Harrison chasing more after perfect season

After a season where she ticked everything off her to-do list, Zoe Harrison is equally clear on what she wants to achieve this time around, and how to do it. 

Harrison completed an unprecedented treble of World Cup, Six Nations and PWR wins, while also scoring a World Rugby Women’s 15s Player of the Year nomination. 

Now the Saracens’ fly-half is embarking on a title defence, with a further prize potentially waiting at the end of the campaign. 

“A Lions tour,” the 28-year-old said. “Win the Prem again and go on a Lions tour. That's the aim.

“I think I just keep my head down and keep working on things that I've been working on, don’t let my foot off the gas and all that stuff.  

“Job’s not done, I'm not on a tour yet.

“Last season was a great season. As an individual player, it went World Cup win, Six Nations win, PWR win. There's nothing more you could have asked, so for me, it's probably one of the best seasons I've ever had.  

“Nothing can really compare. Now that there is a Lions tour, then, obviously, if that was to be in there somewhere, then it would be different, but other than that, it was the perfect season.”

The first-ever British & Irish Lions Women’s tour will take place at the end of next summer, with Harrison one of the names expected to be in head coach Jo Yapp’s squad.

Before she can look forward, she has been looking back as she returned to the scene of Saracens’ PWR Final triumph over Trailfinders - Twickenham Stoop - for the season launch of the 2026/27 JAECOO PWR season.

As the north London team returned to the top of women’s rugby once more last season, they did so with a new weapon in their arsenal, Canada head coach Kévin Rouet.

She said: “I think last year, especially with Sarries, it was new working with Kévin, it put a new light onto some of my attack, which was fantastic.

“I really appreciate the work that he had done in terms of bringing that to life and seeing a different side of the game. And then just working hard on individual skills. 

“There was also an individual part, but it actually was the whole team part, being a 10 and having your whole team be able to call stuff as well, and want the ball in different areas, and it's not just you putting it in there, was really helpful to me.

“So it wasn't just him directly helping me, it was him helping the team actually helped me a lot.”
Harrison defines Saracens' ethos as winning, an approach she keenly shares in, and is similarly pleased that their hard-nosed, no-mercy brand of rugby is felt from the outside - with new signing Beth Wilcock describing the contrast to being outside and inside the environment.

“Beth's a perfect candidate to come over to our side,” Harrison added. “I think she wants to work hard and she's told us what the outside think, which is very interesting. But it's great that they all think that.

“She's a great player, and I think she'll be great for our team, as well, because she's a player that also likes to win, she likes to fight for a win, but we are soft and welcoming in the centre as well.”