Womens

By CRL and NZRL Three Canterbury-based players have been selected to represent the Ahi Kā Aotearoa in the second edition of the Harvey Norman Women’s Championship on the Gold Coast next week. Following a successful inaugural campaign in 2023, the team returns to the Championship with a squad of under-21s wāhine selected to represent New…

The Trillo Metals Canterbury Women’s team were again gallant in NZRL National Premiership defeat, closing out their round-robin campaign with a plucky 36-16 loss to Auckland Vulcans on the road at Navigation Homes Park. Canterbury, missing the likes of Sui Pauaraisa for this match, held the Vulcans to three tries apiece in the second half,…

For their second straight game in the 2023 NZRL National Women’s Premiership, a late flurry of tries wasn’t quite enough for the Trillo Metals Canterbury Women’s team as they went down to Wellington Orcas 22-16 at Jerry Collins Park in Porirua on Sunday. Canterbury, coming off the bye, struck late in both halves of the…

The Trillo Metals Canterbury Women’s team produced a gallant campaign-opening comeback against Counties Manukau Stingrays but ultimately came up just short, going down 24-18 at Ngā Puna Wai. After trailing 18-6 at halftime of the Sky Sport National Women’s Premiership Round 1 clash, Canterbury scored three tries to one in the second stanza in a…

Linwood Keas have retained the CRL Women’s Premiership courtesy of a 22-20 Grand Final victory over a valiant Sydenham Swans outfit – the same scoreline that split the rivals in the 2022 decider. The match finished five tries apiece, with the Swans fighting back from eight-point deficits on multiple occasions to take it down to…

The Trillo Metals Canterbury Women’s squad has been named for the upcoming NZRL National Premiership, which gets underway on September 2. The competition returns to its usual post-season place on the calendar after being held in March-April in 2022 in the wake of two COVID-interrupted rep seasons. Canterbury’s most recent assignment was last September, taking…

Sydenham Swans are banking on their blend of experienced premiership-winning stalwarts and exuberant first-timers to regain the CRL Women’s Premiership from Linwood Keas on Happy Hire Grand Final Day at Ngā Puna Wai on Sunday. Champions in 2020-21, the Swans were run down late in a 22-20 thriller in the corresponding showdown last year –…

By the time Linwood Keas run out onto Ngā Puna Wai for the CRL Women’s Premiership Grand Final to face Sydenham Swans, it will have been 42 days since their last game. A combination of weather cancellations, byes and defaults have conspired against the defending champions, who have also taken the field just once in…