Burton-in-Kendal rugby league star scores try as England cruise to victory 

A rugby league player with local links bagged a try as England Women convincingly beat Wales.

Georgia Wilson, who plays for Wigan Warriors Women in club rugby league, rounded off the scoring in a 62-0 win against the fellow home nation in Neath on Saturday.

Wilson, who was making her first England appearance in three years, secured the penultimate try of the game to make it 54-0.

England racked up 11 tries in total, with Wilson’s Warriors teammate Isabel Rowe scoring 22 of the side’s 62 points.

For manager Stuart Barrow’s team, it is the perfect response after a tough result in March, a 90-4 defeat to Australia.

The game was part of their preparations for the 2026 Women’s Rugby League World Cup down under.

It will be the final Women’s World Cup to take place alongside, and in the same year as, the men’s tournament.

From 2028, the two tournaments will be two years’ apart from each other.

Wilson, who was a guest on Beyond Radio’s Saturday Sport Show in June, made her first England appearance in October 2019 against Australia, and appeared again a month later against Papua New Guinea.

She later played in further international matches, including in a Test series against Canada Ravens in 2022 and other tests versus Wales.

Georgia was born in Burton-in-Kendal and played for Kendal Rugby Club growing up before joining Wigan Warriors Rugby League Club while studying at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston.

While studying, she also played for the Lancaster City FC Ladies.

More recently, Wilson has been involved with the Vale of Lune Rugby Union Club, having coached them on occasion, and also supported, coached and trained Heysham Atoms Rugby League Club after their women’s team were reformed in 2022.

She has had two spells at Warriors, returning to the club last year after just under 18 months out in Australia, where she represented Souths Logan Magpies and Norths Devils.

Wigan Warriors Women have had huge success already this year, winning their first Challenge Cup at Wembley in June with a 42-6 victory over St Helens, and Wilson has continued to be in fine form since, proving crucial to the team’s Nines tournament win in July.

Wilson is also the club’s women’s and girls’ development officer, and since assuming that role, several women’s team games have been part of a double bill at the Brick Community Stadium, attracting thousands of fans.