WHEN ASKED to select three photos that mean something to her for a team social, you might expect Helena Rowland to include an image from this year’s Six Nations Grand Slam campaign or last year’s Olympics, or perhaps the all-conquering Welwyn team she played in alongside current team-mates Zoe Harrison and Hannah Botterman as a teenager. Instead, the 23-year-old chose one of her immediate family, one of her granny and one of her schoolfriends.
So nothing from her rugby career? “I wanted to stay away from that,” she says. “Otherwise you’re just known for rugby and that’s you. My schoolfriends aren’t really into sport, so it’s a completely different side of things. I like the fact that I’m almost away from rugby with them and don’t have to talk about it all the time. We’re a close-knit group and do different things.
“I obviously love the sport, I love playing it and I like watching games,
