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Why Women’s Rugby is Growing in Leaps, Bounds, Scrums, & Kicks

Aug 24, 2016

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Ebrahim Moolla

in Archive, BrightRock Plays the Bounce, Landing that Job, Life Event

World Rugby has revealed that the number of registered female players worldwide rocketed by 32,34% between 2014 and 2015. In 2015, there were 76 046 more registered female rugby players than in 2014, for a grand total of 311 204.
Thanks Mom, for Teaching Me to Love Sport & Ignore the Haters

May 31, 2016

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by

Antoinette Muller

in Archive, BrightRock Plays the Bounce, Landing that Job, Life Event, Starting a Family

The representation of a sport-loving female demographic was always prevalent, thanks to my mom. I never felt weird or threatened for loving sport, because to me, it was just the normal thing to do even if you were a woman.