Leicester Tigers and England playmaker Meg Jones has scooped the inaugural Premiership Girls’s Rugby (PWR) Participant of the Season award.
Jones, who’s presently getting ready to make a second look on the Olympic Video games with Nice Britain, beat runners-up Emma Sing, Sarah Beckett and Could Campbell to say the prize, which was voted for by media.
It’s reward for a advantageous debut season with Leicester, by which she scored 69 factors and shone in a group that struggled for type, ending backside of the nine-team desk.
Jones was additionally capable of cement her place in John Mitchell’s Crimson Roses facet, beginning 4 of England’s 5 Guinness Girls’s Six Nations matches and scoring three tries as they claimed one other Grand Slam.
“For the primary time ever, we’re doing finish of season awards to recognise the extraordinary contribution made by our gamers,” PWR chief government Belinda Moore stated.
“The Allianz PWR Participant of the Yr award has been voted for by the media most intently related to our sport. They’ve chosen a participant who regardless of a difficult season, has been an absolute standout for his or her membership and [Leicester’s] main factors scorer too.
“I’m completely delighted to say the primary ever PWR Participant of the Yr award goes to Meg Jones.”
Information of Jones’ award got here hours after Gloucester-Hartpury ahead Steph Else was named PWR Younger Participant of the Season.
Else loved a breakthrough marketing campaign at Kingsholm, making 13 league appearances, together with a second-half cameo in final weekend’s PWR remaining, as Gloucester-Hartpury retained their title.
The again row acquired the gong forward of runners-up Sadia Kabeya, Reneeqa Bonner, Maisy Allen and team-mate Georgia Brock.
It capped a advantageous day for Else, having additionally been named as one in all 4 Gloucester-Hartpury gamers within the England squad for subsequent month’s Six Nations Girls’s Summer time Sequence in Italy.
Else was joined within the squad chosen by England U20 ladies’s head coach LJ Lewis and her assistant Sarah McKenna by club-mates Jorja Battishill, Lola Whitley and Millie Hyett.
The Girls’s Summer time Sequence is an age-grade event, predominantly that includes under-20 gamers. England are because of play Eire, Wales and France in Parma.
