{"id":202189,"date":"2025-06-21T09:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T09:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202189\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T09:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T09:31:10","slug":"trailfinders-women-sign-scotland-international-emma-wassell-ealing-news-the-voice-of-ealings-7-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202189\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailfinders Women sign Scotland international Emma Wassell &#8211; EALING.NEWS &#8211; The Voice of Ealing&#8217;s 7 towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Trailfinders Women have signed Scottish international Emma Wassell, ahead of the 2025\/26 Premiership Women\u2019s Rugby (PWR) season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wassell, who boasts 67 caps for Scotland, has been a cornerstone of the national team since debuting in the 2014 Six Nations. Since then she made 54 consecutive internationals, a run halted only in April 2022 due to a wrist injury. She played a key role in Scotland\u2019s return to the Rugby World Cup in 2021, their first appearance since 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old second row previously represented Loughborough Lightning in the PWR, where she made 28 appearances before departing earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2024, Wassell\u2019s career was put on hold after she was diagnosed with a tumour in her chest. A sternotomy followed, and she missed the 2024\/25 season to focus on recovery. However, she returned to the national training squad in May 2025 for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>She said of playing rugby in Ealing: \u201cI\u2019m really excited to be joining the club. It\u2019s a new chapter for me, and I\u2019m really excited to play amongst some incredible players, it seems like a lot of fun down there. The team play a really exciting brand of rugby \u2013 and I want a piece of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wassell added: \u201cI\u2019ve had a bit of a rough season to say the least, and I just cannot wait to get back out there playing rugby with some incredible girls. I want to push myself, be challenged with the competition at the club, but also enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trailfinders head coach Barney Maddison described Wassell as a \u201cworld-class operator in the second row\u201d. He added: \u201cHer experience, consistency and leadership will be a huge asset to the squad, and we\u2019re thrilled to have her on board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"tdm-descr\">Are you an Ealing resident with a story to share? Or spotted something we should know about?<br \/>\nGet in touch with us by emailing: <a href=\"https:\/\/ealing.news\/sport\/trailfinders-women-sign-scotland-international-emma-wassell\/mailto:news@ealing.news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news@ealing.news<\/a>  or contact us on X <a href=\"www.twitter.com\/_ealingnews\">@_EalingNews<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trailfinders Women have signed Scottish international Emma Wassell, ahead of the 2025\/26 Premiership Women\u2019s Rugby (PWR) season. Wassell,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,81570,4884,712,24603,81571,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-202189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-ealing-trailfinders","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-trailfinders","13":"tag-trailfinders-women","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114720662138889460","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202189","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=202189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}