{"id":13623,"date":"2026-04-22T20:12:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13623"},"modified":"2026-04-22T20:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:12:50","slug":"alex-matthews-england-vice-captain-signs-new-deal-with-gloucester-hartpury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13623","title":{"rendered":"Alex Matthews: England vice-captain signs new deal with Gloucester-Hartpury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">England vice-captain Alex Matthews has signed a new deal to stay with Premiership Women&#8217;s Rugby reigning champions Gloucester-Hartpury.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matthews, 32, joined the club in 2022 and has been part of all three PWR titles the team has won over the past three seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The number eight has won 82 caps for the Red Roses and is part of their current Six Nations squad, although a shoulder injury prevented her from playing a part in their win against Scotland on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really pleased to have extended my time with Gloucester-Hartpury,&#8221; Matthews said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve built something really special here over the past few years and it&#8217;s a group I love being a part of. I&#8217;m excited to keep pushing, developing my game and creating more success with this team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club have not disclosed the length of Matthews&#8217; new deal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England vice-captain Alex Matthews has signed a new deal to stay with Premiership Women&#8217;s Rugby reigning champions Gloucester-Hartpury. Matthews, 32, joined the club in 2022 and has been part of all three PWR titles the team has won over the past three seasons. The number eight has won 82 caps for the Red Roses and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}