Lilli Ives Campion and Mia Venner will make their full Purple Roses debuts when England kick off their Girls’s Six Nations marketing campaign in opposition to Italy in York on Sunday.
Loughborough Lightning lock Ives Campion earned her first cap in September’s 38-19 WXV warm-up victory over France, whereas Gloucester-Hartpury wing Venner’s maiden worldwide got here as a 17-year-old in 2020.
There is a return on the wing for Exeter Chiefs’ Claudia MacDonald and at full-back for Gloucester-Hartpury’s high factors scorer Emma Sing after their respective 16-month absences for England.
Harlequins scrum-half Lucy Packer and Loughborough Lightning’s Helena Rowland kind the half-back partnership, whereas Holly Aitchison and Emily Scarratt are paired at centre.
Rosie Galligan companions Ives Campion within the second row, behind props Kelsey Clifford and Maud Muir and hooker Amy Cokayne within the entrance row.
Zoe Aldcroft, who will captain the Purple Roses from blindside flanker, is joined within the again row by vice-captain Marlie Packer and No 8 Maddie Feaunati.
Uncapped duo Flo Robinson and Jade Shekells are in line to earn their first Purple Roses caps from the bench.
Purple Roses group to play Italy
England: 15 Emma Sing, 14 Mia Venner, 13 Emily Scarratt, 12 Holly Aitchison, 11 Claudia MacDonald, 10 Helena Rowland, 9 Lucy Packer; 1 Kelsey Clifford, 2 Amy Cokayne, 3 Maud Muir, 4 Rosie Galligan, 5 Lilli Ives Campion, 6 Zoe Aldcroft (capt), 7 Marlie Packer, 8 Maddie Feaunati.
Replacements: 16 Might Campbell, 17 Hannah Botterman, 18 Sarah Bern, 19 Abbie Ward, 20 Sadia Kabeya, 21 Flo Robinson, 22 Jade Shekells, 23 Ellie Kildunne.
The 2025 Girls’s Six Nations takes place between March 22 and April 26
Girls’s Six Nations fixtures
Saturday March 22
Eire vs France, 1pm
Scotland vs Wales, 4.45pm
Sunday March 23
England vs Italy, 3pm
Saturday March 29
France vs Scotland, 1pm
Wales vs England, 4.45pm
Sunday March 30
Italy vs Eire, 3pm
Saturday April 12
France vs Wales, 12.45pm
Eire vs England, 4.45pm
Sunday April 13
Scotland vs Italy, 3pm
Saturday April 19
Italy vs France, 1pm
England vs Scotland, 4.45pm
Sunday April 20
Wales vs Eire, 3pm
Saturday April 26
Italy vs Wales, 12.15pm
Scotland vs Eire, 2.30pm
England vs France, 4.45pm
