{"id":183739,"date":"2025-06-14T12:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T12:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/183739\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T12:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T12:28:10","slug":"england-rugby-player-kicks-to-extend-her-fathers-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/183739\/","title":{"rendered":"England rugby player kicks to extend her father\u2019s life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An England and Harlequins U20s rugby player took part in a 24 hour kicking challenge to raise money for her father\u2019s cancer treatment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ella Cromack, 20, aimed to complete 1611 conversions at the Twickenham Stoop Stadium on 30 May, with this number representing the date that her father received his diagnosis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Simon Cromack was diagnosed with an incurable, glioblastoma brain tumour in November 2023 and has since been receiving treatments in Germany, due to them being unavailable on the NHS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When people have challenged Ella\u2019s stamina for the challenge, she said: \u201cPhysically it\u2019s going to be tough but mentally, it\u2019s going to be easy knowing that I\u2019m doing it for my dad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below for the full report.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Feature image credit: Grace Wiszowaty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An England and Harlequins U20s rugby player took part in a 24 hour kicking challenge to raise money&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,1204,393,4211,17877,4884,12074,28118,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-183739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-cancer","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-england-rugby","12":"tag-fundraiser","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-harlequins","15":"tag-twickenham","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}