1: Jane Mangham (now Coats), Crimson Rose quantity 31
Mangham now calls Edinburgh her dwelling and has been concerned in teaching each rugby and soccer in Scotland. Jane is a professional instructor however now enjoys life as a educating assistant.
2: Nicky Ponsford, Crimson Rose 10
Ponsford moved into the world of rugby governance turning into Head of Girls’s Efficiency on the RFU and launching the now Premiership Girls’s Rugby (PWR) league. Since 2021, she has labored for World Rugby as head of excessive efficiency.
3: Sandy Ewing, Crimson Rose 33
Ewing went to America to play for UCLA Membership and the Grizzlies representing California, whereas additionally mentoring up and coming front-row gamers. She returned to New Zealand in 1996 enjoying for Faculty Rifles and Auckland, earlier than hanging up her boots in 1999.
4: Sarah Wenn, Crimson Rose 30
Wenn retired from rugby after the World Cup to focus on her profession in advanced building environments, together with tasks just like the Second Severn Crossing and Heathrow’s Terminal 5. She now works in consultancy.
5: Heather Stirrup, Crimson Rose 29
Stirrup went on to handle the England squad. She then moved to Vancouver to show maths and coached rugby at Simon Fraser College and the British Columbia girls. She stayed in Canada and has just lately retired from educating.
6: Janis Ross (vice-captain), Crimson Rose 20
Ross returned to her job as a city planner however continued to play membership rugby till 2000. In 2005 she was recognized with a genetic cardiomyopathy and had an implantable defibrillator inserted, that means her sport is now “a little bit of social tennis”. Ross labored for the NHS, retiring in 2022 to turn into an artist.
7: Genevieve Shore, Crimson Rose 41
Shore has served on the RFU Board of Administrators since 2017. In 2022, she was introduced because the chair of Girls’s Premier 15 Restricted, now generally known as Premiership Girls’s Rugby (PWR).
8: Gill Burns, Crimson Rose 23
Burns later took on the England captaincy, and after hanging up her boots was named the primary feminine president of an English rugby membership, Waterloo. She grew to become president of the Rugby Soccer Union for Girls for 10 years. Gill continues to retailer essentially the most complete archive of ladies’s rugby memorabilia that will in any other case have been misplaced for future generations.
9: Emma Mitchell, Crimson Rose 19
Mitchell loved a profession in educational publishing however on her retirement from enjoying rugby coached within the USA, Canada and UK. In 2007 Emma joined the English Institute of Sport as a efficiency life-style coach. Emma and full-back Jane Mitchell are similar twin sisters.
10: Karen Almond (captain), Crimson Rose 1
After the 1994 World Cup, Almond went on a Saracens tour to New Zealand and gave up her educating job to remain on the market and journey. She finally made New Zealand her dwelling and received everlasting residency.
11: Annie Cole, Crimson Rose 39
Cole continued enjoying rugby at Henley till 2007 after which went again to enjoying hockey. She retrained to be a major faculty instructor in 2006 and is now a deputy headteacher in Maidenhead.
12: Giselle Prangnell (now Mather), Crimson Rose 35
Mather moved into teaching and have become the primary lady in England obtain the extent 4 teaching award. She coached the London Irish males’s academy earlier than heading up Wasps Girls and now leads Ealing Trailfinders Girls within the PWR.
13: Jacquie Edwards, Crimson Rose 37
Edwards went on to work in a wide range of roles on the College of Kent. She’s additionally a singer, performing as Ginger Bennett together with her Funk and Soul band Undertaking Okay and the KD Dance Orchestra.
14: Val Blackett, Crimson Rose 38
Blackett performed at Clifton then Cheltenham earlier than going again to Bristol, the place she completed enjoying on the age of 47. In 2024, she continues to be hoping to complete the season enjoying a number of video games of sevens.
15: Jane Mitchell, Crimson Rose 25
Mitchell settled in California enjoying for the Berkeley All Blues alongside a number of the US aspect from the 1994 last. Jane represented the West Coast Grizzly and the USA in 7s. Jane is the similar twin sister to scrum-half Emma.
