HIGHEST HOPES

Wales boss scales Yr Wyddfa ahead of Euro '25 squad announcement

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WALES manager Rhian Wilkinson scaled Yr Wyddfa on her own ahead of the squad announcement for Euro 2025.

With the European Championships just over two weeks away, Wilkinson announced her 23-player collective from Eryri National Park, and more specifically, the summit of the highest peak.

The press, along with the FAW media team, Rhiannon Roberts and Olivia Clark took the train to the top, but Wales boss Wilkinson decided she would go one better and climb the mountain herself at the crack of dawn.

For everyone else, it was a 7.30am departure from Llanberis train station, a one-hour journey in total, ready for the announcement at 9am from Hafod Eryri - the epic viewpoint atop the mountain.

For Wilkinson though, she was already there at 7.15am, book in hand and welcomed by a truly glorious north Walian morning - and it took her only 90 minutes.

Having visited Eryri National Park on multiple occasions as a child, she has fond memories of the area, which reminds her of her late father.