RUGBY.
Former Crymych and Cardigan rugby player Lowri Truslove starts her second game of the season for the Blues Ladies on the wing tomorrow afternoon and she will be hoping to help secure a first win of the season for her regional team.
Lowri whose dad is the former Cardigan captain and tight head Mark Truslove, has been selected to play against The Dragons at Ystrad Mynach tomorrow afternoon and after two hard fought matches which ended in defeat against the Ospreys and then the Scarlets, Lowri is looking forward to a change in fortunes.
“ I can’t wait for the game and hopefully I will see a bit of ball and a chance to make an impression and help the team get that win.
“ I love rugby and especially playing for the Blues and it is a great experience.”
Lowri, whose family home is in Bwlchygroes near Crymych, is a student at Cardiff Met and is currently studying Sport Studies and regularly plays for the Met first team. She started out with Crymych RFC at aged seven until she was twelve and then she moved to the Cardigan under 15’s team for a season and then on to Carmarthen Quins girls for a couple of seasons before she eventually joining Whitland under18’s.
By this time she was scouted by the Scarlets at under 15’s and eventually moved up into the u18s women’s squad.
She played at the UK School Games in Manchester in 2014 and 2015 and went to Belgium for the European Rugby competition in 2015 with the Wales under 18’s squad before she graduated to senior level and had trials for the Welsh squad but unfortunately didn’t get in.
Her father was a tremendous tight head who was the first name down on the Cardigan team sheet during the nineties and supporters in the Gollop Stand will well remember his golden locks and trademark barnstorming runs which used to leave a succession of would be tacklers in his wake as he walked all over them in Lomu fashion.
Lowri though says she is a bit more subtle with her approach and is looking to run around her markers and to use her speed to good advantage!
She and her team mates have a very tough training regime and her personal schedule includes training on a Monday evening, strength and conditioning on a Tuesday and a Friday plus a training run with the Blues team on a Tuesday evening, followed by a training session on a Thursday night in preparation for a big regional game on a Sunday. She also plays on a Wednesday for the Met in the British Universities competitions.
So hardly surprising that she doesn’t have much time for any other hobbies although she did confess that in between all this training she goes down to the gym to do ‘cardio’ sessions at least twice a week!
Hopefully this training will pay off and she will catch the attention of the current head of Wales Womens rugby Roland Phillips another Welsh speaker born and bred in Pembrokeshire.
Sportsline says good luck to you Lowri with your career and we look forward to catching up with you again soon.