Woman Rugby Player Babalwa Latsha Lights Up South Africa’s Rugby Fields By Cheryl Roberts

1. Woman Rugby Player Babalwa Latsha Lights Up South Africa’s Rugby Fields By Cheryl Roberts Its been an amazing 40 months in the life of young woman rugby player Babalwa Latsha, who never touched a rugby ball until she got to tertiary studies. Until the day before leaving for the USSA (student rugby tournament), Babalwa had never played rugby. It was a day before the USSA tournament in September 2014 that Babalwa first touched a rugby ball. And that’s how it all kicked off for this amazing young woman and her rugby talent. We are speaking about University of the Western Cape final year law student Babalwa Latsha. After the student tournament, Babalwa fell in love with rugby. She went on to get selected in 2015, for Western Province senior women’s rugby team, without having played youth girls rugby. Later in the 2017 season, Babalwa had to take over the WP captaincy after the captain got injured. And then in the final minutes of the 2017 WP v Border SA

2. Interprovincial final in East London, Babalwa had captained WP to a dramatic SA championship win in 5 years. Then came the call up to the South African emerging women’s squad that toured the UK, late 2017. And in early 2018, came the selection to the Springbok women’s squad, followed by selection to USSA 7’s women’s rugby squad to play in the world university rugby championship, and a call-up to SA women’s rugby 7’s squad. Now Babalwa awaits to hear if she will make the final 12 of the SA 7’s team to play in the World cup series in the USA in July. Source by:https://africanwomanwarrior.wordpress.com/2018/07/03/woman-rugby-player-babalwa- latsha-lights-up-south-africas-rugby-fields-by-cheryl-roberts/