Hawaii’s Kahuku makes its deepest trip into the continental U.S. / Photo: Jackie Finlan
The Girls’ High School National Invitational Tournament (NIT) is nearly full with 14 of the 16 spots already claimed. Both the single-school and club competitions contest Division I and Division II brackets, ideally with eight teams in each (32 total).
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This year’s NIT occurs at Middle Tennessee State University in Mufreesboro, located 35 miles outside of Nashville. The high school clubs play Friday-Saturday, May 18-19, and the single schools play Saturday-Sunday, May 19-20. Divine Savior Holy Angels in the reigning NIT champion for single schools, and United (Utah) is the 2017 titleholder for high school clubs.
So far there are three new teams registered in the single-school bracket: North Carolina champion South Mecklenberg, New York’s City Honors and local side Columbia County of Tennessee. Tournament organizers are looking for two more teams to fill out the brackets.
The single-school NIT is already at its biggest since the competition split into High School and High School Club. The previous two years, both of the Division II brackets only included four teams, and now the single schools are at six.
Current list of single-school NIT registrants:
Broken Arrow – Oklahoma
Catholic Memorial – Wisconsin
City Honors – New York
Columbia Central – Tennessee
Divine Savior Holy Angels – Wisconsin
Grandville – Michigan
Kahuku – Hawaii
McMinn County – Tennessee
Oak Creek – Wisconsin
Orchard Park – New York
St Joseph Academy – Ohio
South Mecklenberg – North Carolina
State College – Pennsylvania
Warsaw Area – Indiana
This year, FloRugby will be live-streaming matches from Tennessee – more to come. FloRugby is currently making the Women’s Six Nations available to U.S.-based viewers.
Fill out the appropriate form to apply:
Single-school: application form
Club: application form
Have questions before applying? Then contact the following for some insight:
Venue/event: Tournament director Jody Hensley, Jody.Hensley@mtsu.edu
Single-school: John Waliszewski, jwaliszewski@catholicmemorial.net
Club: Pam Laura, plaura@verizon.net