{"id":360504,"date":"2026-01-09T07:48:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360504\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:48:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:48:04","slug":"bristol-bears-add-driven-daniels-to-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360504\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Bears add ‘driven’ Daniels to squad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Experienced Canada<\/a> sevens international Chloe Daniels has joined Premiership Women\u2019s Rugby club Bristol Bears.<\/p>\n

The back, who is capable of playing both fly-half and full-back in 15-a-side rugby, has joined the West Country club with immediate effect.<\/p>\n

She is the second midseason arrival from Canada in as many months at Shaftesbury Park after Pamphinette Buisa<\/a> joined the club in December.<\/p>\n

Daniels was a key member of the Canada team that won an Olympic silver medal at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games and has been a stalwart of the senior women\u2019s sevens set-up since her debut in 2021.<\/p>\n

It will be the first time that Daniels has tested herself in 15-a-side rugby outside of university competition with Queen\u2019s University.<\/p>\n

She returned for the Gaels at the latter end of 2025 after a year out with an ACL injury and helped the side win the OUA Women\u2019s Rugby Championship<\/a> and to bronze in the U SPORTS Women\u2019s Rugby Championship.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old joins a Bears backline that contains Black Ferns playmaker Ruahei Demant<\/a>, Scotland<\/a> international Emma Orr<\/a>, Welsh star Jasmin Joyce-Butchers, and up-and-coming talents Reneeqa Bonner<\/a> and Millie David.<\/p>\n

After eight rounds Bristol are second-bottom in the PWR<\/a> table and have not registered a point since their Round 2 victory over Leicester Tigers.<\/p>\n

Scott Lawson, Bristol Bears<\/a> head coach, said: \u201cChloe is a proven international performer with a real X-factor. Her speed, decision-making and work ethic really stood out to us, and she has the ability to change games in an instant.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeyond her on-field qualities, she\u2019s a driven professional who will raise standards within our environment. We\u2019re incredibly excited to welcome her to Bristol.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daniels said: \u201cI\u2019m absolutely thrilled to be joining Bristol Bears Women. The club has a strong identity, ambitious goals and a great reputation for developing players.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to bringing my sevens experience into the fifteens game, learning from the coaches and players, and contributing everything I can to the team\u2019s success.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Experienced Canada sevens international Chloe Daniels has joined Premiership Women\u2019s Rugby club Bristol Bears. The back, who is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-360504","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\/360504","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=360504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}