{"id":814527,"date":"2026-10-26T15:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T15:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814527\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T15:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T15:38:09","slug":"world-rugby-player-of-the-year-englands-zoe-harrison-and-meg-jones-among-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814527\/","title":{"rendered":"World Rugby Player of the Year: England&#8217;s Zoe Harrison and Meg Jones among nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England duo Zoe Harrison and Megan Jones are among four nominees for World Rugby Women&#8217;s 15s Player of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are nominated alongside Canada&#8217;s DaLeaka Menin and New Zealand&#8217;s Kaipo Olsen-Baker for the award, which recognises exceptional performances during the 2026 season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fly-half Harrison, 28, scored 88 points from the tee for England this year while Red Roses captain Jones, 30, is nominated for a second year in a row &#8211; missing out to Canada&#8217;s Sophie de Goede in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The World Cup-winning pair played important roles in England claiming their eighth successive Women&#8217;s Six Nations title in May, part of a 41-match unbeaten run ended by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cm79p7x79wl9o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">back-to-back defeats by Canada<\/a> this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The winner will be announced following this weekend&#8217;s final WXV Global Series matches, with England facing the United States on Friday (21:15 GMT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere, England&#8217;s Abi Burton has been shortlisted for Women&#8217;s 15s Try of the Year for her try against Australia in the WXV Global Series in September. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England duo Zoe Harrison and Megan Jones are among four nominees for World Rugby Women&#8217;s 15s Player of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-814527","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\/814527","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=814527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}