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Ilona Maher: Bristol Bears star says rugby union wants tradition shift to create stars and develop the sport
The Tycoon Herald > Sports > Ilona Maher: Bristol Bears star says rugby union wants tradition shift to create stars and develop the sport
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Ilona Maher: Bristol Bears star says rugby union wants tradition shift to create stars and develop the sport

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Ilona Maher says that rugby union has to shift tradition and mindset if it’ll evolve as a sport.

With greater than eight million followers throughout Instagram and TikTok, 28-year-old United States worldwide again Maher is the world’s most adopted rugby participant on social media.

She rose to fame on social media by way of combining messages of physique positivity and feminine empowerment along with her signature sharp sense of humour, and was additionally runner-up on Dancing with the Stars – the American equal of Strictly Come Dancing.

Presently enjoying Premiership Girls’s Rugby with Bristol Bears on a three-month contract, Maher hopes to be a part of the USA’s World Cup squad in England later this yr.

And he or she has already made a substantial impression within the west nation, serving to to draw a club-record crowd for a ladies’s sport when she made her debut towards Gloucester-Hartpury at Ashton Gate.

“It is great having all these record numbers, but what we want is for them to keep coming back for the next game. One and done is not enough,” Maher mentioned throughout a press convention that had a neighborhood, nationwide and American media presence.

“I’m sprinkling a bit of bit right here. However we want individuals to maintain coming. It isn’t simply me alone.

Ilona Maher: Bristol Bears star says rugby union wants tradition shift to create stars and develop the sport
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A club-record crowd for a ladies’s sport flocked to Ashton Gate to look at Maher’s debut towards Gloucester-Hartpury

“There is something special happening not just in England, but around the world in women’s sport and women’s rugby. My message is if I am what gets someone to experience rugby, then great. I want more people to play and watch.

“We’re a really stoic sport in a means. I’d like to see extra personalities within the males’s sport.

“You see it a little bit with a player like Joe Marler, but I can’t think of many others who have that. I wish they could show that more.

“There’s a tradition in rugby we have to shift. It is a tremendous sport, but additionally an outdated sport the place the identical issues have been taking place for years.

“We keep talking about how do we get young people into the game. Those people are online. We have to shift our mindset if the sport is going to evolve.”

Ilona Maher with dance partner ALan Bersten on Dancing with the Stars
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Maher with dance accomplice Alan Bersten on Dancing with the Stars

England is about to stage the largest ladies’s Rugby World Cup throughout August and September, with an 82,000 sold-out ultimate at Allianz Stadium being the focused crescendo.

Venues from the north-east to south-west will stage video games, and two-time Olympian Maher added: “More women need to use it to get themselves out there.

“I went into the Olympics (she was a part of the USA’s sevens squad) figuring out persons are made by it – Simone Biles, Michael Phelps.

“I went into Paris knowing I had the chance to make myself and went in with a plan to post loads of videos. Can we go into the World Cup with a plan for players to post more videos?

“I wish to present you are able to do each – play good rugby and publish good movies. All of us have a accountability to capitalise on this World Cup.

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Maher gained rugby sevens Olympic bronze with the US at Paris 2024

“Where I come from in America, NFL footballers are making millions of dollars when they sign their first deal. We always talked about getting sponsorship, without knowing how to do it.

“I realised there was a unique technique to do it. I’m not going to signal a million-dollar or a six-figure contract wherever. We have to go about it another way.

“It has to be on us doing more. I saw how useful social media can be, and I think what sets the women’s game apart is we are comfortable showing our personalities.

“I feel the boys’s sport has so many wonderful gamers, however they don’t seem to be actually displaying their personalities off it. We have to get extra individuals in to look at our sport.”

Maher has already acquainted herself with trips to the Cotswolds, roast dinners, sausage rolls and flat whites – Glastonbury, Cardiff and Scotland are also on her to-do list – and her impact has proved considerable.

“Placing your self out there may be the way you get connections with individuals,” she said. “If we speak about we would like extra funding, we would like extra extra this, now we have to place ourselves on the market for that.

“If we want this to grow, it is on us. We have to do more, that is just the simple fact of it.”

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