YORK City Knights Ladies have had TWO players named in the England Women’s National Performance Squad.

Ashleigh Hyde and teenage talent Daisy Sanderson have both been picked in head coach Craig Richards’ 32-player party, with the call-ups coming just a year after the team began their maiden campaign in the Women's Super League.

Hyde, the Knights' Players' Player of the Year last term, and loose-forward Sanderson, the Player of the Year, both featured for Yorkshire in the Origin game against Lancashire last autumn.

Three-quarter Hyde is one of five new faces in the national squad, along with Leeds Rhinos stand-off Hanna Butcher, St Helens winger Leah Burke, Castleford Tigers prop Grace Field and Bradford Bulls' Leah Jones.

Wigan centre Rachel Thompson, who scored a hat-trick in the Warriors' Grand Final victory against table-toppers Leeds in October, also gets a recall having played in the 2017 Women's World Cup.

York's two call-ups will act as a fillip after the team suffered an eye-opening 80-0 mauling by Castleford in their opening game of the Women's Super League season on Sunday.

2019 England Women’s National Performance Squad: Savannah Andrade (Bradford), Amy Hardcastle (Bradford), Shona Hoyle (Bradford), Leah Jones (Bradford), Grace Field (Castleford), Kelsey Gentles (Castleford), Rhiannion Marshall (Castleford), Sinead Peach (Castleford), Tamzin Renouf (Castleford), Georgia Roche (Castleford), Tara-Jane Stanley (Castleford), Andrea Dobson (Featherstone), Katie Hepworth (Featherstone), Dannielle Anderson (Leeds), Caitlin Beevers (Leeds), Hanna Butcher (Leed), Amy Johnson (Leeds), Leah Burke (St Helens), Chantelle Crowl (St Helens), Jodie Cunningham (St Helens), Faye Gaskin (St Helens), Tara Jones (St Helens), Emily Rudge (St Helens), Victoria Whitfield (St Helens), Naomi Williams (St Helens), Michelle Davis (Wigan), Rebecca Greenfield (Wigan), Vanessa Temple (Wigan), Rachel Thompson (Wigan), Georgia Wilson (Wigan), Ashleigh Hyde (York City Knights, New Earswick All Blacks), Daisy Sanderson (York City Knights).