Former England prop Shaunagh Brown has come out of retirement and can play for Premiership Ladies’s Rugby membership Harlequins subsequent season.

She’s going to mix taking part in with a training position on the London membership.

“I see the place the sport is heading and really feel like I nonetheless have extra to supply,” she informed the membership web site.

“The chance to return again was one I could not flip down. The flame inside me has been firmly reignited and I can not wait to return out preventing for Quins within the new period of girls’s rugby.”

The highest flight has been rebranded from the Ladies’s Premier 15s for the 2023-24 marketing campaign, with the change a part of a 10-year plan for the ladies’s sport in England.

The brand new-look league will function 10 golf equipment in partnership with the Rugby Soccer Union.

Brown solely began taking part in rugby in 2015, having beforehand represented England on the 2014 Commonwealth Video games within the hammer.

She made her worldwide debut towards Canada in November 2017, and her last England outing got here within the 34-31 defeat by New Zealand within the Rugby World Cup last final November.

A educated firefighter, a heating engineer and a business diver, Brown mentioned rugby had “solely ever modified my life for the higher” when she introduced her retirement on the finish of final 12 months.

She made 81 appearances for Quins throughout her first spell on the membership, and her versatility within the ahead pack will even bolster the membership’s choices within the again row following her return to the sport.