Women: Baxter and Boles in 7’s Squads

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It’s wall to wall women’s rugby for the next couple of weeks at the FRU and we’ll find time somewhere along the way to keep an eye on Cooke’s Ashleigh Baxter and Enniskillen’s Claire Boles as they compete in World Sevens Women’s Series in Dubai. 

Baxter continues her involvement with the Sevens programme for the time being though I expect her and Miller, at least, to be withdrawn later next year to concentrate on the XV’s game ahead of #2017WRWC. This gives Boles and the rest of the players in the Development Squad everything to play for as their should be a few additional spaces opening up alongside those created by player attrition. 

We’ve written plenty about the wonderfully driven Baxter over the years and I must say that when I watched Boles go in for her try against Munster in the Ulster Women’s U18 Grand Slam decider there were lot of similarities between her and a young Baxter that led me to choose Boles as the FRU Player of the Game.  

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