Rugby Australia is delighted to announce Reg Tayler as Head Coach of the Australia Women\u2019s Rugby Sevens program through to the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028.<\/p>\n
Tayler steps up from his previous role as Assistant Coach and will lead the side following Tim Walsh\u2019s elevation to the newly created position of Director of Women\u2019s High Performance.<\/p>\n
The former Queensland coach joined the Australian Sevens program in 2025 under Walsh having spent two years with Ireland\u2019s Sevens coaching staff.<\/p>\n
Tayler has held previous roles as Head Coach of the Australia A Women\u2019s Rugby Sevens side and with the Queensland Academy of Sport.<\/p>\n
Australia Women\u2019s Sevens coach Reg Tayler said: \u201cI am honoured by the opportunity to take the next step in my coaching career and lead the Australian Sevens Women\u2019s team.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have built tremendous momentum following our World Championship win and the squad is determined for continued success through to the Olympics in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur players are professional and dedicated to achieving a gold medal and I am confident we will have the squad capable of that in 2028.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tayler will work alongside Walsh and the Wallaroos Head Coach as part of a wider Rugby Australia strategy with both women\u2019s programs aligning under a full-time High Performance model by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n
Director of Women\u2019s High Performance Tim Walsh said: \u201cReg has been part of a succession plan for the Australia Women\u2019s Sevens program since joining the coaching staff last year and is a seamless acquisition for the squad ahead of the Olympics.<\/p>\n
\u201cReg is highly knowledgeable of the World Series circuit and has worked with many of our players coming through the pathways system. He\u2019s not going in cold, he completely understands the game and his expertise is going to be fully utilised by the program.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a privilege and honour to retain Reg and a real positive for Rugby Sevens and women\u2019s rugby in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Australia Sevens program will begin preparations for the Olympic qualifying 2026-2027 campaign when players return to pre-season training in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rugby Australia is delighted to announce Reg Tayler as Head Coach of the Australia Women\u2019s Rugby Sevens program…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,31153,85],"class_list":["post-813273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-sevens","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813273","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=813273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}