On the 4^th October Keele’s Women’s Rugby team were given the amazing opportunity to go and train with the Sale Sharks, a professional rugby team that compete at the highest level of English Rugby, in the Aviva Premiership. Ladies Day was and event set up by Sale and eleven of the KUWRC headed Sale to represent the Athletic Union on the day.

Half past eleven was the meet time and after some food we headed up to South Manchester. Once there, after registration and getting changed we headed out to meet up with other ladies who were attending the day. The 50 of us were put through our paces by the two coaches from Sale. The coaches were keen for us to work on identifying space as well as working on our basic skills but with the high level coaching available the information we received was great and will certainly stand all of the team in good stead for the season. We then finished with a game that was a great way to put the skills we had learnt during the previous drills, into practice. Despite working us very hard, the day was very beneficial for all the girls that attended both the forwards and the backs.  The team would definitely agree with me in saying that the day was full of hard work but it was well worth the trip!  It has provided us with new and interesting training drills that we can now use within our own training sessions back at Keele.  It was a fun 3 hours of Rugby, which allowed you to have a laugh as well as learn lots of new and useful tips. 

After discussions following the session with those who ran the Ladies Day, we are hoping to attend more events at Sale Sharks and also hoping to have our own day in the future held at Keele so that all of our team can be involved and benefit and share in this awesome opportunity!

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