:00 H SALE SHARKS 39-14 WIN 19/11/2022 14:30 A SARACENS 34-21 LOSS 26/11/2022 14:00 H HARLEQUINS 24-25 LOSS 03/12/2022 14:00 A SALE SHARKS 14-15 LOSS 10/12/2022 14:00 H EXETER CHIEFS 52-5 LOSS 17/12/2022 14:30 A BRISTOL BEARS 26-31 LOSS 08/01/2023 TBC H WASPS 62-5 WIN 14/01/2023 TBC A GLOUCESTER-HARTPURY 46-12 LOSS 21/01/2023 TBC H DMP 28/01/2023 TBC A WORCESTER WARRIORS 04/02/2023 TBC A HARLEQUINS 18/02/2023 TBC H SALES SHARKS 25/02/2023 TBC A EXETER CHIEFS 04/03/2023 TBC H BRISTOL BEARS 11/03/2023 TBC A WASPS 13/05/2023 TBC H GLOUCESTER-HARTPURY 20/05/2023 TBC A DMP 27/05/2023 TBC H WORCESTER WARRIORS 03/06/2023 TBC H SARACENS

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS RFC

1XV FIXTURES 22/23

DATE TIME OPPONENTS RESULTS

10/09/2022 15:00 A STOURBRIDGE 25-54 WIN 17/09/2022 14:00 H EXETER 17-37 LOSS 24/09/2022 14:30 A HORNETS 40-38 LOSS 01/10/2022 14:00 H HINCKLEY 35-35 DRAW 15/10/2022 14:15 A NEWPORT 24-22 WIN 22/10/2022 14:00 H LUCTONIANS 27-24 WIN 29/10/2022 15:00 A DINGS CRUSADERS 48-24 LOSS 05/11/2022 14:00 H OLD REDCLIFFIANS 57-30 WIN 12/11/2022 14:30 A BOURNVILLE 38-38 DRAW 26/11/2022 14:00 H LEICESTER LIONS 34-28 LOSS 03/12/2022 14:00 A BARNSTAPLE 36-33 LOSS 10/12/2022 14:00 H REDRUTH 33-32 LOSS 17/12/2022 14:00 H STOURBRIDGE 34-21 WIN 07/01/2023 14:00 A EXETER 17-15 LOSS 14/01/2023 14:00 H HORNETS 24-17 WIN 21/01/2023 15:00 A HINCKLEY 28/01/2023 14:00 H NEWPORT 18/02/2023 14:15 A LUCTONIANS 25/02/2023 14:00 H DINGS CRUSADERS 04/03/2023 14:00 A OLD REDCLIFIANS 11/03/2023 14:00 H BOURNVILLE 25/03/2023 14:00 A LEICESTER LIONS 01/04/2023 TBC H BARNSTAPLE 15/04/2023 14:00 A REDRUTH 22/04/2023 14:00 H CLIFTON

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