England\u2019s World Cup-winning wing Abby Dow has announced her retirement from rugby at the age of 28.<\/p>\n
She won seven Six Nations<\/a> titles, including six Grand Slams, before lifting the World Cup<\/a> in September with a 33-13 win over Canada<\/a> in front of a sell-out crowd at Allianz Stadium, Twickenham. The wing has been one of the best to wear an England<\/a> shirt, scoring 50 tries in 59 caps.<\/p>\n Dow has been without a club since leaving Trailfinders<\/a> Women at the beginning of the summer, and with no signing news from other PWR<\/a> clubs, many assumed she was taking a break from the club scene after the World Cup.<\/p>\n However, Dow has revealed she plans on returning to a career in mechanical engineering, having completed her degree at Imperial College London in 2020.<\/p>\n Dow told BBC Sport<\/a>: \u201cI 100% could go to another World Cup, I could go on a Lions tour, I do appreciate they are big things that could have been on the radar.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I\u2019m also so excited for different chapters of my life, I think I\u2019ve given as much as I can in this form of the game, and I\u2019m just ready for the next move.\u201d<\/p>\n England head coach John Mitchell said: \u201cI personally believe that we are losing arguably the best right winger in world rugby at the peak of her powers, but we fully respect her decision to move on to a new chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n Dow said: \u201cI just know that my professional career is done and I\u2019m ready to love the sport in a different way. And I think that\u2019s the joy of rugby, is that you can love it in so many different ways.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not just there for you just to play, it\u2019s for there for you to watch. It\u2019s there for you to be a volunteer. It\u2019s there to be part of a family. I look at how it started for me when it was a family affair, and I hope in the future for me that it could be the same.\u201d<\/p>\n Dow was ranked as the 12th best player in the world ahead of the 2025 Rugby World Cup<\/a> in RugbyPass\u2019 Top 50 Women\u2019s Players<\/a> campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England\u2019s World Cup-winning wing Abby Dow has announced her retirement from rugby at the age of 28. She…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-284563","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\/284563","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=284563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}