Head coach Bryan Easson has named Scotland’s 32-player squad for Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025, which gets underway in Sunderland, England on 22 August.<\/p>\n
Captain Rachel Malcolm leads a selection comprising 18 forwards and 14 backs for a Pool B campaign where Scotland will face an opening match against Wales in Salford on 23 August, before further ties against Fiji and world number two, Canada.<\/p>\n
Hooker Lana Skeldon is the most-capped member of the squad with 81 matches for Scotland, while nine players have amassed more than 50 appearances.<\/p>\n
Flanker Malcolm is one of 21 players to have appeared at Rugby World Cup 2021, which was played in 2022 due to Covid. Other than the captain, the other forwards selected for their second Rugby World Cups are Leah Bartlett, Molly Wright (props) Elis Martin, Lana Skeldon (hookers), Jade Konkel, Rachel McLachlan (back row), Eva Donaldson, Sarah Bonar and Emma Wassell (second row). Among the backs returning for a second Rugby World Cup are vice-captain Helen Nelson (fly-half), Coreen Grant, Rhona Lloyd (wings), Emma Orr, Evie Wills, Lisa Thomson (centres) and Caity Mattinson (scrum-half).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Emma Wassell’s selection caps a remarkable personal comeback, having made her way back to international rugby after recovering from a benign tumour in her chest last September.<\/p>\n
Walker and Clarke sisters create headlines for Scots<\/p>\n
At the other end of the experience spectrum, wing Hannah Walker is the only uncapped player selected, while Hannah Ramsay earned her first two caps during Scotland\u2019s summer tests against Italy and Ireland. The other players preparing for Rugby World Cup debuts are Becky Boyd, Adelle Ferrie (second row), Lisa Cockburn, Molly Poolman (props), Beth Blacklock (fly-half\/centre), Leia Brebner-Holden, Rhea Clarke (scrum-half), Francesca McGhie, Hannah Walker (wings), Hannah Ramsay (flay-half) and back row duo Evie Gallagher and Alex Stewart.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Elliann and Rhea Clarke make history as the first Scottish sisters to be selected for the same Rugby World Cup tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 32-player strong group contains five players who have featured for Edinburgh Rugby in the 2024\/25 season of the Celtic Challenge.<\/p>\n
Scotland squad<\/p>\n
(Caps) * played the last Rugby World Cup<\/p>\n
Forwards<\/strong> Backs<\/strong>
Leah Bartlett \u2013 Leicester Tigers (45)*
Becky Boyd \u2013 Loughborough Lightning (3)
Sarah Bonar \u2013 Harlequins (47)*
Elliann Clarke \u2013 Bristol Bears (22)*
Lisa Cockburn \u2013 Gloucester Hartpury (34)
Eva Donaldson \u2013 Sale Sharks (17)*
Evie Gallagher \u2013 Bristol Bears (37)
Adelle Ferrie \u2013 Edinburgh Rugby\/Corstorphine Cougars (6)
Jade Konkel \u2013 Harlequins (71)*
Rachel Malcolm \u2013 captain – Trailfinders Women (58)*
Elis Martin \u2013 Loughborough Lightning (22)*
Rachel McLachlan \u2013 Montpellier (53)*
Molly Poolman \u2013 Edinburgh Rugby\/Watsonian FC (5)
Lana Skeldon \u2013 Bristol Bears (81)*
Alex Stewart \u2013 Edinburgh Rugby\/Corstorphine Cougars (13)
Emma Wassell \u2013 Trailfinders Women (69)*
Molly Wright \u2013 Sale Sharks (24)*
Anne Young \u2013 Loughborough Lightning (21)*<\/p>\n
Leia Brebner-Holden \u2013 Loughborough Lightning (11)
Beth Blacklock \u2013 Saracens (4)
Rhea Clarke \u2013 Bristol Bears (1)
Coreen Grant \u2013 Harlequins (17)*
Rhona Lloyd \u2013 Sale Sharks (59)*
Caity Mattinson \u2013 Trailfinders Women (33)*
Francesca McGhie \u2013 Trailfinders Women (22)
Helen Nelson \u2013 Loughborough Lightning (71)*
Hannah Ramsay \u2013 Edinburgh Rugby\/University of Edinburgh (2)
Chloe Rollie \u2013 Toulon Provence Mediterranee (77)*
Emma Orr \u2013 Bristol Bears (30)*
Lisa Thomson \u2013 Trailfinders Women (71)*
Hannah Walker \u2013 Edinburgh Rugby\/University of Edinburgh (Uncapped)
Evie Wills \u2013 Sale Sharks (6)*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head coach Bryan Easson has named Scotland’s 32-player squad for Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025, which gets underway…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,4884,712,661,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-325262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-scotland","11":"tag-text","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114987667500019034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325262","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=325262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}