{"id":217927,"date":"2025-06-27T06:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T06:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/217927\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T06:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T06:35:10","slug":"wales-scrum-half-ffion-lewis-signs-for-chicago-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/217927\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales scrum-half Ffion Lewis signs for Chicago Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wales scrum-half Ffion Lewis has signed for the Chicago Lions women’s sevens team.<\/b><\/p>\n

The former Bristol Bear left Wales’ professional programme after being told her contract was not going to be renewed this summer.<\/a><\/p>\n

She was allowed to leave in the middle of the 2025 Women’s Six Nations to protect her mental health and to pursue other opportunities in the United States.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old hinted she was “closing the chapter” on her international career but that she was “nowhere near done with the game”.<\/p>\n

Lewis won 33 caps after making her debut in 2018, but in more recent years her career was blighted by a serious knee injury and severe symptoms of endometriosis.<\/p>\n

She was one of a number of senior players that Wales’ new head coach Sean Lynn decided not to keep on, with fly-half Niamh Terry, centre Meg Webb and wing Carys Williams-Morris also becoming free agents in June.<\/p>\n

Chicago Lions have enjoyed success at Midwest and national level in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales scrum-half Ffion Lewis has signed for the Chicago Lions women’s sevens team. The former Bristol Bear left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-217927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114753943963814995","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217927","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=217927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}