A women’s rugby seven tournaments is coming to Greenlaw.
Stewartry RFC will host the second leg of the Women’s 7 Series, which started last year to help develop players and showcase the game to as wide an audience as possible.
It is set to continue thanks to support from Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC).
The tournament is run by Adrian Henry, a residential safeguarding Officer at SRUC Oatridge, who also owns Rugby People – a rugby photography organisation.
The series will see up to 12 clubs compete over three weekends in June.
Cartha QP in Glasgow will host the first leg on June 3, with Stewartry the hosts the following weekend. The series will conclude at Redford Barracks the following weekend.
The venues have offered their facilities for free, co-sponsors Rugbystore will kit out the officials and SRUC will contribute £1,000 towards the cost of buying trophies and medals for the competition.
Adrian said: “As an associate member of Scottish Rugby, we can run a women’s sevens team, and it was from that, and in discussion with people involved in women’s rugby, it became apparent there was a need for a sevens competition exclusively for the women’s clubs.”
Marketing and student recruitment lead at SRUC, Anouska Curzon, added: “We are excited to be sponsoring this year’s Women’s 7 tournament. With the tournaments being held close to our Barony and Edinburgh campuses, it’s a great opportunity to support women’s rugby and to promote SRUC and our courses to a wider audience.”
For more information about the competition, email adrian@rugbypeople.net.
