The 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup has featured a number of high-scoring games and seven hat-tricks already after just 20 matches.
Let’s take a look at the top try-scorers so far.
6 tries. Julia Schell
Canada full-back Schell shares top spot despite only scoring in one game. Astonishingly all six of her tries came in the second half of her side’s win against Fiji in their opening Pool B match
6 tries. Jess Breach
Having scored twice in England’s opening win over United States, Breach scored her 50th international try against Samoa and went on to score a hat-trick.
She celebrated her 50th cap by adding her sixth in the 47-7 win over Australia in Brighton.
6 tries. Freda Tafuna
United States flanker Tafuna scored twice against Australia and followed that up with four in the 60-0 win over Samoa
6 tries. Francesca McGhie
McGhie scored just 55 seconds into Scotland’s Pool B victory against Wales and finished with a hat-trick. The 22-year-old former ballerina bagged two more in the win over Fiji and another in the defeat by Canada
5 tries. Desiree Miller
Miller scored a hat‑trick in Australia’s 73‑0 win over Samoa and followed that up with two touchdowns in the thrilling 31-31 draw with United States
4 tries. Jorja Miller
Flanker Miller has been one of the stars of the World Cup, scoring two excellent tries in New Zealand’s opening win over Spain and another two against Japan
4 tries. Caitlyn Halse
Teenage full-back Halse, 18, has made a big impression in her first World Cup with a brace of tries against both Samoa and the USA
4 tries. Aseza Hele
Hele scored a hat-trick in South Africa’s comfortable win over Brazil and notched her side’s opening try in the victory over Italy that secured a place in the quarter-finals
3 tries: 10 players
The following have all scored three tries:
Kelsey Clifford (England), McKinley Hunt (Canada), Rhona Lloyd (Scotland) , Sadia Kebeya (England), Ayanda Malinga (South Africa), Lark Atkin-Davies (England), Braxton Sorensen-McGee (New Zealand), Erica Jarrell-Searcy (USA), Adiana Talakai (South Africa) and Hope Rogers (USA)
