SYDNEY, – Olympic sevens champion Charlotte Caslick was named in Australia’s squad for the tenth ladies’s Rugby World Cup on Monday regardless of being below an damage cloud after having surgical procedure on her ankle final month.
The fullback is one in all three gamers who will journey to England for the August 22 – September 27 event below an damage cloud together with Brianna Hoy and Siokapesi Palu.
Prop Hoy is working her manner again from knee surgical procedure and has not performed for Australia to date this yr, whereas skipper Palu, who performs within the again row or centres, has been battling a foot damage.
The eighth-ranked Wallaroos, whose greatest end on the World Cup was a run to the semi-finals in 2010, accomplished their preparations for the event with a document 36-5 win over Wales final Friday.
Practically half of coach Jo Yapp’s 32-woman squad might be competing at their first World Cup however 17 gamers are returning after participating within the 2022 event in New Zealand, the place they had been knocked out within the quarter-finals by England.
Among the many World Cup debutants are 18-year-old fullback Caitlyn Halse and 17-year-old exterior again Waiaria Ellis, who might be vying to grow to be the youngest Wallaroo to play at a World Cup.
“We now have a really particular group of individuals inside this squad, numerous in tradition and a spread of ages and ranges of expertise within the recreation,” Yapp mentioned in a information launch.
“A World Cup is the head occasion in sport and girls’s rugby will showcase that in England later this month. We’re able to carry out on the worldwide stage and thank everybody who’s supporting us on and off the sector.”
Australia first supplied part-time contracts to their ladies’s gamers two years in the past and have been working in direction of fulltime offers for normal internationals.
The Wallaroos kick off their marketing campaign towards Samoa in Manchester on August 23 and in addition play america and top-ranked hosts England in a troublesome Pool A. Squad: Forwards – Katalina Amosa, Bree-Anna Browne, Adiana Talakai, Faliki Pohiva, Emily Chancellor, Annabelle Codey, Piper Duck, Ashley Fernandez, Brianna Hoy, Asoiva Karpani, Lydia Kavoa, Kaitlan Leaney, Michaela Leonard, Ashley Marsters, Tania Naden, Bridie O’Gorman, Siokapesi Palu, Tabua Tuinakauvadra. Backs – Charlotte Caslick, Desiree Miller, Faitala Moleka, Waiaria Ellis, Caitlin Urwin, Samantha Wooden, Georgina Friedrichs, Caitlyn Halse, Tia Hinds, Layne Morgan, Trilleen Pomare, Cecilia Smith, Maya Stewart.
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