Jasmine Joyce

Jasmine Joyce-Butchers (née Joyce; born 9 October 1995) is a Welsh rugby union player who plays wing for the Wales women's national rugby union team, Team GB and Bristol Bears. She made her debut for the Wales national squad in 2017, and represented them at the 2021 Women's Six Nations Championship.

Club career Joyce began playing rugby at the age of seven, first joining the mini-section of St. Davids RFC before moving to the women's youth team at Haverfordwest RFC aged 12.

At 15, her skills were spotted by talent scouts for the Scarlets, and she joined the Scarlets women's under 18s programme. After impressing with her speed in training she was placed on the wing, and scored three tries on her full debut against the Dragons. She quickly became an integral part of the under 18s team and soon progressed to the senior squad.

Joyce then signed with her current club, the Bristol Bears, in 2020.

International career Joyce has been active within international rugby since 2013, when she was selected as part of the Wales A Squad for the UK school games. From there she was called into the Welsh squad to train for the extended Six Nations Wales squad. In 2015, just three months into her studies at Cardiff Metropolitan University, Joyce was selected to play for the Wales women's national rugby sevens team for the Dubai Sevens tournament. She was then selected for the Wales 2016/17 Six Nations squad where she made two appearances, making her debut against Scotland in 2017.

Joyce has won 19 caps in her rugby career to date.

In June 2024, she was named in the British squad for the 2024 Paris Olympics and became the first British women rugby player to be selected for three separate Games. The team finished seventh. She was named in the Welsh fifteens side for the 2025 Six Nations Championship in March.

On 11 August 2025, she was selected in the Welsh squad to the Women's Rugby World Cup in England.

Personal life Born in St Davids in Wales, Joyce attended Ysgol Dewi Sant before moving to Cardiff Metropolitan University.

After three years as a personal trainer, Joyce decided to move into teaching, and started studying for a PGCE at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David in Swansea. She attributes her motivation to teach to her own primary school PE teacher. In an interview with Wales247, she said: "My PE teacher Rachael Thomas was one of the driving forces which led me to where I am now. I've always wanted to train to be a teacher probably because of the good experiences I had at both my primary and secondary schools. In particular Rachael was an amazing support when I started my rugby training, encouraging me to succeed."

She competed for Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics.