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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. ..
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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 ..
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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. ..
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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 ..
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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 ..
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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 ..
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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 ..
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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 ..
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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 ..
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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. ..
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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 ..
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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 ..
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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 ..
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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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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 ..
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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 ..
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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 ..
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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 ..
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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 ..
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“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 ..
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