Pioneering Lionesses take historic story into classrooms
By DAVID ROGERS
MEMBERS of the trailblazing 1996 Great Britain Women’s Rugby League team have helped to deliver an innovative schools programme that has taken their incredible story into classrooms across Yorkshire.
Tourists Jill Adams, Lucy Ferguson and Joanna Carr-Will were part of the initiative between the Women in Rugby League heritage project and schools programme Literacy Kicks.
Funded by a grant from Sporting Heritage, it saw pupils in Featherstone, Hull and Doncaster learn how the Lionesses raised their own funds with little support to become the first ever touring female Rugby League side - before beating Australia 2-1 after losing the first Test in a gripping series.