Loughborough Lightning (women's rugby union)

Loughborough Lightning are a women's rugby union club based in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. They are the women's team of Loughborough Students RUFC and Loughborough University. Together with the netball team and the women's cricket team, the rugby union team is one of three women's sports teams based Loughborough University that use the Loughborough Lightning name. [1]

Loughborough Lightning
Full nameLoughborough Students Women Rugby Football Club
UnionRFUW
Nickname(s)Lightning
Founded1970s

History

LSWRFC were initially founded in the late 1970s during a boom in women playing rugby at universities across England.[2] In 1983, Loughborough Students were one of the founder members of the Women's Rugby Football Union, set up to regulate women's rugby throughout the British Isles.[3] Two years later, they hosted the American touring Wiverns rugby team and provided a number of players to the Midlands Select XV that played against the Wiverns on their tour.[4] In 2009, Loughborough worked with the Nottingham Rugby Union in order to promote more men coming to Loughborough matches.[5] When the British Universities and Colleges Sport rugby union leagues were formed in 2004, Loughborough won the league for the first three consecutive years.[6]

References
  1. "Loughborough Lightning". www.lboro.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  2. Collins, Tony (2009). A Social History of English Rugby Union. Routledge. p. 94. ISBN 1134023359.
  3. "Women's Rugby: A work in progress" (PDF). RFU. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  4. "Wiverns '85 – the tour that changed the game". Scrum Queens. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  5. "Lightning teach rugby men new moves". Loughborough Echo. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  6. "BUCScore – Loughborough University Womens 1st Rugby Union Team". BUCS. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
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