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There’s a new senior women’s team in Kansas City, and the Patriots Rugby Club wasted no time in joining the Mid-America Division II 15s competition this fall. Uniquely, approximately ..
Towson Women’s Rugby is playing its first 15s season since the pandemic, and the Division II team notched its first Mid-Atlantic Rugby Conference (MARC) last Saturday. Recent grad ..
The majority of the girls’ high school rugby action occurring in the fall is 7s, but there are two Midwest states playing 15s and naming champions this fall. There are a couple ..
Bowling Green State University (BGSU) is the only Ohio team in the Great Lakes Women’s Rugby Conference, a DII/DIII hybrid league in National Collegiate Rugby (NCR). The rest of the members ..
USA Club Rugby really opened up last weekend, with several more competitions contesting season openers on the weekend. The following reviews those league games and includes links to standings ..
The Colorado Gray Wolves repeated as the Women’s Premier League national champion last Saturday, defeating the Berkeley All Blues in the first Legacy Cup, held in Greensboro, N.C. ..
The National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) just wrapped on week three of NCAA varsity competition, and Quinnipiac University has had a unique start to the Division I season. ..
The Legacy Cup was always going to be special, regardless of how the game itself played out. But the Women’s Premier League’s Colorado Gray Wolves and Berkeley All Blues gave the rugby ..
The Women’s Premier League (WPL) is naming its 2024 champion this Saturday, Sept. 14, and it’s a rematch of the 2023 final: Colorado Gray Wolves vs. Berkeley All Blues. ..
When Lauren Shissler graduated from Penn State in 2015, the inside center had helped the team to its 4th-straight, and 10th overall, USA Rugby DI 15s National Championship. Two weeks ..
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 ..
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