Zenay's return potential game-changer for Bok Women in World Cup year

SPRINGBOK Women performance coach Swys de Bruin has stressed the importance of utilising the intellectual capital of the likes of player-turned-coach Zenay Jordaan as the Rugby World Cup looms ever larger.

- ROWAN CALLAGHAN

The 34-year-old Jordaan can offer the Bok Women’s staff valuable insight into the tournament.

The former flyhalf was a prominent member of the team that featured at the last World Cup, in New Zealand in 2022.

She played her last Test for the Bok Women at Waitakere Stadium in Auckland in 2022, bringing to a close a 36-cap career that was a record at the time.

Come England and RWC 2025, Jordaan — who recently completed World Rugby’s Level 3 coaching course - will return to the global showpiece with the Springbok Women in a coaching capacity, assisting South Africa’s coaching staff as part of World Rugby’s Gallagher High Performance Academy programme.

She is also the assistant coach for the Bulls Daisies, South Africa’s top provincial team.

“We all know what a brilliant player she was, and to have the intellectual property of one of the legends in the women’s game around is very positive,” De Bruin said.