Former Ireland international Tania Rosser has been named the new head coach of Leinster women.
Succeeding Phil de Barra, who took the reins from Ben Armstrong last July, she becomes the first female head coach of the Leinster women's team.
Rosser, who represented Leinster as a player for ten years, is a New Zealand-born ex-Irish international in both 15s and 7s. She's also pulled on an Ireland jersey in netball.
She won 58 caps for Ireland and featured in three World Cups, earning her 50th cap in the famous defeat of the country of her birth, the Black Ferns, at the 2014 World Cup.
"I'm really excited," said Rosser. "It's a huge honour and privilege to be here to coach the Leinster women's team.
"I played for many years for them so I know how important it is for the development of the girls and I'm just super excited and can't wait to get started."
Rosser recently coached the Clontarf FC J1s and was head coach of the Blackrock College RFC women's team for a number of years. She's previously been involved in the Leinster women set-up as an assistant coach to Philip Doyle.
Over the coming months she will finalise her coaching team and will make contact with clubs around the 12 counties of Leinster, before hosting trials ahead of the Vodafone Women's Interprovincial Series, which is due to take place later in 2022.
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