The yet-to-be appointed new coach of Wales girls will report right into a girls’s rugby lead, a task the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) intends to ascertain in 2025.
That new position is being created within the wake of Nigel Walker’s departure because the governing physique’s government director of rugby. Earlier than his exit, Ioan Cunningham left his position as Wales girls head coach.
The governing physique acknowledged: “The excessive profile position will immediately handle the Wales girls head coach in addition to set and implement technique for the ladies’s and women’ sport throughout Wales and type an integral a part of the WRU’s high-performance crew”.
Walker stepped down following what the WRU described as a “meticulous and far-reaching overview” into the high-performance ingredient of the lads’s sport, with Warren Gatland persevering with as head coach of the Wales males’s facet regardless of a document 12-Take a look at dropping run.
Walker, chief government Abi Tierney and chair Richard Collier-Keywood have overseen a turbulent interval within the WRU’s historical past, with Welsh rugby’s governing physique saying in November it might apologise for its dealing with of contract negotiations with the senior girls’s crew after admitting “critical failings”.
Collier-Keywood mentioned that Walker, who was concerned within the preliminary negotiations, had accepted “issues ought to have been performed higher”.
The row got here lower than a yr after a damning impartial overview into the WRU’s tradition following a BBC Wales investigation discovered it was sexist, misogynistic, racist and homophobic, with these facets not correctly challenged.
The WRU has now revealed its full report into its governance of the ladies’s sport.
Because of this, the governing physique additionally introduced: