Ashleigh Baxter, Ireland Women

Ireland Women’s Sevens look to build in Las Vegas.

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There has been a bit of controversy surrounding Ireland Women’s participation in the World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series following the late withdrawal of Alison Miller, Sene Naoupu and Hannah Tyrrell from the Ireland Women’s Squad to compete in the Las Vegas leg of the sevens series. 

With that in mind we thought we’d give you a bit of background on this heavily sponsored competition. 

The World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series, known as the HSBC Women’s World Rugby Sevens Series for sponsorship reasons and as a the #WSWS (Women’s Sevens World Series) for hashtag reasons is a series of international rugby union sevens tournaments for women’s national teams run, and heavily promoted, by World Rugby. 

World Rugby look at both the Men’s and Women’s seven series as a means of spreading rugby to countries throughout the world that don’t have a rugby heritage. It provides a nice daily package of high scoring games that appeals to sponsors and broadcasters, though it doesn’t always generate big crowds. 

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