England’s Meg Jones has been nominated for the World Rugby Women’s 15s Player of the Year award.<\/p>\n
Jones has started 11 of England’s 12 matches in 2025, and has been a key player in the Red Roses’ run to Saturday’s World Cup final,<\/a> including a stand-out performance in the semi-final win over France.<\/a><\/p>\n The 28-year-old centre, who also helped England to a Grand Slam at this year’s Six Nations, is up against Canada’s Sophie de Goede and New Zealand’s Jorja Miller.<\/p>\n The player of the year award, as well World Rugby’s breakthrough player of the year, coach of the year and referee award will be honoured during Saturday’s World Cup final.<\/p>\n Four of the past five women’s 15s players of the year have been English, including current holder, full-back Ellie Kildunne.<\/p>\n Black Ferns flanker Miller has also been nominated for breakthrough player of the year alongside international team-mate Braxton Sorensen-McGee and Fiji’s Josifini Neihamu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England’s Meg Jones has been nominated for the World Rugby Women’s 15s Player of the Year award. Jones…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-160960","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\/160960","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=160960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}