After enjoying recent success in the Maa Maa’s competition, Guernsey Raiders Ladies are backing another female rugby team who are hoping to encourage more women to try the sport out.
Some of the Guernsey Ladies were in the team that won the Yeovil 10s rugby tournament at the end of August.
The team – called the Maa Maa’s – are tackling the barriers mums face when returning to rugby. They want to raise awareness of the challenges players face with childcare, training, work, and game day logistics.
Guernsey player Daisy Travers has been involved in setting up the Maa Maas and the Instagram account ‘Mums who play rugby’.
Travers, her ex-Bristol teammate Trish Brown, and fellow league mate Annette Bevan, came up with the idea after finding they were all navigating the same challenges while returning to rugby post-partum.
The decision to put together a team from this community started around 12 months ago, and it paid off with their success in the recent Yeovil 10s tournament.
Taking part in that tournament with the Maa Maa’s were five mums from the Channel Islands – Carly Parrot, Tanya Scholtz, Jillian Smith, and Travers from Guernsey and Taye Baokye from Jersey.
The team hopes to arrange more fixtures going forward as well as build on ways to breakdown the barriers for more grassroots mums.
Anyone who is interested or wants to find out more, should check out the Instagram handle @mumswhoplayrugby.