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Divine Savior Holy Angels (DSHA) is in a new era. After 27 stellar years at the helm, John Klein retired as head coach after the spring 2025 season. Joe Kloiber, who had served as assistant ..
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For the past three years, West Pitt has crossed state lines to compete in the well structured, highly competitive girls' high school fall 7s series in Ohio. The Pennsylvania program ..
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Grand Haven graduated a big senior class last season and returned three players who could be considered experienced veterans. So the Michigan program entered fall 2025 with a rebuilding ..
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The Lumberjackies took a heart-breaking loss in last year's Rugby Colorado 7s final, but a strong set of seniors helped turn that disappointment into fuel for another shot at the U18 Girls ..
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Scores for girls and women’s rugby games occurring in the U.S. — or internationally, if involving U.S.-based players — from Saturday-Sunday, Nov. 8-9, 2025. There ..
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In its third year in existence, Summit has won its second-straight Rugby Oregon Girls' High School 7s Championship title. It was a special title for the Bend, Ore., program, as there ..
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Fall 7s is nothing new to Utah Youth Rugby (UYR), but having the girls' competition shift from club based to high school based is a change for 2025. It's an important step toward getting ..
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Claremont Colleges has booked its spot in the College Rugby Association of America (CRAA) 7s National Championship after winning last weekend's Pacific Desert DI conference title. The annual ..
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For Waverly-Shell Rock, the goal every year is to win the Iowa Youth Rugby Association (IAYR) Girls’ High School 7s Championship, but this fall, the 2024 titleholder wanted to prove ..
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For the third-straight year, Idaho has organized and hosted the annual Girls’ High School Rugby 7s Championship. From Oct. 24-25, 16 single-school teams from five states overtook ..
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Army West Point was one of several National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) programs to enter the 2025-26 season with a new head coach. And while there certainly was a transition ..
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Idaho is such a fun state to follow for girls’ high school rugby. The fall is for school-sponsored 7s, and several different high schools have hoisted the trophy since the competition's ..
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American International College (AIC) Women’s Rugby sits atop the National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) DII/III standings and does so as the reigning DII 15s champion. ..
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Division III is not in a place to host its own conference championship with National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA), but there is a post-season pathway for DIII programs. ..
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It didn’t take long for Olga Wilson to realize that rugby was her forever sport. Playing in high school and then college, the Connecticut native knew she would continue to contribute ..
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Alycia Washington wears all the hats – whether it’s as a USA player, to XV Foundation co-lead, to National Collegiate Rugby (NCR) administrator, to just shining as an overall rugby ..
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The National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) post-season doesn’t begin until mid-November, but there have already been a few Division I match-ups that have sparked title ..
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Part one of the girls’ high school overview covered those states that name 15s champions in the fall, and part two looks at states naming 7s champions in the fall. The caveat ..
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Girls’ high school rugby is underway and states are playing a mix of competitive and developmental 7s and 15s seasons. The following belongs to a three-part overview of competitions ..
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Army won the 6th Annual All-Armed Forces Women’s Rugby 7s Championship at the Chula Vista Elite Athlete Training Center (CVEATC) on Sept. 6-7, but it was a title hard earned. There ..
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