LIONESSES HERITAGE NUMBERS REVEALED!

08 March 2024

Landmark announcement on International Women’s Day!

Today is International Women’s Day 2024, a date on which we are proud to reveal our Swinton Lionesses Heritage Numbers!

The anniversary is further significant, as it was on International Women’s Day in 2020 that our Lionesses were officially formed, just a matter of days before the first Covid-19 lockdown came into force.

For that first year against the backdrop of the pandemic, our inaugural squad could only get to know each other through online meetings, but eventually they played their first games in May 2021 within the RFL Merit League.

In 2022 our Lionesses won promotion from League 1 to the Championship, in which they competed in 2023. Now as the 2024 season draws near, they are set to take part in a new-look League 1, in which our opponents will include the likes of Hull FC, Wakefield Trinity, Widnes Vikings and Leigh Miners Rangers. Some double-headers with the Lions are planned, so please keep an eye on our social media!

Qualification for a Heritage Number is simple – each player must have played at least one game, for the senior team, in a competition fixture. Heritage Numbers are then allocated on the basis of the date order of their debut, and when more than one player makes their debut in the same game, alphabetical order determines the number order. Heritage Number 1 is allocated to Rebecca Roden to signify the fact that she captained the team in the Lionesses’ first-ever match.

So far to date we can celebrate the first 54 players to have worn the Swinton Lionesses jersey with pride – with many more likely to follow over the coming seasons!

A happy 4th Anniversary to the Swinton Lionesses!

SWINTON LIONESSES
Heritage Numbers
1 Rebecca Roden
2 Patrycja Baraneck
3 Leah Christian
4 Ashley Deas
5 Sophie Fetherston
6 Holly Grimes
7 Emily Haley
8 Maddison Higson
9 Skye Johnson
10 Chloe Latham
11 Jo Mullins
12 Abbie Parkes-Holden
13 Helena Ryan
14 Emily Swift
15 Ellie Thirkell
16 Ellie Walsh
17 Maddison Corrigan
18 Carla Taylor
19 Chloe Birkett
20 Mollie Scotson
21 Isabel Birds
22 Catherine Sweeney
23 Eve Ashcroft
24 Mia Atherton
25 Daisy Pearson
26 Georgia Cunliffe
27 Molly Ross
28 Caitlin Price
29 Libby Curran
30 Morgan Corrigan
31 Heather Neil
32 Sophie Ratcliffe
33 Sophie Sykes
34 Madeline Trickett
35 Siobhan Turner
36 Chloe Burgess
37 Elizabeth Davies
38 Pebbles Whailing-Mills
39 Madelaine Higginson
40 Caitlin Miles
41 Maz Kane
42 Fatin Najwa
43 Lydia Elstone
44 Rhianna Scott
45 Abi Collins
46 Ruby Collins
47 Katie Garry
48 Summer Harris
49 Laura Bent
50 Darcey Price
51 Lottie Meacham
52 Tyler Moses
53 Mollee-Ann Pickering
54 Ellise Wright

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