{"id":3508,"date":"2021-09-22T09:09:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T08:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2021-09-22T09:09:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T08:09:28","slug":"sara-cox-to-become-first-woman-to-referee-premiership-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2021\/09\/22\/sara-cox-to-become-first-woman-to-referee-premiership-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Cox to become first woman to referee Premiership game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/09\/120635248_gettyimages-1063346724.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/09\/120635248_gettyimages-1063346724.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/09\/120635248_gettyimages-1063346724-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/09\/120635248_gettyimages-1063346724-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Sara Cox is set to make history on Saturday as the first woman to referee a Premiership game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cox will take charge of Harlequins&#8217; home opener against Worcester Warriors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rugby Football Union (RFU) made Cox the world&#8217;s first female professional rugby referee in March 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, she became the first female assistant referee in English rugby&#8217;s top flight and was the first woman to take charge of an English top-tier game&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/46095893\">in the Premiership Rugby Cup in 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Huge congratulations to Sara Cox,&#8221; Premiership Rugby tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;ll become the first woman to referee a #GallagherPrem league game on Saturday. Continually making history.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sara Cox is set to make history on Saturday as the first woman to referee a Premiership game. Cox will take charge of Harlequins&#8217; home opener against Worcester Warriors. The Rugby Football Union (RFU) made &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}