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The USA Rugby U23 All-Star 15s Tournament brings the country’s best age grade talent together at one location – this year, Clearwater, Minn., a convenient location for the head of the USA Rugby High Performance Pathway Program for women, Martha Daines. In a dense field of talent, Midwest loose forward Ava Reuter was named U23 […]

The Midwest won the USA Rugby U23 All-Star 15s Tournament for the first time in this modern era of the event. The Thunderbirds beat the Mid-Atlantic and Pacific South during day one in Clearwater, Minn., and then ended with a redemptive title win against the Rocky Mountain Peaks last Sunday. Wisconsin native and rising senior […]

As part of the World Rugby’s WXV Global Series, the USA Women’s National Team (WNT) will play three international test matches on three consecutive weekends in October. The Women Eagles will face Italy in Mansfield, Texas (Oct. 17) and Nashville (Oct. 24), and then England in Harrison, N.J. (Oct. 30). In both Tennessee and New […]

Highland won its first Rugby Ohio Girls’ High School 15s Championship in years, and did so after a season marked by change. There were adjustment periods as a new coaching staff introduced new game strategies and experimented with positions, but ultimately the players bought in and were rewarded with some redemptive wins and a state […]

Plenty of rugby in all of its varieties kept the U.S. in motion last weekend. The following is a quick summary of events and results, but stay tuned for follow-up interviews, in addition to some belated coverage on girls’ high school champions and the Mexican-American program that is playing 7s and 15s at home and […]
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