Premiership Women’s Rugby (PWR), England’s elite league for women’s 15-a-side rugby union, is still semi-professional.
A large number of the players who will be representing England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Italy in the upcoming Women’s Six Nations hail from PWR teams.
What’s more, a lot of the other PWR athletes, the ones who do not play international rugby, have other jobs. There is no title sponsor for the league yet and there will be no prize money to offer the champions of this month’s PWR final.
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But for the past three months, the league has boasted the superstar of world rugby.
Ilona Maher is the self-made megastar with more followers (8.4million) across Instagram
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