{"id":526364,"date":"2026-04-12T05:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T05:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/526364\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T05:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T05:55:18","slug":"premier-womens-rugby-wru-to-express-interest-over-team-in-pwr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/526364\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier Women&#8217;s Rugby: WRU to express interest over team in PWR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales have 11 players based at current PWR champions Gloucester-Hartpury, including national captain Kate Williams who said the opportunity was an &#8220;exciting prospect&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It hasn&#8217;t seemed like it&#8217;s been an option before but it could be an option in the future,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There has also been a lack of a high standard domestic rugby in Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Celtic Challenge is looking to address that, with Thunder and Lightning both reaching this year&#8217;s semi-finals, and while the competition is in its infancy, Lynn says it still has a purpose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I do still strongly believe the Celtic Challenge will get there with the investment from Ireland and Scotland, but if we&#8217;ve got an opportunity to put a side in the PWR, we&#8217;ll be looking to show our interest,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leicester and Trailfinders were the last clubs to join the PWR in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales have 11 players based at current PWR champions Gloucester-Hartpury, including national captain Kate Williams who said the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-526364","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\/526364","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=526364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}