It was a busy studio this morning as Tom was joined by Ruby Hughes, Stella Hughes, Penelope Neighbor, Katie Frank, Victoria Wise and Alessia Hancock from the RCL rugby club along with their coach April Jiang, who came to talk about the RCL Ladies Day that is happening on the 5th of March.
In order to encourage more girls and women to play sport, the Rugby Club de Luxembourg is running a Rugby/Touch experience on Sunday 5th March from 10am-1pm. Girls and women from 8yrs upwards are invited to come to the Boy Konen terrain to try out the sport of Rugby contact and Touch. Most women think of Rugby as a male dominated sport. In fact the non contact form called Touch Rugby is ideally suited to women and in countries such as Australia and New Zealand is one of the main female sports. Here Luxembourg RCL has 28 girls & women playing, and Walferdange Ladies provides an opportunity for women's contact Rugby.
This taster will consist of some activities that illustrate the skills and fun of rugby. This will be followed by some short games of Touch to get a feel for how the game is played. As Touch is a very limited contact sport, they will be playing mixed age games, so Mums, daughters, friends can all play together. No specialist equipment is needed, just a pair of trainers/running shoes and a desire for fun.
Players can find more information and sign up at www.rcl.lu or by emailing info@rcl.lu