Former Barbadian international women’s rugby player Sandra Lake has touched down at Fullerians Rugby Club in Watford to help establish a new women’s team.

Sandra, whose 10-year-old son Thomas, has also joined the club, used to play hooker for the national side when she lived in the West Indies.

She now lives in Carpenders Park and works as a Biomedical Scientist at Watford General Hospital where she concentrates in the fields or haematology and transfusion science, testing blood samples and issuing blood.

She is married to Stanley - not a rugby player - and also has a 20-year-old daughter, Danielle.

She is hoping her experience in the front row and interest in the Rugby World Cup will help get more women hooked on the sport.

Though she was forced to retire from playing after suffering ligament injuries she is keen to put her coaching skills to the test.

Women’s rugby as a sport has gone from strength to strength over recent years and participation is currently at an all time high.

Would-be players are invited to join her for the club’s all-age and mixed sex touch sessions on a Wednesday evening from 7.30pm with a view to establishing a women’s squad and regular training kicking off early next month.

Girls play mixed rugby until the age of 12 and then break away into a ladies only section.

Fullerians previuously had a hugely successful women’s team, the Fullers Furies, and developed international players including Michaela Staniforth who represented England in consecutive women’s rugby World Cups.

For more information visit www.fullerians.co.uk or call Sandra on 07542 135747.