Four Chiefs Named in Red Roses Training Camp Squad

Four Exeter Chiefs Women's players have been named in the first Red Roses training camp of the 2024/25 season.

Maisy Allen, Maddie Feaunati, Nancy McGilivray and Katie Buchanan have all been named with Claudia MacDonald to spend two days in camp before returning to Sandy Park to continue her rehab.

Forty Red Roses will link up for the team’s first training camp of the 2024/25 season today.

John Mitchell’s side ended a successful 2023/24 campaign by earning a third consecutive Guinness Women’s Six Nations Grand Slam in April, adding to the inaugural WXV 1 title secured in New Zealand six months previous.

England will spend five weeks as a collective before attacking the challenge of Six Nations runners-up France and World Champions New Zealand in September.

The squad then head out to Canada for WXV 1 where they will face the hosts, USA and the Black Ferns once again.

Head Coach Mitchell said: “Our first camp of 2024/25 allows us to reset what we stand for and how we will carry ourselves as Red Roses moving forward.

“Our game is working, and we have an opportunity to dial it up again. There is a massive amount of room to improve individually and evolve our game over the next five weeks.”

Sarah Beckett, Grace Clifford, Lizzie Hanlon. Sadia Kabeya, Claudia MacDonald, Connie Powell and Mia Venner will attend the first two days of camp before continuing their rehabilitation back at their clubs.

Megan Jones and Ellie Kildunne, who are currently with the GB Rugby 7s women's squad, will return following the conclusion of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games.

Red Roses Pre-Season Camp 1 Squad

Prop

Sarah Bern (Bristol Bears, 61 caps)

Hannah Botterman (Bristol Bears, 47 caps)

Mackenzie Carson (Gloucester-Hartpury, 15 caps)

Kelsey Clifford (Saracens, 8 caps)

Liz Crake (Trailfinders Women, 2 caps)

Laura Keates (Loughborough Lightning, 62 caps)

Maud Muir (Gloucester-Hartpury, 30 caps)

Simi Pam (Bristol Bears, uncapped)

Hooker

Lark Atkin-Davies (Bristol Bears, 57 caps)

May Campbell (Saracens, 1 cap)

Amy Cokayne (Leicester Tigers, 74 caps)

Lock

Zoe Aldcroft (Gloucester-Hartpury, 53 caps)

Rosie Galligan (Saracens, 16 caps)

Lilli Ives Campion (Loughborough Lightning, uncapped)

Cath O’Donnell (Loughborough Lightning, 30 caps)

Abbie Ward (Bristol Bears, 65 caps)

Back Row

Maisy Allen (Exeter Chiefs, 5 caps)

Georgia Brock (Gloucester-Hartpury, uncapped)

Poppy Cleall (Saracens, 65 caps)

Steph Else (Gloucester-Hartpury, uncapped)

Maddie Feaunati (Exeter Chiefs, 5 caps)

Alex Matthews (Gloucester-Hartpury, 67 caps)

Marlie Packer (Saracens, 104 caps)

Morwenna Talling (Sale Sharks, 13 caps)

Scrum-half

Natasha Hunt (Gloucester-Hartpury, 72 caps)

Lucy Packer (Harlequins, 21 caps)

Ella Wyrwas (Saracens, 6 caps)

Fly-half

Holly Aitchison (Bristol Bears, 30 caps)

Zoe Harrison (Saracens, 49 caps)

Centre

Tatyana Heard (Gloucester-Hartpury, 22 caps)

Nancy McGillivray (Exeter Chiefs, uncapped)

Phoebe Murray (Bristol Bears, uncapped)

Emily Scarratt (Loughborough Lightning, 111 caps)

Back Three

Jess Breach (Saracens, 38 caps)

Katie Buchanan (Exeter Chiefs, uncapped)

Abby Dow (Trailfinders Women, 45 caps)

Emma Sing (Gloucester-Hartpury, 6 caps)

Bo Westcombe-Evans (Loughorough Lightning, uncapped)

Utility back

Sarah McKenna (Saracens, 45 caps)

Helena Rowland (Loughborough Lightning, 29 caps)