The Western Mail's Carolyn Hitt speaks to Wales international Gemma Hallett about her reasons for playing rugby.
"Welsh women’s rugby international Gemma Hallett took up the game because of her grandmother. The Pontypridd-born lock relishes family stories of her “nan screaming and yelling at the television, too nervous to sit, too anxious to stand still during the halcyon days of the ’70s. I grew up determined to make my nan proud of my own rugby exploits,” she says.
"When Gemma’s nan was shouting at men in sideboards she couldn’t have dreamed her granddaughter would be part of a Welsh rugby team playing in the World Cup that kicked off yesterday. Welsh women did actually play rugby in the 1970s but there was no formal infrastructure until the formation of the Women’s Rugby Football Union in 1983. The union looked after women’s rugby in all four home nations, which then consisted of just 12 teams."
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