The Irish Rugby Soccer Union (IRFU) has introduced the appointment of Lynne Cantwell as Head of Girls’s Technique for Irish Rugby.
Cantwell is probably the most capped participant in Irish ladies’s rugby historical past with 86 appearances and brings in depth expertise to the function. The 43-year-old will take up her new place in January 2025.
Throughout her profession she performed a key half in Eire’s Six Nations Grand Slam win and their historic victory over New Zealand, in addition to reaching the Rugby World Cup semi-final in 2014.
She’s going to depart her present function as Girls’s Excessive Efficiency Supervisor for South African Rugby after doing a ‘phenomenal’ job on the union’s ladies’s programme.
“I’m enthusiastic about becoming a member of the IRFU at a time when there may be a lot dedication and optimism across the Girls’s sport. Having began my very own rugby profession via the membership and home sport in Eire, I’m passionate concerning the journey for ladies and women taking over and taking part in the game and guaranteeing they expertise a pathway from backside to high that allows them to achieve their full potential,” mentioned Cantwell.
“I’m grateful to the IRFU for facilitating me in concluding a few of my work with the SARU throughout a transitionary interval. I’m trying ahead to getting began within the New 12 months.”
IRFU Chief Government, Kevin Potts, says: “Welcoming Lynne to Irish Rugby as Head of Girls’s Technique is a large step in our journey, and I imagine a significant assertion of intent about our collective ambition for Girls’s Rugby in Eire.
“Lynne’s management, each on and off the sphere, is exemplary and we’re excited concerning the impression she can have in advancing Girls’s Rugby throughout Eire and internationally within the coming years.”
Cantwell joined SA Rugby in February 2021 and has been lauded by the union for her work. SA Rugby President Mark Alexander mentioned: “The impression Lynne has had since she joined SA Rugby to resurrect the ladies’s programme was phenomenal, to say the least,” mentioned Mr Alexander.
“Our need and mission to raise the ladies’s sport was clear, however that was solely be made doable by Lynne’s unrelenting ardour and imaginative and prescient to get that job performed. Her huge institutional information of girls’s rugby and worldwide status opened new avenues for us and confirmed the best way to so many constructive outcomes.”
