Father and daughter share World Cup hope for Cambridgeshire rugby
Darcey and Tony Wadd of St Ives Rugby Club want to see more growth in the female game
For one club in Cambridgeshire, it hopes progress on and off the pitch won't stop at today's Women's Rugby World Cup final.
The showpiece at Twickenham sees England up against Canada at Twickenham as the Red Roses look to become world champions for a third time.
And for teenagers like Darcey Wadd - who plays and coaches at St Ives Rugby Club - she's sure to be keeping an eye on what happens this afternoon.
As well as a player for the club's under 18s side, the 17-year-old also coaches the under 16 girls.
"Coaches have become more aware of the fact to learn rugby, you have to play rugby (matches) so with more teams in leagues, it's brought up the standard massively because girls are getting more game time," Darcey said.
"As a coach, we need the girls to be more confident in playing a difficult sport."
Darcey believes rugby isn't taught to girls in schools because it's "not highly accepted as a woman's sport yet."
As a player, she feels more people outside of the sport that women and girls can play rugby.
"Because we have an exceptional (national) women's team and it's being televised, it's a great opportunity for people to know the sport of women's rugby," Darcey added.
"I'm sure boys have male rugby role models they've had to look up to, same with women's football, but with women's rugby, it's only become a recent thing that people know of the players, having ambitions."
There are now 40 girls registered at St Ives RFC since the setup began in February 2022, a year before the ladies' team started.
Tony Wadd, 56, is lead coach at the girls' squad at St Ives and the club's coach co-ordinator.
He's also involved with the eastern counties under 18s setup and believes the Women's Rugby World Cup has and can continue to make an impact on the region.
"The amount of clubs that have taken up eastern counties leagues has doubled over the past two years; you can see the growth is there, but there needs to be some collaboration between coaches and clubs to ensure that keeps growing," Tony said.
Figures from World Rugby last year show the number of female participants - those who have tried rugby as part of a programme such as in primary schools - has increased by 53.2%.
While more than 1.3 million young women and girls got involved in the game this way in 2023.
Off the field, St Ives RFC have been given funding to help with equipment such as rugby balls, bibs and cones, as well as work inside the club's changing rooms.
But on it, Tony feels the current England side can act as motivation for both younger and older female players.
"It (the Rugby World Cup) will have a big part to play that not just girls will be looking at role models, but also women," he added.
"They may not have had the opportunity five, six years ago to play junior rugby and now they have the chance to take up the sport."