Cumbrian Georgia Wilson captained Wigan Warriors Women to their second consecutive Women’s Challenge Cup trophy at Wembley Stadium on Saturday, 30th May.

They defeated St Helens Women 54-6 to win the second of the club’s Women’s Challenge Cup trophies on only their second appearance at the London stadium.

On captaining her side to their Challenge Cup final victory, Wilson said: “It meant a lot to me. Obviously, we played at Wembley last year, and I co-captained the team with Vicky Molyneux. That was a really special moment for me.”

“It was just extra special this year to do it again. With a different group of players, but it's a really special, really special group, and my emotions were all over the place on the day, but I just tried not to make them take over.”

Wilson also enjoyed Challenge Cup success in 2025 as she co-captained Wigan Warriors Women to their first-ever Challenge Cup final victory against St Helens.

The cherry-and-whites won 42-6 as they made their Challenge Cup final debut against the four-time defending champions.

On the differences between the 2025 and 2026 finals, Wilson said: “A few of the girls left to go back to Australia, and we had a few new girls, a few new recruits. A few of the girls added to the squad had been to Wembley before but hadn't won at Wembley, or some had never been to Wembley, so it just made it that little bit more special for those, and I kind of wanted to win again for those girls.”

“Obviously, we all wanted to win, but it was just going to be really special for those girls. Yeah, it was just a really exciting weekend.”

In the sixth minute of this year’s final, Wilson opened the scoring, with her side going on to score a total of ten tries in one of the most emphatic wins in the history of the competition’s finals.

Wilson’s teammate Eva Hunter crossed for four tries whilst Anna Davies scored twice, with tries also coming from Wigan’s Beri Salihi, Grace Banks and Remi Wilton as well as St Helen’s Luci McColm.

I love this club and it's moments like that that you will cherish, you know; obviously we made history. It was the 1st time the men and women had ever won a Challenge Cup final, you know, on the same day.

On scoring one of Wigan’s ten tries in the 2026 final, Wilson said: “I'm just super proud of everybody; forget even getting on the scoreboard, but even just being out there on the field, and I think it was really nice for Beri Salihi to get on the scoreboard as well. She'd come from Saints to Wigan, so that was a very, very nice moment for her.”

“I think it, you know, shows how well we work as a team when you look across the scoreboard and see how spread out the tries were. Obviously, Eva Hunter scored 4. She's just elite. She’s an absolute athlete, and she'll always manage to find a way through the line at some point, but I think, you know, throughout the game, the score was pretty spread between all the squad players; you know, there are some on the right edge, some on the left edge, there are a couple through the middle, and I think that just shows how well we work together as a team.”

Last Saturday also saw Wigan Warriors defeat Hull KR, 40-10, to become the Men’s Challenge Cup champions for the twenty-second time.

This victory also meant that the club had made history as it became the first to ever win both the women’s and men’s Challenge Cup trophies in the same year.

On what the day meant to the club and town, Wilson said: “It's great. I've been at the club since 2018, and I love this club and it's moments like that that you will cherish, you know; obviously we made history. It was the 1st time the men and women had ever won a Challenge Cup final, you know, on the same day.

“So it was really special for the club and for everybody in the team and especially for those girls that have been part of the club since the start.”

The Challenge Cup trophy is Wigan’s second accolade of the season, as they won the Women’s Nines Challenge Shield in the new-look festival which saw their ‘academy girls’ defeat York Valkyrie in the final.

This, alongside their Challenge Cup victory, means that the Warriors are already part way towards defending their historic quadruple from the 2025 season, which saw them win the Women's Nines, Challenge Cup, League Leaders Shield and Grand Final.

So from August onwards, we're going to be playing the top 4 teams every single week, week in, week out, which is really great preparation for the World Cup

On the 2025 season and their successes this season so far, Wilson said: “That's the 1st time we'd won a trophy since 2018, so we had a bit of a dry spell, so obviously that was our aim. We don't often talk about winning with Dennis. We talk about, you know, each week and what's important now, so we knew that every team was going to try and beat us and come and bully us, but we just knew we had to take it up another level and hope we could come away with the win again.

“Obviously, our aim is to try and retain all the trophies. But like we say, we don't really talk about winning, and we've just got to go each week as it comes and go and concentrate on what's important.”

The Wigan Warriors Women’s team has also started their League Leaders Shield defence in style, as they have won three from three matches in their 2026 league season.

The cherry-and-whites defeated Leeds Rhinos 18-10 in their opening Women’s Super League match before they recorded convincing wins against Barrow Raiders (74-6) and Leigh Leopards (68-4).

On the 2026 season so far and their plans for the rest of the year, Wilson said: "It's been a bit challenging because we've had games that haven't been close score lines, you know, challenging in different ways, maybe because obviously we're not being challenged the way we should be or the way we're wanting to be. But we've played a couple of hard games; we’ve played against Leeds, we played York in the semifinal and obviously Saints again on the weekend in the Challenge Cup final.”

“But it's going to be a bit of a different league this year. It's going to be a bit of a different season. We're playing every single team once, and then the top 4 finishers are going to split at the back end of the season. So from August onwards, we're going to be playing the top 4 teams every single week, week in, week out, which is really great preparation for the World Cup. And obviously it's just good to have those competitive games to make sure we're competing every single week.

Wilson and the rest of the Wigan Warriors Women’s team will next return to action against Huddersfield Giants Women on 14th June, with their next home game coming against St Helens on the 27th June.