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There’s just one more rugby game in the 2024 Women’s Premier League (WPL) season, and it will produce the first Legacy Cup champion. The Colorado Gray Wolves and Berkeley All Blues ..
Berkeley finished atop the Women’s Premier League (WPL) standings and takes the top seed into this Saturday’s Legacy Cup semifinals, hosted by Women’s Elite Rugby (WER). Head ..
The Women’s Premier League (WPL) and Women’s Elite Rugby (WER) are inextricably linked. The former is a foundation, the latter is a future, and they’re working together to form ..
In November 2018, Life West faced the D.C. Furies in a Women’s Premier League (WPL) challenge match, the stakes being a spot in the 2019 rugby 15s competition. The Gladiatrix put in a statement ..
The National Collegiate Rugby (NCR) pre-season rankings have been published and Women's Director Angela Smarto is sharing some inside knowledge on the Division I, Division II and Division ..
The Midwest High School Thunderbirds (“Baby Birds”) planned its most ambitious rugby tour to date, taking close to 100 players and family members to New Zealand for a 15s tour in June. ..
The Women’s Premier League (WPL) wrapped up its regular season on Sunday – sort of. The rugby 15s game between the Colorado Gray Wolves and Life West did not occur, and the competition ..
Last weekend, the New England Junior Jacks took 22 U18 girls and five staffers to Canada for a 15s match against the Rugby Quebec U18s. But the trip across the border provided much ..
New York Rugby Club (10-2) ended its Women’s Premier League (WPL) regular season with an affirming win against Berkeley in Moraga, Calif. The rest of the competition will play its final ..
National Collegiate Rugby (NCR) accounts for 80% of women’s college rugby teams in the U.S., and the organization is poised to make 2024-25 its best year yet. In part one of this ..
The Women's Premier League (WPL) is down to its final regular-season matches, which will occur this weekend, Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 24-25. As previously mentioned, the semifinalists ..
Lissa Salisbury is a talented athlete, and once identified, the Carmel, Ind., product was fast-tracked into elite and national-level rugby. There was an element of chance getting into ..
National Collegiate Rugby (NCR) is by far the largest member organization for U.S. women's college rugby programs, and so tracking every update for the 2024 fall 15s season isn't really ..
The following is a calendar of girls’ high school, women’s college, women’s club and women’s national team events occurring in 2024. Also included are U.S. tournaments ..
Scion didn’t actually go anywhere, but the team was absent from the 2023 USA Club Rugby 7s National Championship. The D.C.-based program had won the two previous trophies and was forced ..
You’ve found rugby and are immediately hooked. You’re enamored by the community and camaraderie on and off the pitch, and the whole sport feels like a forever home. But what if your ..
“Hey, you look athletic. Want to try rugby?” “Sure, why not?” It’s a classic recruitment tactic, and so many American rugby players can trace the start of their careers to that ..
The USA Rugby Women’s U20 National Team ended its Transatlantic Quad Series on a high note, beating the England U20s 40-22 at Cardiff Arms on July 24. The junior Eagles had played ..
There has been a good amount of international competition for girls and women’s rugby in the U.S. this summer, and there’s more to come before the onset of the fall 2024 season. ..
The USA Rugby U20 Women’s Team is past the halfway point of its Transatlantic Quad Series tour. The junior Eagles are 0-2 against Canada and Wales U20 teams, although substantial ..
The Rugby Breakdown (TRB) covers girls and women's rugby in the U.S. JACKIE FINLAN is the sole employee creating content and the paid subscription base supports this full-time enterprise. For $5/month (or $60/year), subscribers access features covering the USA Eagles, senior clubs, colleges, high schools, and everything in between. TRB prides itself on original, interview-based articles that showcase the people driving this great sport in the U.S.