{"id":248403,"date":"2025-07-08T16:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T16:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/248403\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T16:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T16:13:10","slug":"new-tiger-baverstock-in-wales-squad-for-australia-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/248403\/","title":{"rendered":"New Tiger Baverstock in Wales squad for Australia tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Baverstock has been called into the senior Wales squad to tour Australia this summer.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestertigers.com\/news\/womens-squad-2526\" rel=\"noopener\">Having joined Leicester Tigers from Loughborough Lightning this summer,<\/a> the prop is one of thirty players included in the touring squad but one of just three uncapped players (alongside Seren Lockwood and Tilly Vucaj),\u00a0having\u00a0played age-grade rugby for Wales U18s and U20s and impressed during a recent pre-season camp.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Talking about the new additions to his squad,\u00a0Wales Head coach Sean Lynn said: &#8220;Seren, Katherine and Tilly really deserve their selection in the squad and have impressed us all with their rugby potential and attitude during pre-season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A prelude to the Autumn&#8217;s World Cup,\u00a0Wales will play a two Test series against the Wallaroos, set to take place Saturday, July 26\u00a0and\u00a0Friday, August 1 in Brisbane and Sydney respectively.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wales squad to tour Australia<\/strong><strong>Forwards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Katherine Baverstock (Leicester Tigers)<\/strong><br \/>Maisie Davies (Gwalia Lightning)<br \/>Gwenllian Pyrs (Sale Sharks)<br \/>Donna Rose (Saracens)<br \/>Jenni Scoble (Gwalia Lightning)<br \/>Sisilia Tuipulotu (Gloucester\/Hartpury)<br \/>Kelsey Jones (Gloucester\/Hartpury)<br \/>Carys Phillips (Harlequins)<br \/>Molly Reardon (Gwalia Lightning)<br \/>Alex Callender (co-captain, Harlequins)<br \/>Gwen Crabb (Gloucester\/Hartpury)<br \/>Georgia Evans (Saracens)<br \/>Abbie Fleming (Harlequins)<br \/>Bryonie King (Gwalia Lightning)<br \/>Bethan Lewis (Gloucester\/Hartpury)<br \/>Alaw Pyrs (Gloucester\/Hartpury)<br \/>Tilly Vucaj (Gwalia Lightning)<br \/>Kate Williams (co-captain Gloucester\/Hartpury)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Backs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Keira Bevan (Bristol Bears)<br \/>Meg Davies (Gloucester\/Hartpury)<br \/>Seren Lockwood (Gloucester\/Hartpury)<br \/>Lleucu George (Gloucester\/Hartpury)<br \/>Kayleigh Powell (Harlequins)<br \/>Carys Cox (Ealing Trailfinders)<br \/>Hannah Jones (Gloucester\/Hartpury)<br \/>Courtney Keight (Sale Sharks)<br \/>Jasmine Joyce (Bristol Bears)<br \/>Nel Metcalfe (Gloucester\/Hartpury)<br \/>Lisa Neumann (Harlequins)<br \/>Catherine Richards (Gwalia Lightning)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katherine Baverstock has been called into the senior Wales squad to tour Australia this summer. Having joined Leicester&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-248403","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\/114818502429209731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248403","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=248403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}