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There will be an element of familiarity when the Women’s Elite Rugby (WER) kicks off its inaugural season next week, and that is simply because the teams are based in former Women’s ..
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Last month, Las Vegas played host to an international match series of the rugby league variety. The USA and Greece met at Silver Bowl Park in Henderson, N.V., and 17-year-old Eleni ..
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The West Coast Rugby Conference will know its finalists after this Saturday, and the Pacific Desert Rugby Conference has two 5-0 teams just waiting to face each other and name a champion. ..
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[updated 3.17.25] The DI Pacific Mountain Rugby Conference (PMRC) has locked up its postseason participants and will contest its finals on Saturday, March 22 at Stanford University ..
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Drury University Women's Rugby is the first Division III team to book its spot in the Collegiate 7s Rugby Championship (CRC 7s) on April 26-27, and the Springfield, Mo., team is ready ..
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Renamed this “quick hits” piece to “Screenshot Diaries,” the idea being that there is so much rugby news to cover, but not enough time in the day to devote to the features ..
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Wando enters the North Carolina Youth Rugby Union competitive 15s season, which begins this weekend, with some momentum. The Charleston-based team won the Rugby South Carolina girls' ..
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The Classic Can-Am Series contested its first official women's rugby match last Saturday in Charlotte, N.C., and the USA South banked a 35-27 win against the visiting Canadian Classics. ..
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Every morning I wake up, pull out my phone, and scroll through the rugby world news feed. Ten minutes later, I pull the covers over my head because there is no way I can cover all of the newsworthy ..
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The past 30 days has really seen the USA Club Rugby Women’s Division II open up, and by mid-March, everyone — aside from those who have already qualified for Super Regional ..
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A lot of attention will focus on those USA Club Rugby Division I leagues that are sending champions to the Pacific Super Regional Championship (SRC) this year. Part of that focus is, simply, ..
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There was a ton of excitement heading into the 2025 Southern California Rugby Football Union (SCRFU) Women’s Division II season. The original lineup featured 10 teams (now nine), ..
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The HSBC SVNS has resumed for the fourth of six series stops in Vancouver, Canada, and for USA Women’s 7s fans that means watching the Eagles play in an amenable time zone. Not only ..
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For most of its 13-year existence, the London International 7s Tournament (LIT 7s) has existed as an elite, standalone rugby event. But the last two years have seen significant expansion, ..
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When La Costa Canyon High School (Encinitas, Calif.) held its pre-season meeting, the players were clear in their team goal: Repeat as Southern California Interscholastic Rugby Federation ..
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Since 2006, the Classic Can-Am Series has been a men’s rugby fixture, but that changes in 2025. On Saturday, Feb. 22, the Canadian Classics and USA Rugby South women’s teams will ..
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The Southern California Interscholastic Rugby Federation (SCIRF) season culminated last Saturday, as three divisions of girls’ high school teams competed toward titles. Mission Bay High ..
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The Girls’ U18 15s Territorial Championship started with the Midwest Thunderbirds looking for some warm-weather rugby during the dead of winter. That was in 2016, and nine years later, ..
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The 2025 Girls’ U18 15s Territorial Championship involves four select sides that essentially divide the country into quadrants. The Elite Girls Rugby League (EGRL) brings Northeast ..
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The rugby weekend is here and the following lists the girls and women’s games occurring in the U.S. — or outside of it, if involving U.S.-based players — from Saturday-Sunday, ..
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