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Last month, the USA Falcons took a surprise tour to South America for two 15s games against host Brazil. Sarah Chobot and Katie Dowty served as head and assistant coaches, respectively, ..
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The Women’s Premier League (WPL) is halfway through its season and enjoying a three-week summer break. Reflecting on the first two months of play, Life West has once again drawn interest ..
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Eight U23 regional all-star teams took to the New England Free Jacks rugby stadium yesterday for the first of two game days in Quincy, Mass. Teams were placed into Tier 1 and Tier 2 brackets ..
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The Class of 2024 has been a special one for many high school rugby teams. For those graduating seniors who joined their respective teams as freshmen, they represent the covid class. ..
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This school year was a tale of two seasons for the East Country Grackles in Rugby Oregon. The girls’ high school team struggled to fill the leadership roles that had been vacated ..
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The Eagan Rugby girls’ high school team won its third-straight Minnesota Youth Rugby championship, but the pathway to the 2024 title required a lot of work. Eagan didn’t march ..
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Alexa Kirschner captained the Charlotte Cardinals girls’ high school team (“Roonies”) to its third-straight North Carolina Youth Rugby Union (NCYRU) 15s championship, but it was a season-long ..
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Prior to the pandemic, the Montana girls’ high school rugby league moved from 15s to 7s to accommodate dropping numbers. This past spring, however, the state pushed to restore the traditional ..
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Rugby New York held concurrent 7s and 15s competitions for its girls’ high schools this spring. Some teams didn’t have the numbers for 15s but could compete in 7s, while a couple ..
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St. Joseph Academy has won seven Rugby Ohio girls’ high school 15s championships since 2013, but the 2023 and 2024 titles mark the first time that the Jaguars have gone back to back. ..
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The Brunswick Valkyries graduated a big senior class in spring 2022, and the player pool needed time to refill those influential roles. But even during the rebuild, the team remained ..
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The Chicago Rugby Club (CRC) Valkyries are 4-for-4 on Rugby Illinois championships the past two years. The girls’ high school team retained the state 15s title after a competitive ..
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The Midwest Rugby Union is the only region that holds a senior all-star 15s tournament for its men's and women's teams, and the 2024 event -- Thunderbird Cup -- took place June 1-2 in Lemont, ..
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Warsaw Community High School is the Rugby Indiana girls’ 15s champion, marking the program’s fourth title since its inception in 2003 and first since 2018. The victory comes after ..
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It’s important that high schoolers get 15s experience if they have college rugby aspirations, but especially if they are looking at Division I NCAA varsity programs. These programs ..
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Tom “Doc” O’Neill has rugby roots with Emory & Henry College and was a fitting choice for head coach when the women’s rugby team was elevated to varsity status for the 2023-24 ..
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Northern Virginia (NOVA) Women’s Rugby has won three of the previous four USA Club Rugby Division I 15s National Championships, but the 2023-24 title build was an important one. The year ..
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Baylee Annis (Class of 2014) has returned to Norwich University and the alum does so as the women’s rugby head coach. The 2024-25 season marks year two with the program and it’ll ..
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Tampa Bay won the 2024 USA Club Rugby Women’s Division II 15s National Championship, a height achieved after less than a decade in existence. The Krewe formed in 2016 and made steady ..
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Rugby Colorado has been working to reintroduce girls’ high school 15s, which is no easy feat in a state that is dedicated to 7s in the fall and has a short spring window for any activity ..
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