Five Loughborough Lightning players have been selected by the Red Roses ahead of their first camp of 2024.
Head coach John Mitchell has included Daisy Hibbert-Jones, Lilli Ives Campion, Sadia Kabeya, Cath O’Donnell and Helena Rowland for the 38-player squad that is meeting at St George’s Park for three days from Monday 22 January.
No. 8 Hibbert-Jones earned her first senior England cap during last autumn’s WXV while Kabeya, who missed out on that tournament due to injury, is included as the flanker bids to add to her 13 caps in the Six Nations and 20-year-old uncapped second row Ives Campion is also included.
Second row O’Donnell is the most experienced of the Lightning players called up with 30 caps, just ahead of versatile back Rowland, who has amassed 28 Red Roses caps.
Mitchell said: “We are excited to come together for our first camp of 2024 and build on the positive experience of WXV and introduce some new people to what we are about. It is our first opportunity to revisit what we value, update our athletic profiling data of the group and re-focus on where our game is working and where we take it to next.”
Red Roses 38-player training squad
Forwards (21)
Maisy Allen (Exeter Chiefs, 5 caps)
Lark Atkin-Davies (Bristol Bears, 54 caps)
Sarah Beckett (Gloucester-Hartpury, 34 caps)
Hannah Botterman (Bristol Bears, 42 caps)
Mackenzie Carson (Gloucester-Hartpury, 10 caps)
Kelsey Clifford (Saracens, 3 caps)
May Campbell (Saracens, 1 cap)
Rosie Galligan (Saracens, 14 caps)
Lizzie Hanlon (Exeter Chiefs, uncapped)
Daisy Hibbert-Jones (Loughborough Lightning, 1 cap)
Lilli Ives Campion (Loughborough Lightning, uncapped)
Sadia Kabeya (Loughborough Lightning, 13 caps)
Sharifa Kasolo (Saracens, uncapped)
Alex Matthews (Gloucester-Hartpury, 62 caps)
Maud Muir (Gloucester-Hartpury, 25 caps)
Gabriella Nigrelli (Bristol Bears, uncapped)
Cath O’Donnell (Loughborough Lightning, 30 caps)
Marlie Packer (Saracens, 99 caps)
Ellena Perry (Gloucester-Hartpury, 10 caps)
Connie Powell (Harlequins, 14 caps)
Abbie Ward (Bristol Bears, 61 caps)
Backs (17)
Holly Aitchison (Bristol Bears, 25 caps)
Sophie Bridger (Saracens, 2 caps)
Jess Breach (Saracens, 33 caps)
Katie Buchanan (Exeter Chiefs, uncapped)
Merryn Doidge (Exeter Chiefs, uncapped)
Abby Dow (Trailfinders Women, 40 caps)
Sydney Gregson (Saracens, 3 caps)
Tatyana Heard (Gloucester-Hartpury, 18 caps)
Natasha Hunt (Gloucester-Hartpury, 67 caps)
Megan Jones (Leicester Tigers, 16 caps)
Ellie Kildunne (Harlequins, 38 caps)
Claudia MacDonald (Exeter Chiefs, 32 caps)
Lucy Packer (Harlequins, 16 caps)
Amber Reed (Bristol Bears, 67 caps)
Helena Rowland (Loughborough Lightning, 28 caps)
Emma Sing (Gloucester-Hartpury, 6 caps)
Ella Wyrwas (Saracens, 6 caps)
Unavailable for camp due to injury:
Zoe Aldcroft (Gloucester-Hartpury, 48 caps)
Amy Cokayne (Leicester Tigers, 72 caps)
Lizzie Duffy (Sale Sharks, uncapped)
Zoe Harrison (Saracens, 46 caps)
Emily Scarratt (Loughborough Lightning, 108 caps)
Morwenna Talling (Sale Sharks, 11 caps)
Unavailable for Guinness Women’s Six Nations due to injury:
Sarah Bern (Bristol Bears, 61 caps)
Nancy McGillivray (Exeter Chiefs, uncapped)
