Senior XV
Last night Aaron Hunt became the 698th player to be capped for the Royal Navy Rugby Union. He first played for the Senior XV in 2007, is the holder of 8 caps at U23 level and now becomes another of the dual code players having also been capped for the ROyal Navy Rugby League team, the Brothers.
Later in the match Hugo Mitchell-Heggs came off from the replacement bench to win his first cap in his first season of Navy Rugby having only joined the Navy last season.
Many congratulations to both.
Women XV
Though their history is far shorter than that of the Senior XV, the award of caps is equally as important for the Royal Navy’s Womens team. To qualify they the players have had to play six Inter Service matches from a starting point of the 2008/09 season. Six caps were awarded prior to the start of the season with four of them being presented at the Royal Navy Inter Command Tournament. Yesterday Fiesha Green became the seventh member of the RN(W) club of capped players.
The Most Capped RN(W) Player is……..
As mentioned above only four of the first six Navy Women’s caps were presented earlier in the season. Yesterday proved to be a fitting opportunity to present a cap to a fifth member of the original six, Pam Williams. History will look back at a small group of women involved with Navy Rugby who are responsible for ensuring its very survival. Amongst these pioneers will be the name of Pam who has been a loyal and fiercely competitive servant of the woman’s game. The whole team, I am sure, probably shared in Pam’s joy at receiving her cap from Navy Rugby’s President Admiral Sir Trevor Soar. Also by a quirk of selection and with Emma Swinton not coming off the bench Pam became the most capped player in RN(W) history as she was winning her second cap yesterday. Congratulations.
Photographs from RAF Games will be posted over the next few days and will all be done by Sunday night.
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