Scotland winger Coreen Grant hopes to take her game to a “whole new level” after she moved from Saracens to PWR rivals Harlequins.
Grant, the Edinburgh native who earned the last of her 14 caps for Scotland towards the end of last year in the WXV 2 match with Australia in Cape Town and then missed the Guinness Women’s Six Nations with a knee injury, made 47 appearances for Saracens and scored 16 tries across six seasons in North London.
An environmental journalist outside of rugby, Grant made her Scotland debut in 2021 and featured for her country at the last Rugby World Cup in New Zealand and won the Varsity Match with Cambridge in 2019, scoring a solo try in the dying moments of the game to hand her side the victory.
“I’m delighted to be signing for Quins ahead of 2025/26,” 27-year-old Grant, who is set to be fully fit by the end of June and will have the Women’s Rugby World Cup in her sights, said.
“The side play a really dynamic, exciting brand of rugby which I’m looking forward to being a part of – I think it will take my game to a whole new level.
“There is clearly a tight knit group at Quins so I can’t wait to get to know everyone and get started.”
Harlequins head coach Ross Chisholm is looking forward to working with Grant in the season ahead.
“We’re delighted to have secured the services of a player like Coreen. She has a proven track record at club and international level and has a great ability to make metres when under pressure,” he stated.
“She is a player with real speed and knows her way to the try line. She will add an extra dimension to our attack when she is on the pitch and I’m looking forward to seeing what she can do in a Quins shirt.”
Having grown up in Edinburgh and first played rugby at the Royal High School aged 11, Grant’s family then moved to Los Angeles for three years, where she tried out American football. On her return to Scotland, she joined Murrayfield Wanderers and has never looked back.
She played for their impressive youth teams before moving to Durham University to study English. She captained the university side at Durham, before heading to Cambridge University to study for a master’s degree in environmental humanities.
Grant was with Saracens from 2019/20 until now and, after biding her time, earned her Scotland debut in 2021 versus Italy and is now a key part of the national team squad.
- Earlier this week it was also announced that Grant’s fellow Scotland cap Fi McIntosh, the 25-year-old second-row, was swapping Saracens for Harlequins too, more here.
Coreen Grant is pictured playing for Scotland
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