SVNS Sequence champions Australia will completely relocate to Brisbane if the Authorities approves funding for a sevens Excessive-Efficiency Centre, as confirmed by Rugby Australia Chairman Dan Herbert on Wednesday.
With captain Charlotte Caslick main the way in which, the Aussies overcame a collection of powerful matchups on the winner-takes-all SVNS Sequence Grand Closing in Madrid earlier this month which included a tense semi-final win over New Zealand.
Taking out the first-ever Grand Closing title is the proper preparation for the Australian girls’s facet earlier than the quickly approaching Paris Olympics. The ladies in gold will tackle the world’s finest in entrance of hundreds at Stade de France subsequent month.
Whereas the Paris Video games is clearly an enormous focus for the time being, Rugby Australia has reaffirmed its dedication to the way forward for the sevens program and girls’s rugby with a landmark announcement in Brisbane.
Rugby Australia is proposing to maneuver the nation’s gold successful Girls’s Rugby Sevens group to Brisbane completely if the State Authorities agrees to assist pay for an improve of Ballymore Stadium. @JoshBavas #9News pic.twitter.com/hTYmQL13iV
— 9News Queensland (@9NewsQueensland) June 20, 2024
RA are intent on relocating the ladies’s sevens facet to the ‘Sunshine State’ of Queensland if the Authorities backs a brand new Excessive-Efficiency Centre or grandstand on the japanese facet of the long-lasting rugby union venue.
“We’re extraordinarily pleased with our Aussie Sevens girls who’ve in recent times gained a World Cup, a Commonwealth Video games gold medal, the World Sequence and, simply this month, the Madrid Grand Closing of the most recent (SVNS Sequence) season,” Rugby Australia Chairman, Dan Herbert, stated in an announcement.
“It makes excellent sense to have our elite girls’s sevens program primarily based on the identical venue as our 15-a-side Wallaroos program as a result of our technique is to have them extra intently built-in.
“You simply should see what’s forward with our internet hosting of the 2019 Rugby World Cup for ladies and the 2032 Brisbane Olympics the place rugby sevens will play to sellout crowds.
“There may be additionally the flexibility to encourage girls and boys on their very own Olympic journey as a result of the 13 and 14-year-olds of right now would be the potential Olympians of Brisbane 2032.
“What Charlotte Caslick and the present squad do on the Paris Olympics in just some weeks will stir that pleasure much more.
“We all know rugby sevens is booming for ladies and women. In 2023, there was a 26 per cent development in sevens participation. The expansion at 15s stage was at 16 per cent. RA has dedicated an extra $3 million to the ladies’s recreation in 2024.
A season to recollect 🙌#Aussie7s #HSBCSVNS pic.twitter.com/wHX41k61hI
— Australia Sevens (@Aussie7s) June 17, 2024
“We all know Ballymore is the precise house for ladies’s sevens.
“At this time, I’m blissful to announce RA’s dedication to maneuver the Australian girls’s rugby sevens program to Ballymore full-time pending funding approval for the development of a girls’s sevens Excessive-Efficiency facility.”
Coach Tim Walsh highlighted the good thing about having three fields obtainable to the group on the Ballymore complicated, in addition to different elements together with the elevated sunshine months.
The brand new-look Ballymore has already hosted a plethora {of professional} sporting groups which simply goes to indicate that it has already develop into “a necessary hub for ladies’s rectangular sport” in Queensland.
“Greater than 90,000 folks have attended the BMS Nationwide Rugby Coaching Centre because it opened 12 months in the past,” Queensland Rugby Union Chief Govt, David Hanham, defined.
“Women and men, girls and boys, have come to coach and play rugby sevens and 15s, girls’s A-League soccer and Flag Soccer. The precinct hosted three NRL golf equipment for coaching earlier than Magic Spherical and rugby’s grassroots membership grand finals.
“Delivering the NRTC redevelopment on time and on funds for $31.5 million is proof the brand new Ballymore is as billed… multi-purpose and a necessary hub for ladies’s rectangular sport in Queensland.
“It had assist from either side of Authorities and we continued to work with Authorities on our imaginative and prescient for the longer term which is a Excessive-Efficiency Centre for ladies’s sevens inside a grandstand for the venue’s Olympic future.”
