A member of a world-beating England rugby team has joined Warwickshire College’s sports teaching staff in a bid to help increase the uptake of women’s rugby.

Wasps back row player Heather Fisher, part of the team which won the IRB Rugby World Cup Sevens Plate in Dubai earlier this year, has been employed to teach on the Sport National Diploma BTEC courses at the college’s new Henley-in-Arden centre.

Heather helped England to success in the plate final, where they beat Canada 12-0 in front of a 50,000-strong crowd.

They were knocked out of the cup competition in a 17-10 quarter final defeat to Australia but, in the run-up to the Dubai competition, England won the San Diego, London, Dubai, Amsterdam, European Sevens and Home Nations Cup, with Heather scoring the winning try in the final in San Diego.

Heather, who has also competed for England at bobsleigh, said: “Rugby is a growing sport, so I hope to get involved in increasing the number of students playing.”