Rugby union was not McGhie’s first love. <\/p>\n
Dancing was her passion, and her talents as a ballet and contemporary dancer earned her a place at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.<\/p>\n
That nimble footwork would serve her well in her ultimate calling as a rugby player, but it was not until 2018 that she took up the game, as a 15-year-old.<\/p>\n
She joined Watsonians the following year and helped the club to the Premiership title in 2023.<\/p>\n
She received her first Scotland call-up that same year, announcing herself in the Test arena with a stunning solo try in a victory over Ireland, which led to a nomination for World Rugby’s Breakthrough Player of the Year award.<\/p>\n
McGhie has proved herself to be a player for the big occasion. <\/p>\n
She came up with a last-gasp match-winning try against Ireland in this year’s Six Nations, and her hat-trick against Wales took her international try-scoring record to 13 in 23 games.<\/p>\n
“When you put Fran McGhie in space, what a finisher,” Scotland head coach Bryan Easson told BBC Scotland after Saturday’s win.<\/p>\n
“I’d said to her this morning she’ll get a couple of scores, but I said to her at half-time, ‘come on, that’s not enough’.<\/p>\n
“One-on-one, I don’t think there’s anybody better in the world. She’s a world-class finisher without a doubt.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rugby union was not McGhie’s first love. Dancing was her passion, and her talents as a ballet and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-368955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115081960696369437","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368955","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=368955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}