{"id":287645,"date":"2025-11-28T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/287645\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T10:00:07","slug":"england-forward-returns-to-st-helens-following-stint-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/287645\/","title":{"rendered":"England forward returns to St Helens following stint Down Under"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paige Travis has sealed a return to Women\u2019s Super League outfit St Helens following her departure from NRLW side Parramatta Eels.<\/p>\n<p>Nine-time England international Travis \u2013 who turned 26 in August \u2013 headed Down Under ahead of the 2025 campaign and penned a two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>The back-rower went on to feature 11 times for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loverugbyleague.com\/club\/parramatta-eels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Parramatta<\/a>, with the Eels finishing seventh on the ladder in the NRLW and missing out on the play-offs by a solitary point.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of September, the Australian club confirmed that Travis was among ten departures from their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loverugbyleague.com\/tag\/nrlw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRLW<\/a> squad: bringing an early end to her contract.<\/p>\n<p>Now, she has seen a return to Saints confirmed, heading back to Merseyside ahead of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>England international Paige Travis returns to St Helens following stint Down Under<\/p>\n<p>Rochdale native Travis featured in union for Littleborough RUFC before joining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loverugbyleague.com\/club\/st-helens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saints<\/a>, who she spent six years with in her first stint at the BrewDog Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Forming part of the squad which won four Women\u2019s Challenge Cups on the spin between 2021 and 2024, the forward has scored 35 tries in 65 appearances in their colours to date.<\/p>\n<p>As her return was announced, she said: \u201cI\u2019m very excited to be a Saint again!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s in the family, and I wouldn\u2019t want to be anywhere else because I am always going to be a Saint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI stayed up watching the games I could this year, my mum goes to every game, and the girls are family to me, so Saints never really left me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe club\u2019s support (when I went to Australia) meant everything. I wanted to go and explore that opportunity and I had their backing, and that\u2019s why this is the only club I would ever come back to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I\u2019m coming back home as a better player, on and off the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve learned a lot by being in a full-time professional environment in Australia, which is something I hope the Women\u2019s Super League can do one day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to step up as a leader and be someone the younger girls can look to. Of course, we\u2019ve got a huge World Cup at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to earn international honours throughout the season and solidify my place in that World Cup squad. It\u2019s a massive year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paige Travis has sealed a return to Women\u2019s Super League outfit St Helens following her departure from NRLW&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-287645","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\/287645","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=287645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}