{"id":894002,"date":"2026-09-16T11:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T11:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/894002\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T11:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T11:06:10","slug":"wxv-olivia-apps-named-mitsubishi-electric-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/894002\/","title":{"rendered":"WXV: Olivia Apps named Mitsubishi Electric Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s Olivia Apps has been named Mitsubishi Electric Player of the Week after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.world.rugby\/wxv\/en\/news\/1046226\/wxv-global-series-burton-stars-as-england-power-past-australia-while-canada-ease-past-scotland-and-new-zealand-get-the-better-of-france\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">stellar performance in her side&#8217;s 64-26 win over Scotland<\/a> in the opening round of the 2026 WXV Global Series.<\/p>\n<p>The scrum-half played a pivotal role for Canada, bagging a try in each half and bridging together several key plays that pushed the visitors to capitalise on every opportunity at Edinburgh&#8217;s Hive Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Apps&#8217; second try was one of the moments of the opening weekend&#8217;s matches, with the veteran scrum-half sprinting from the back of a scrum 50-metres out, side-stepping several Scottish defenders to the try area and, in the end, needing only a triumphant dive to extend Canada&#8217;s already big lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As well as her brace of tries, Apps clocked up two try assists, two line breaks, beat seven defenders, as well as successfully completing nine tackles and earning her side a turnover in a pitch-perfect display.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old earned her 26th cap for Canada, having helped her country finish second at Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup 2025, in a career that has also included a silver medal at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Canada travels next to England, where they will face the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup holders, where Apps expected to be a leading figure in what should be one of the must-watch fixtures of WXV Global Series 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Olivia Apps has been named Mitsubishi Electric Player of the Week after a stellar performance in her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,83],"class_list":["post-894002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894002","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=894002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}