Crimson Roses centre Meg Jones has been included on a three-player shortlist for 2025’s Girls’s World Participant of the Yr award alongside Canada’s Sophie de Goede and New Zealand’s Jorja Miller.
Jones has been recognised after beginning 11 of England’s 12 Exams in 2025 and producing constantly glorious defensive and offensive performances from midfield.
The winner – it was Jones’ England team-mate Ellie Kildunne in 2024 – will likely be topped in the course of the trophy presentation ceremony on the Girls’s Rugby World Cup remaining at Allianz Stadium, Twickenham on Saturday between England and Canada in entrance of what’s set to be a record-breaking, sold-out crowd.
Alongside the principle award, Miller (New Zealand), Josifini Neihamu (Fiji) and Braxton Sorensen-McGee (New Zealand) have been nominated for 15s Breakthrough Participant of the Yr.
World Rugby chair Brett Robinson mentioned: “This exceptional Girls’s Rugby World Cup 2025 has demonstrated the easiest of our recreation – the values, the unity, the unimaginable power. On the coronary heart of its success are our gamers, the celebrities of the present, who haven’t solely been distinctive performers on the sector, however who’ve cast an unimaginable bond with followers.
“Today. we are excited to reveal our World Rugby awards nominees in the women’s categories. Congratulations to all, but also to all the players, coaches and match officials who have played their full part in an era-defining year for the sport.”
Nominated for a second time in a Girls’s Rugby World Cup yr, Canada’s De Goede might have moved into the second-row since her return in July after a yr out with an ACL harm, however her affect on matches is unchanged.
She topped the charts for carries, offloads and lineout takes going into the ultimate and has contributed 55 factors to Canada’s trigger, most of them from the tee as a rarity of a goal-kicking ahead.
Miller was topped Girls’s SVNS Participant of the Yr in Might after one other spectacular season with the Black Ferns Sevens. She has made the change to flanker in 15s with ease with 5 tries in six Exams, together with two doubles at RWC 2025.
An explosive game-breaker and regarded by some as a “once-in-a-generation talent”, she may turn out to be the primary participant to win each the 15s and sevens accolades in the identical yr.
What’s subsequent?
England’s Crimson Roses will host Canada within the 2025 Girls’s Rugby World Cup remaining at Twickenham on Saturday September 27 (4pm kick-off).
France will face defending champions New Zealand earlier on the identical day within the Bronze remaining at Twickenham (12.30pm).
