Former Rhino Danika Priim elected RFL Vice-Presidents

Congratulations to former Leeds Rhinos Women's player Danika Priim who has been elected as an RFL Vice-Presidents, alongside Steve Wild

Following the election of Adam Hills MBE to succeed Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP as RFL President for 2025-26, Council accepted two nominations to work as Hills’s Vice-Presidents.

Steve Wild, the long-serving Swinton Lions Chief Executive and RFL Council member, follows in the footsteps of Malcolm White, the former Lions chairman who was RFL President in 2001-2.

Danika Priim, a former Bradford Bulls, Leeds Rhinos and England forward who has made a successful move into the media since retirement, will become the fourth woman to serve as the RFL’s President or Vice President since the positions were introduced in 1988 – and the first England Women international.

Kath Hetherington was the RFL’s trailblazing first woman President in 1995, followed by Clare Balding CBE in 2021-22, while Sue Taylor MBE was the only previous woman Vice President in 2022-3.