After her runner-up finish on Dancing With The Stars, Team USA rugby star Ilona Maher is getting back to doing what she does best. Per Colin Millar of

Women's rugby's biggest star is leaping into pastures new in 2025. Ilona Maher, the American rugby supernova who took the country by storm as a part of the United States' bronze medal-winning sevens side in the summer, is taking her talents to Bristol Bears in January, she announced on social media Monday afternoon.

Ilona Maher is a Bristol Bear! The Olympian, who brought home Team USA’s first bronze medal in rugby sevens at the Paris Games this summer, is headed to England for the next few months as she joins the Bristol Bears of England’s Premiership Women’s Rugby (PWR) league.