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Even before the Covid era, but especially now, Dana Alimena had learned to make the best of any situation. After tearing two ACLs, and then the pandemic canceling her Fulbright Program ..
On Feb. 10, the Pacific Northwest (PNW) Selects played a curtain-raiser for the Major League Rugby game between host Seattle and visiting Utah. The intra-squad 15s match took place ..
(NEW YORK, Feb. 17, 2022) Premier Rugby Sevens (PR7s), a new sports league featuring the best rugby talent in North America, announced it will host Open Trials in British Columbia on Sunday, ..
Tampa Bay Krewe Women's Rugby is off to a solid start in Florida, a Division II senior women’s club league that played a full season in spring 2021. Last year, the Krewe advanced ..
American Rugby Pro Training Center (ARPTC), the country’s premier high-performance environment for women in the U.S., announced its closure to members in December, and then to the rugby ..
The American Rugby Pro Training Center (ARPTC) has shuttered. The Little Rock, Ark., organization focused all of its expertise on the girls and women’s rugby game, and provided ..
Senior all-star teams are still pushing for field time, as club seasons are still idle and/or just resuming in portions of the country. The USA South and Old Glory Capital Selects coordinated ..
PRESS RELEASE – Premier Rugby Sevens (PR7s), which will launch its first multi-city season in the U.S. later this year, announced they will hold the PR7s West Coast Open Trials ..
(NEW YORK, Jan. 27, 2022) – Premier Rugby Sevens (PR7s), which will launch its first multi-city season in the U.S. later this year, announced they will host their first of two “Open ..
2020 LAI 7s / Photo: Jackie Finlan (TRB) PRESS RELEASE – World Rugby and USA Rugby announced today that the upcoming U.S. leg of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, LA Sevens, set to take ..
Photo: Travis Prior (@rugby_photog_co) for USA Rugby There are many ways to get a good rugby education, and Leila Opeti is an example of such. A fixture in the Rugby NorCal scene until ..
Photo: BUCS (www.bucs.org.uk) There’s a substantial contingent of Eagles who are competing in the Allianz Premier 15s, the English professional league, but there’s also a solid ..
People always ask me how this past year and Covid have been for me; i.e., whether The Rugby Breakdown has been able to survive when the sport was in pandemic mode. And I still ..
Seattle, Vancouver, Edmonton, Dubai – these rugby destinations mark just the second half of Emily Fulbrook’s 2021. The Virginia native won a club 7s national championship, scored ..
The Midwest Thunderbirds brought two teams to the 5th annual Mary Graham All-Star Tournament, the 15s select-side event held in Texas every December (save 2020). Thirty-eight players ..
Photo: Instagram @swrugby The Southwest Rugby Union has added a senior women’s select side program to its offerings, and the new entity contested its first-ever 15s match on Dec. ..
After a year’s hiatus due to Covid, the newly named Mary Graham All-Star 7s Tournament brought senior club select sides (and two stand-alone teams) to Grand Prairie, Texas, on Dec. ..
Colorado Gray Wolves’ Julie Tordonato (in Life West kit in Sept. 2021) / Photo: Jackie Finlan The Women’s Premier League (WPL) has announced its spring 2022 schedule, restarting ..
After a year’s hiatus due to Covid, the newly named Mary Graham All-Star 15s Tournament brought senior club select sides (and two stand-alone teams) to Grand Prairie, Texas, on Dec. ..
Palmer College returned to play this fall as the reigning Midwest DII champion, but there were many changes to the team that won the 2019 title. That’s the nature of the chiropractic ..
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