{"id":109557,"date":"2025-08-31T23:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/109557\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T23:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:07:20","slug":"womens-rugby-world-cup-2025-leading-try-scorers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/109557\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup 2025: Leading try-scorers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2025 Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup has featured a number of high-scoring games and six hat-tricks already after just 16 matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Let&#8217;s take a look at the top try-scorers so far.<\/p>\n<p>6. Julia Schell<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Julia Schell touches the ball down for a try\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cba43520-8699-11f0-a689-8fa22c790536.jpg\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"575.2470588235294\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Canada&#8217;s Schell has scored the highest number of tries so far with a grand total of six, and astonishingly they all came in the second half against Fiji<\/p>\n<p>5. Jess Breach<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jess Breach dives\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/7b314f00-869a-11f0-a689-8fa22c790536.jpg\"  width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having scored twice in England&#8217;s opening win over United States, Breach scored her 50th international try against Samoa and went on to score a hat-trick<\/p>\n<p>5. Desiree Miller<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Desiree Miller runs in for a try\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0bbb4300-869b-11f0-9cf6-cbf3e73ce2b9.jpg\"  width=\"3840\" height=\"2560\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia&#8217;s Miller scored a the first hat\u2011trick in Australia&#8217;s 73\u20110 win over Samoa and followed that up with two touchdowns in the thrilling 31-31 draw with United States<\/p>\n<p>5. Francesca McGhie<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Francesca McGhie dives to score\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/bd427f30-869b-11f0-a689-8fa22c790536.jpg\"  width=\"3840\" height=\"2160.4624277456646\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McGhie scored just 55 seconds into Scotland&#8217;s Pool B victory against Wales and finished with a hat-trick. She bagged two more in the win over Fiji<\/p>\n<p>4. Aseza Hele<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aseza Hele\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/8c6d9f60-869c-11f0-9015-97239b065059.jpg\"  width=\"841\" height=\"473\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hele scored a hat-trick in South Africa&#8217;s comfortable win over and notched her side&#8217;s opening try in the victory over Italy<\/p>\n<p>4. Jorja Miller<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jorja Miller celebrates scoring against Japan\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/fe3b2ac0-86ad-11f0-8638-2d2039b4073a.jpg\"  width=\"959\" height=\"540\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flanker Miller has been one of the stars of the World Cup, scoring two excellent tries in New Zealand&#8217;s opening win over Spain and another two against Japan<\/p>\n<p>4. Caitlyn Halse<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Caitlyn Halse\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/216b1a20-869d-11f0-9015-97239b065059.jpg\"  width=\"819\" height=\"461\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teenage full-back Caitlyn Halse, 18, has made a big impression in her first World Cup with tries against both Samoa and the USA<\/p>\n<p>3. Braxton Sorensen-McGee<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Braxton Sorensen-Mcgee\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/73b589f0-869d-11f0-9015-97239b065059.jpg\"  width=\"820\" height=\"460.00000000000006\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Black Ferns full-back Sorensen-McGee, who is also 18, caught the eye with a hat-trick against Japan<\/p>\n<p>3. Ayanda Malinga<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ayanda Malinga\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/e2ae3320-869d-11f0-9015-97239b065059.jpg\"  width=\"908\" height=\"510.00000000000006\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Africa win Malinga has run in three tries so far, two against Brazil and one against Italy<\/p>\n<p>3. Lark Atkin-Davies<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lark Atrkin-Davies powers over for England\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/9634c3f0-86ad-11f0-8638-2d2039b4073a.jpg\"  width=\"918\" height=\"517\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England hooker Davies scored twice against USA and once in the win over Samoa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup has featured a number of high-scoring games and six hat-tricks already after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-109557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}