News | July 21, 2015 | news
The cruelty and reality of sport is coming home to the Dutch team after their surprise defeat to Portugal on Sunday ended their Olympic hopes. We look back at the Dutch experiment and ask - where next for women's rugby in the Netherlands?
News | March 27, 2015 | news
For the third year running, and the fourth time in five years, Canada have won the Hong Kong 7s after a tournament of surprises and upsets, especially from the hosts.
News | February 24, 2015 | news
Fifty rising stars from five of Europe's most aspirant nations - Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Russia and Belgium - took part in special rugby camp, organised by the RFU, last weekend.
News | February 17, 2015 | news
The Netherlands’ women’s sevens team won the Las Vegas Elite Sevens tournament last weekend – their first tournament win since turning professional in 2011.
News | February 9, 2015 | news
We have heard very little about Dutch sevens recently since the pionering full-time professionals failed to regain their place in the World Series lat September. Theye have suffered from the loss of some of their more experienced players, but despite this remain confident that they can still reach the Olympic Games. The team recently spoke about their progress and challenges for 2015, which start this month.
News | November 28, 2014 | news
With the French Top 8 having a weekend off last week to allow players to prepare for Dubai, we thought we might take a look at club rugby around the rest of the continent. Although Scandinavian and Swiss rugby is on a winter break, fifteens leagues are thriving over much of western Europe.
News | November 2, 2014 | news
The Netherlands won the European Trophy today, and achieved it in a style befitting a country that for centuries has had a reputation for building seawalls to keep out everything nature could throw at them. Following on from that tradition their women’s XV have built an orange wall that nothing in Europe’s second tier can breech.
News | October 31, 2014 | news
Sunday’s Women’s European Trophy final will be a battle of the Low Countries, with hosts Belgium taking on the Netherlands, preceded by a third place play-off between Russia and Switzerland.
News | October 21, 2014 | news
Sweden's national team celebrated its 30th anniversary by inviting Holland to match on Lindängens IP in Malmö. The teams first met in a competitive match in 1984 are two of the world's oldest women's international teams.
News | August 4, 2014 | news
In a surprise announcement, Netherlands' Kelly van Harskamp has annonced her "temporary" retirement from international rugby.
News | June 6, 2014 | news
Next weekend will be busy one for European women’s rugby with 24 teams – all with a theoretical chance of Olympic glory – competing in the Division “A” and Top 12 tournaments in Bergen and Moscow.
News | December 4, 2013 | news
The Dutch Rugby Union (NRB) have announced the appointment of Chris Lane as the new head coach of the Dutch Women’s Rugby Sevens team.
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