England and Wales have competed as separate teams in recent campaigns but next summer will see the rivals replaced by two Great Britain teams in the series run by Rugby Europe.
“Wales have committed to ensuring that Great Britain has primacy this year to enable success at the Rio Olympics with women’s Rugby 7s featuring for the first time and therefore we support GB 1 and GB 2 competing in Rugby Europe,” said Spanton.
“Wales Women’s 7s will be looking at alternative competition and training during 2016 to ensure momentum is retained whilst we build for Commonwealth Games 2018 and in our bid to secure a place on the World Series which is targeted at 2017′” she added.
Wales currently have two players – Jasmine Joyce and Laurie Harries – in the GB Development programme who are progressing well at their base in Guildford.
