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COVID has impacted so many of us around the world and it continues to do so. Here, on this World Mental Health Day, rugby playing Ashleigh Rollins shares how it has impacted her mental health and how sport, and in particular, rugby, helped her. Thank you Ashleigh.

Rugby Union first came into my life in 2016, where I found myself completely absorbed by the sport. I began playing in secondary school, where I then started playing for South Molton RFC, a club which taught me everything I have to know within rugby.

In my first season I won coaches player, something which was hard to come across with the talent that we had in the team. I continued playing for South Molton for years, going up through the age groups and working on skills and techniques in order to become the best player I could be. Then 2020, I was sent to trial for Devon County, in which I was selected to represent the county in 3 tournaments in the South West, however the third was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic. Representing my county in rugby was one of the proudest moments of my life, because I knew I had worked so hard to get myself in the position I was in.