Loughborough Lightning (women's rugby union)

Loughborough Lightning
Full nameLoughborough Students Women Rugby Football Club
UnionRugby Football Union
Nickname(s)Lightning
Founded1970s
Ground(s)Loughborough University Franklin's Gardens
Director of RugbyWales
Coach(es)England Nathan Smith
Captain(s)Scotland Rachel Malcolm
League(s)Premiership Women's Rugby
2022–238th
1st kit
2nd kit
Official website
www.lboro.ac.uk/sport/performance/lightning/rugby/
Current season

Loughborough Lightning are a women's rugby union club based in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. They are the Professional women's team of Loughborough Students RUFC and Loughborough University. Together with the netball team and the women's cricket team, the rugby union team is one of three women's sports teams based Loughborough University that use the Loughborough Lightning name.[1] In 2017, they were selected as a franchise for the inaugural Premier 15s season.[2]

  1. ^ "Loughborough Lightning". www.lboro.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  2. ^ "Loughborough given Super Rugby berth". Loughborough Echo. 28 February 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2017.