England and Trailfinders Ladies again row Abi Burton has been chosen as chair of a landmark management group of PWR gamers.

Burton, who was a part of the Purple Roses squad that received the Womens’ Rugby World Cup in September, will lead the Ladies’s Rugby Board arrange by elite gamers union The Rugby Gamers Affiliation (RPA).

The 25-year-old’s Rugby World Cup triumph got here three years after she needed to be positioned in a coma to deal with a critical immune illness attacking her mind.

“I am actually proud to have been elected chair of the primary Ladies’s Rugby Board,” mentioned Burton.

“It is an necessary alternative to make sure gamers’ voices are heard, and I am wanting ahead to working with the board and the RPA to signify gamers throughout the ladies’s recreation.”

The brand new separate girls’s board will guarantee girls’s gamers are higher represented and ready to answer “particular challenges and alternatives they face” say the RPA.

Bristol Bears and Wales full-back Jenny Hesketh has been elected as vice-chair with Emily Tuttosi, who began for Canada towards England in final yr’s World Cup remaining, chosen as Exeter Chiefs consultant.

The Ladies’s Rugby Board representatives for the 2025–26 season

Bristol Bears: Jenny Hesketh (vice-chair)

Exeter Chiefs: Emily Tuttosi

Gloucester Hartpury: Sam Monaghan

Harlequins: Lagi Tuima

Leicester Tigers: Grace Deane

Loughborough Lightning: Elis Martin

Sale Sharks: Tysh Harper

Saracens: Ella Wyrwas

Trailfinders Ladies: Abi Burton (chair)