Mia Drescher, Zoe King, Olivia Leach, and Tracy Ojeaburu have joined the Saints Women\u2019s senior squad for pre-season.<\/p>\n
These four youngsters follow in the footsteps of England international Katie Mottershead and St.Helens Women\u2019s Young Player of the Season for 2025, Erin McDonald, by progressing from our Academy programme in recent years.<\/p>\n
King in the back row, and Leach as an outside back, were ever-present in the Saints Women\u2019s Academy\u2019s 2025 campaign, playing in all 12 matches in the competition, and also featured in the Women\u2019s Nines Festival.<\/p>\n
Prop forward Ojeaburu impressed throughout last season, missing just one match in the year due to injury.<\/p>\n
Drescher is currently over in Australia as part of the Saints\u2019 Female Player Exchange with the Redcliffe Dolphins, gaining valuable experience by training and making herself available for selection in the Women\u2019s Under-19s Queensland competition. The half-back has already made her official St.Helens debut during the summer and will return to the UK in April.<\/p>\n
Head of Women\u2019s Pathways at St.Helens, Jodie Cunningham, said: \u201cEach of the girls was outstanding for our Academy last year and thoroughly deserves their call-up into the First Team squad for 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cMia was fantastic when she debuted at the back end of last season, and I can\u2019t wait to see what Zoe, Liv, and Tracy do when they get their opportunity to step out on the field as a First Team Saint.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur Academy and P2P [Pathway to Performance] programme continues to produce incredible talent for our senior squad. This showcases the fantastic work of our pathway coaches, in particular Graham Cranny, whose hard work in developing these girls over the last 12 months sees them now take this big step up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mia Drescher, Zoe King, Olivia Leach, and Tracy Ojeaburu have joined the Saints Women\u2019s senior squad for pre-season.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-283703","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\/283703","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=283703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}