{"id":268416,"date":"2025-11-17T20:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/268416\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T20:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:31:08","slug":"ruahei-demant-new-zealand-fly-half-to-join-bristol-bears-on-short-term-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/268416\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruahei Demant: New Zealand fly-half to join Bristol Bears on short-term deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former world player of the year Ruahei Demant will join Bristol Bears on a four-month deal at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 30-year-old New Zealand international was named player of the match when the Black Ferns won the 2021 Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup (played in 2022).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Demant, who can play fly-half and centre, will join up with the Bears ahead of their Premiership Women&#8217;s Rugby match against reigning champions Gloucester-Hartpury on Sunday, 30 November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m so excited to have the opportunity to represent Bristol Bears in a world leading competition like the PWR,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I can&#8217;t wait to meet the girls, the management and the fans all while growing as a person and a player. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m extremely grateful NZR [New Zealand Rugby] have allowed me to explore this opportunity and will return refreshed and ready for PAC4 [Pacific Four Series] in April.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Demant is one of three female players to have won 50 international caps for New Zealand and has scored 130 points for her country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bristol have five points from their opening three PWR games and sit eighth in the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former world player of the year Ruahei Demant will join Bristol Bears on a four-month deal at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-268416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268416","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=268416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}