{"id":152107,"date":"2025-09-18T13:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/152107\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T13:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:01:10","slug":"ive-never-fallen-so-hard-how-canadas-julia-schell-reacted-to-shania-twain-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/152107\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019ve never fallen so hard\u2019 \u2013 How Canada\u2019s Julia Schell reacted to Shania Twain message"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Julia Schell<\/a> did not know how to respond when she found out that Shania Twain had sent a message of support to the Canada<\/a> women\u2019s national team.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday the 60-year-old country-pop juggernaut commented \u201cI\u2019ll be cheering for you all on Friday!! Let\u2019s go girls!\u201d on Instagram, to which Canada responded \u201cwelcome to the team\u201d ahead of their 2025 Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup<\/a> semi-final with New Zealand<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the wake of the interaction Schell wrote that she was \u201cnot okay\u201d after seeing the icon\u2019s message.<\/p>\n

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But after she was named in K\u00e9vin Rouet\u2019s starting side to take on New Zealand<\/a> this Friday night, the 29-year-old revealed that was only part of the story.<\/p>\n

\u201cI freaked out, obviously,\u201d Schell said. \u201cMe and another teammate, who is not on tour with us right now, are very big Shania Twain fans.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter training I saw a message from my friend saying to go and check Instagram. I literally sprinted from the bus into the changing rooms, and I\u2019ve never fallen so hard.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was wearing these silly little slippers, and I absolutely ate the floor. That probably sums up how I was feeling about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

For their semi-final with the Black Ferns, Rouet has named an unchanged starting side and Schell will start in her fifth match of the tournament.<\/p>\n

A rock at full-back, Schell and her teammates have their sights fully set on reaching the World Cup final at Twickenham Stadium on Saturday 27 September.<\/p>\n

It was only two years ago that the Canadians registered a first-ever win against their southern hemisphere opponents in the Pacific Four Series<\/a>. Earlier this year they drew 27-all.<\/p>\n

Allan Bunting\u2019s New Zealand are without injured flanker Jorja Miller<\/a> for the contest at Bristol\u2019s Ashton Gate Stadium.<\/p>\n

Miller was an instrumental performer for the Ferns a week ago in Exeter as they came back from being held 10-10 by the Springbok Women<\/a> at half-time to ultimately win the contest 46-17.<\/p>\n

Friday night will be another test of Canada\u2019s mettle. In the past two years the side have established themselves as capable of winning this year\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n

Throughout their Pool B outings there was a sense more was to come from the side and against Australia<\/a> there was nothing but brilliance on display as the North Americans sent the Wallaroos home with a 46-5 scoreline hanging over their heads.<\/p>\n

Such performances have turned murmurs of the possibility of Canada as World Cup contenders into full voice. Something that cannot be avoided by Schell and her teammates in camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something we\u2019ve chatted about throughout the tournament,\u201d Schell said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been going on a week-to-week basis and focusing on ourselves. We know it\u2019s a big game and it\u2019s the world champions, and we know what we need to do to beat them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Julia Schell did not know how to respond when she found out that Shania Twain had sent a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-152107","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\/152107","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=152107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}