Manon Johnes

Club career Johnes first began playing rugby at the age of six, after developing an interest in the sport by watching matches with her father. She started out as the only girl on the team at CRICC Caerdydd, the junior section of Cardiff Quins. At 13, she moved to Cardiff Quins Girls, before joining the Cardiff Blues under-18s, and later the Cardiff Blues senior squad. Between 2024-2025 Johnes had played in New Zealand for the University of Canterbury and the Canterbury region in the Farah Palmer cup. Johnes signed for Ealing Trailfinders at the beginning of the 2025/2026 season.

International career

Johnes had already established an international career before signing with the Wales senior women's squad. In 2017, she was part of the women's under-18s rugby sevens team that represented Wales and won bronze at the Youth Commonwealth Games in the Bahamas. She would later represent Wales in senior sevens at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia.

She made her debut for Wales against South Africa in 2018 in the autumn series held at Cardiff Arms Park. Wales' 19–5 victory saw Johnes earn her first cap aged just 17.

Johnes has won 14 caps to date in her rugby career.

During the coronavirus pandemic, Johnes would also spend her free time working as an assistant teacher at Ysgol Gwaelod y Garth, Cardiff Blues Women Player of the Year 2017/2018/2019.