It’s getting to that time of year where we start to build our senior women’s county squad,

This year we will be holding open trials for the senior women’s squad,

The Berkshire U18 girls trials were recently held and the format worked so well and was a great success so the Berkshire Women’s trials will follow the same format.

Eligibility

Berkshire RFU Women’s Rugby is open to all players who play their Club, College or University rugby in the county

The player was born in the county
OR
The player has completed not less than 6 months Residence within the County concerned in the preceding 12 months;
OR
The player has played or been selected in a match day squad for a County in a previous County Competition
OR
The player is an Effectively Registered Player of a Club allocated to the County on the date of the match
OR
the player has been selected in a County U18s girls match day squad and who was qualified to play for that County under the Regulations then in effect. Any such player shall remain eligible to play for that County until such time as the player qualifies for and plays for another County in any of the County Championship Competitions

2022 Berkshire Women’s Coaches

We are delighted to announce the below coaches who will be taking us through the 2022 county season,

Lewis Jones – Forwards & Head Coach
Ben Radford – Kicking & Backs Coach
Niki Paton – Backs coach 
TBC – Forwards coach 

2022 Open Trials.

Date – 11th February

Location – Abbey RFC

Time – 6:30–9pm

  • Registration and bib collection 6:30pm – 7pm – individual warm up/stretching by all players
  • 7pm – 7:15 Full squad warm up with Coaches.
  • 7:15 – 7.45 Positional skills assessment
  • 7.45 – 8 Get together with your ‘team and team manager/coach’ and prepare for matches
  • 8 – 9 Matches

The session will involve units & positional splits, game based situations & short competitive games.

Please use the link below to register for the trials.

Closing date Thursday 10th February.

https://forms.gle/BxcWFgWZva2CovCb7

Please also share registration link with all players in your club who you believe are eligible and capable of county level for them to apply to trial,

If anyone has any questions on this then please don’t hesitate to send us an email,

We look forward to seeing everyone on the 11th February 2022

Regards

Lewis Jones
Berkshire Women’s Head Coach.