{"id":14939,"date":"2025-05-25T12:11:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T12:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/australia-coach-jo-yapp-to-leave-after-womens-world-cup-in-september\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T12:11:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T12:11:58","slug":"australia-coach-jo-yapp-to-leave-after-womens-world-cup-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/australia-coach-jo-yapp-to-leave-after-womens-world-cup-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia coach Jo Yapp to leave after Women&#8217;s World Cup in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Jo Yapp will leave her role as Australia head coach after the Women&#8217;s World Cup in in September.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 45-year-old former England captain, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/67690142\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">appointed<\/a> in December 2023, led Australia to their first trophy when they won the WXV2 title in October to secure a World Cup spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This was a difficult decision as I thoroughly enjoy coaching the Wallaroos, but my family always come first when considering future plans and we have decided to return to the UK once my contract expires,&#8221; Yapp said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am proud of the progression the Wallaroos program has had over the past 18 months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c991m92pymlo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jo Yapp will leave her role as Australia head coach after the Women&#8217;s World Cup in in September. The 45-year-old former England captain, who was appointed in December 2023, led Australia to their first trophy when they won the WXV2 title in October to secure a World Cup spot. &#8220;This was a difficult decision as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14941,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14939\/revisions\/14941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}