Rugby Australia (RA) has introduced the appointment of a ladies’s high-performance supervisor, two days after coming underneath fireplace from Wallaroos gamers.
Key factors:
- RA names Jamie Fernandez as its ladies’s high-performance supervisor
- The Wallaroos declare there are inequalities in program funding and resourcing
- Fernandez beforehand labored for Rowing Australia
The Wallaroos — Australia’s 15-a-side ladies’s nationwide staff — on Sunday offered a united entrance in taking to social media with a press release lashing RA.
They claimed there have been inequities between the funding and assets within the ladies’s and males’s nationwide packages and stated their staff had been lied to by RA.
In response to the criticism, RA admitted on Monday that they had a “approach to go” to enhance circumstances for the Wallaroos and pledged to maintain gamers concerned of their plans.
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On Tuesday, RA introduced it had partnered with World Rugby to welcome three-time Olympic rower and Sydney 2000 silver medallist Jaime Fernandez into the newly created ladies’s high-performance supervisor position.
Fernandez was most lately deputy efficiency director at Rowing Australia, the place he achieved international excellence in his growth of pathway and Olympic athletes alike throughout 11 years with the organisation.
The retired Olympic rower – who received silver within the males’s eight on the Sydney 2000 Video games — will work throughout the Wallaroos, Tremendous W and ladies’s pathways packages.
“Jaime has a confirmed observe document over greater than a decade at Rowing Australia,” RA chief govt Phil Waugh stated in a press release.
“We sit up for drawing on his distinctive expertise to additional enhance our nationwide ladies’s packages.”
Fernandez will formally begin on September 11.
RA is the primary union to associate with World Rugby on Speed up, a brand new international framework for progress and focused funding that can quick observe the event of ladies’s rugby each on and off the sphere.
As a part of this funding underneath the Speed up program, RA stated it was additionally dedicated to recruiting a full-time Wallaroos head coach for the 2024 season.
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