Kendal Rugby Union Football Club has opened a new senior-team record archive spanning more than a century, revealing Glenn Chesher as the club’s leading First XV appearance-maker and Hayley Hodgson as the top scorer in the recorded Wasps points table.
The archive was published on 23 August 2026 and updated the following day. It brings together senior-team appearance and scoring information from different stages of Kendal Rugby Club’s development, creating a single reference point for current players, former members and supporters.
Glenn Chesher leads Kendal’s First XV appearances
Chesher is recorded as having made 243 First XV appearances for Kendal. That puts him three matches ahead of Matt Houghton, who is listed on 240.
The published appearance table covers the period from 1905 through to the end of the 2025 season. Alistair Thompson is third on 200 appearances, followed by Reece Tomlinson on 183 and Dini Noyo on 157.
The list includes long-serving Kendal club members alongside players from more recent senior sides, placing Chesher’s record in the context of the club’s changing teams and more than a century of competition.
Aaron Stephens heads the First XV scoring table
Matt Houghton also features among the leading First XV scorers, although Aaron Stephens tops that table with 361 points from 78 appearances.
Stephens’s total includes 12 tries, nine conversions and 53 penalties. Houghton is second on 320 points, while Noyo is third with 295.
Evan Moir is listed on 227 points from 25 appearances, including 16 tries, three conversions and two penalties. Ollie Rose completes the published leading scorers with 140 points from 42 appearances.
Hayley Hodgson tops recorded Wasps points
The women’s Wasps records cover the 2013/14 campaign through to the 2025/26 season. Aimee Sharp is the leading recorded appearance-maker with 125 matches, followed by Sarah Wilkinson on 110. Hodgson is third in the appearance table with 109 matches.
Hodgson leads the recorded Wasps points table with 734 points, comprising 140 tries and 17 conversions. Wilkinson is second on 270 points, followed by Tamar Benson on 253.
The club has cautioned that some women’s-team figures remain provisional while research continues. The archive combines entries from the Wasps’ first listed campaign in 2013/14 with newer material from the 2025/26 season, so further historical research could change some of the published totals.
Unless additional research alters the figures, Chesher’s 243 First XV appearances and Hodgson’s recorded 734 Wasps points remain the headline milestones in Kendal Rugby Club’s newly published records. The archive gives supporters one place to follow senior-team appearances and scoring achievements while the club continues developing its historical record.