Girls' rugby at Stow-on-the-Wold!!

Stow-on-the-Wold & District Rugby Club (Stow RFC) is looking forward to the day when the club has a Women’s rugby team playing in a Rugby Union league and girls playing rugby at all age groups.

Stow RFC is based at Oddington Road, Stow-on-the-Wold.  The Club is affiliated to the Rugby Football Union (RFU) and to the Gloucestershire RFU and is a thriving Club with Senior, Junior and Minis rugby football teams playing every week of the season.  The Rugby Club was founded in 1879, when the railway system was extended to Stow-on-the-Wold.  In its long history it has always tried to evolve as the game of Rugby Union has evolved.  Over the years the club has worked hard to develop its facilites and playing structure and in the last fiftteen years it has developed a flourishing mini and junior section.  Women and girls have always been encouraged to participate in the club and over the last decade girls have played rugby in small numbers alongside boys.

Now Stow RFC is making a big push to encourage women to play rugby at the club.  From a successful women’s section it is hoped that a thriving girl’s section will develop.

Nationally, the girls’ game has taken great strides forward.  Viewing ‘Girls Rugby’ through the RFU website at www.rfu.com gives us a flavour of how fine tuned the structure around the girl’s game has become.  It’s now time for Stow RFC to take advantage of that structure and bring this exciting and challaging sport to the women in our community.

It you are sixteen or over, whether you have played rugby before and want to play again, or if you’ve never played and would like to learn, or if you would like to get involved in the rugby scene in any way (perhaps just to help with this initiative), or are just intreagued and want to know more, please contact Anne Powell on her email: annelhpowell@yahoo.co.uk.  Anne will co-ordinate the early development of our women’s section, encouraging women to develop a women’sub-committee within the club.  By next season we will be affiliated to the RFUW (the women’s section of the RFU) and look forward to many years of women’s and girls Rugby Union at Stow-on-the-Wold & District Rugby Club.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Ben Eddolls, Chairman.