With the Women’s Six Nations underway,
England prop Shaunagh Brown shares the story of her route into professional rugby, plus her diary of a week in the Red Roses’ training camp
Shaunagh Brown didn’t play rugby properly until she was 25, but is now in the privileged position, as she calls it, of being one of the few professional women’s rugby players in the world. The tighthead prop, who hails from Peckham in south
London, plays for Harlequins as well as England and splits her time as a professional athlete training and playing for club and country.
England’s women’s national rugby team, known as the Red Roses, turned professional in January 2019 and since then has had 28 full-time contracted players in the professional squad per year, plus a handful of players on part-time contracts.