{"id":166024,"date":"2025-09-28T13:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/166024\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T13:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:22:09","slug":"denis-betts-wigan-warriors-boss-wins-womens-super-league-coach-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/166024\/","title":{"rendered":"Denis Betts: Wigan Warriors boss wins Women&#8217;s Super League Coach of the Year award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wigan Warriors boss Denis Betts has been named the Women&#8217;s Super League Coach of the Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Man of Steel and Lance Todd Trophy winner took his first job in the women&#8217;s game with Wigan at the start of the 2024 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A young Warriors squad has dominated the 2025 campaign under Betts and lifted their first Challenge Cup in June with victory over St Helens at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They also finished one point clear of Saints at the top of the Super League table with 12 wins, a draw and a single defeat from 14 matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It secured them home advantage in next Sunday in the Grand Final against Saints at The Brick Community Stadium (17:30 BST).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warriors&#8217; Jenna Foubister, Eva Hunter and Isabel Rowe are also all in the running for this year&#8217;s Woman of Steel award which will be announced at the Rugby League Awards Night on 7 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wigan Warriors boss Denis Betts has been named the Women&#8217;s Super League Coach of the Year. The former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-166024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}