Megan Jones is an influential determine on and off the pitch.
Cardiff-born however an England worldwide, she has gained silverware in sevens and XVs.
Ten issues it is best to learn about Megan Jones
1. Megan Jones was born on 23 October 1996 in Cardiff. She is a fluent Welsh speaker however certified for England via her mom.
2. She began enjoying rugby, aged six, at Glamorgan Wanderers, earlier than transferring to Hartpury Faculty aged 16. She studied Sports activities Science and Administration whereas enjoying rugby on the Gloucester establishment.
3. Jones made her worldwide sevens debut aged 17, making her England’s youngest ever girls’s participant within the sport. The next 12 months, whereas at Bristol Bears, Jones broke into the England XVs aspect.
Since then within the XVs recreation she has gained a number of Girls’s Six Nations titles and a WXV 1 title. Jones won’t compete within the 2024 WXV 1 or the Purple Roses’ earlier September video games as she has been dominated out with harm. She has a big ankle harm which requires surgical procedure.
4. She scored in England’s semi-final win over France on the 2017 Girls’s World Cup, however the Purple Roses misplaced to New Zealand 41-32 within the closing.
5. Jones joined the England Sevens programme forward of the 2017-18 World Sevens Collection and gained bronze on the 2018 Commonwealth Video games. She remained a part of the set-up till the Rugby Soccer Union (RFU) minimize funding in August 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic. After a 12 months away she re-joined the outfit whereas nonetheless enjoying for the Purple Roses.
6. Searching for enjoying time, Jones returned to XVs with Wasps in September 2020. When the membership went into administration in 2022, Jones signed for Leicester Tigers.
7. After travelling to the 2016 Olympics as a non-playing reserve, Jones co-captained Nice Britain on the Tokyo Video games in 2021. She scored 4 tries and Britain completed fourth. She then additionally represented GB on the 2024 Paris Video games the place the workforce completed seventh.
8. When the UK went into nationwide lockdown in November 2020, Jones partnered with Lions Sports activities Academy to offer free on-line health classes to youngsters.
9. Jones’ accomplice is her England and Nice Britain team-mate Celia Quansah. Chatting with BBC Sport, she expressed her pleasure in being a voice for same-sex {couples} in sport.
“We’re very proud and it helps that we’re each vocal about it,” Jones stated in 2021. “Talking about issues normalises it – it’s so simple as that.”
10. Jones has been known as the ‘humorous one’ within the Staff GB squad.
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