{"id":20576,"date":"2024-08-01T16:05:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T16:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/kayleigh-powell-wales-international-back-joins-harlequins\/"},"modified":"2024-08-01T16:05:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T16:05:31","slug":"kayleigh-powell-wales-international-back-joins-harlequins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/kayleigh-powell-wales-international-back-joins-harlequins\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayleigh Powell: Wales international back joins Harlequins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Harlequins have signed Wales back Kayleigh Powell for the 2024-25 Premiership Women&#8217;s Rugby season.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Powell joins the club after representing Team GB at the Paris Olympics in rugby sevens, where they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/olympics\/articles\/crg4vl0vz2go\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">reached the last eight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old has been capped 16 times by her country since her debut in 2019 and was given a dual code full-time contract with her nation in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Powell has spent the past four seasons with Quins&#8217; Premiership rivals Bristol Bears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She&#8217;s a skilful and exciting player who brings a wealth of international experience and quality to our squad,&#8221; Quins head coach Ross Chisholm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quins.co.uk\/article\/harlequins-sign-welsh-back-kayleigh-powell\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">told the club website.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She is strong in both attack and defence and is dangerous with ball in hand. We&#8217;re excited to see what Kayleigh can achieve in Quins colours this season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c9r3zvlykp5o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harlequins have signed Wales back Kayleigh Powell for the 2024-25 Premiership Women&#8217;s Rugby season. Powell joins the club after representing Team GB at the Paris Olympics in rugby sevens, where they reached the last eight. The 25-year-old has been capped 16 times by her country since her debut in 2019 and was given a dual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20578,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20576\/revisions\/20578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}