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ULSTERU18GIRLS&SENIORWOMEN JERSEYPRESENTATION

Ulster Senior Women’s summer training programme. Another big thank you to City of Armagh RFC for the use of their facilities that our U18 girls used. The Women and Girls programme was under the direction of Derek Suffern with Neill Alcorn as Head Coach of the Senior Women alongside Paul Heasley (S&C), John Creighton, Peter Weir and Neal Johnston (Manager). Charlie Farrell was Head Coach of the U18s with a coaching team of Zoe Templeton (Backs) and Ruth Sloan (Manager). The coaches are excited to see the development of all players throughout our young squad and the integration of players moving up from our successful U18 setup over the last few seasons. A highlight of this season has to be the U18 girls making it to the final of the interprovincial series for the second time in the four years since it became a competitive interprovincial series.

The players have shown a huge commitment to a very busy summer programme, working tirelessly on and off the pitch to represent their Province. This year, the Women’s and Girls interprovincial series took place at the end of August and throughout September. In a new venture this season, the series had an extended format with three round robin games being played before semi-finals and finals. This has been a great initiative to get all the players more game time at interprovincial level to allow them to develop before returning to their clubs to begin their domestic season. The U18 and senior women’s round robin games were all played as double headers with the first game against Munster being We are delighted to welcome the Ulster U18 Girls and Ulster Senior Women, sponsored by Deloitte, to tonight’s game for their annual Jersey Presentation event.

played in Irish Independent Park before playing Leinster in City of Armagh RFC and Connacht at Queen’s University playing fields. A big thank you is also due to Wallace High School for the use of their facilities, which were used as a base for the

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