Gold medal Olympian and TV personality Sam Quek visited Hove to see local grass roots rugby in action

Sam Quek joins Hove R.F.C.’s Allianz Inner Warrior camp as club and RFU seek to grow the sport in the region

Transcript

00:00 Hi, so I'm Vicky Alexander and I am the women and girls growth activator for the South of England. I work for England rugby and

00:06 today I'm at Hove Rugby Club and we are at the beginning of our launch window of our Allianz Inner Warrior series and

00:14 Hove Rugby Club are hosting the very first one and today we've got a special guest. We've got Sam Quick

00:19 GB hockey star coming down to give rugby a try and to also encourage other women to come down and give rugby a try for

00:26 the first time

00:28 So since the launch of the Allianz Inner Warrior

00:30 camps in 2017

00:33 we've had over

00:35 25,000 women across the country that have been involved in one of our Allianz Inner Warrior camps and

00:42 and today to date we've had

00:45 209 camps register across the country and over the next two weeks there will be a camp running

00:52 somewhere within sort of a 10 to 20 mile radius of where you are. So I would have a look on findrugby.com

00:58 Find your local Allianz Inner Warrior camp and get on down and give rugby a try

01:02 So I'm a little bit out of breath because I've just been running around with some fabulous players out there

01:07 I'm at Hove Rugby Club doing the Allianz Inner Warrior camp and so far it's been really welcoming

01:14 really good fun and ultimately I'm learning a new skill and

01:18 ultimately it's down to these ladies. They're all fab and I'm getting called in by the coach so I better go. Don't want to get in trouble

01:23 [Football sounds]