O’Donnell has been with the club since 2017 and her Lightning number #028 makes her the longest-serving Lightning player in the current squad.

The second row arrived at Loughborough University to study for her Masters in Psychology and immediately commenced playing for Lightning, making her debut from the bench against Harlequins in September 2017.

She was part of Lightning’s first squad as they entered the Premier 15s for its inaugural season in 2017/18, helping them to a fifth-place finish.

It was during that season when O’Donnell made her Red Roses debut against Ireland in the Six Nations before earning a second cap against Scotland. Her first international try came against Ireland in the 2018 Quilter Internationals.