Wales have appointed Sean Lynn as head coach of their ladies’s senior aspect on a three-year contract, the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) confirmed on Monday.
Lynn coached Gloucester-Hartpury to consecutive Premiership Girls’s Rugby (PWR) titles in 2023 and 2024. He replaces Ioan Cunningham, who stood down final November after a lean 12 months that noticed wales win 4 of 11 video games and end final within the Girls’s Six Nations.
Lynn will stay in his position with the membership aspect till the tip of the PWR season and mix duties, taking cost of the nationwide group for the primary time towards England on March 29.
“I am Welsh and I am coming dwelling and you do not want me to inform you what this implies to me,” Lynn mentioned in a press release. “Being the Wales head coach is the head and I stay up for taking over a task with a squad of proficient and thrilling gamers.
“We’ve a Six Nations marketing campaign and Rugby World Cup to organize for in what guarantees to be the largest 12 months within the historical past of Girls’s rugby. It is an thrilling time with the prospect of a Take a look at match towards the Crimson Roses on the dwelling of Welsh rugby, Principality Stadium, on March twenty ninth.
“We’ve work to do however having coached, and coached towards, the Welsh internationals in England, I do know we’ve got the gamers to make the nation proud.”
Abi Tierney, WRU CEO, added: “Sean Lynn’s appointment underlines the significance of and the way we would like the Wales Girls’s senior nationwide aspect to progress. His means as a coach is second to none as he has proved with two back-to-back titles within the PWR.”
