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Claremont Colleges has booked its spot in the College Rugby Association of America (CRAA) 7s National Championship after winning last weekend's Pacific Desert DI conference title. The annual ..
National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) has officially ended its 2025 regular season, and now the Division I and Division II/III semifinals can be confirmed. Higher seeds ..
National Collegiate Rugby (NCR) conferences have already started naming champions and awarding spots to the next stage of playoffs: 15s regional playoffs. From Friday-Sunday, Nov. 14-16, ..
Army West Point was one of several National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) programs to enter the 2025-26 season with a new head coach. And while there certainly was a transition ..
National Collegiate Rugby (NCR) has the largest of women’s collegiate membership and will hold four 15s national championships on Dec. 6-7 in Houston, Texas. Conferences are starting ..
The National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) is wrapping up its regular season but good contests are still on tap. The following is a review of conference and non-conference ..
Every week, National Collegiate Rugby (NCR) coaches vote on their respective divisional rankings and the member organization publishes these lists for the benefit of the larger community. ..
American International College (AIC) Women’s Rugby sits atop the National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) DII/III standings and does so as the reigning DII 15s champion. ..
National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA), the competition for NCAA varsity women’s rugby programs in the U.S., updates its Division I and combined Division II/III Power ..
Division III is not in a place to host its own conference championship with National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA), but there is a post-season pathway for DIII programs. ..
SPARTANBURG, SC — The College Rugby Association of America (CRAA) is excited to announce that Spartanburg, South Carolina, will once again host the 2025 CRAA Fall Classic, building ..
National Collegiate Rugby (NCR) updated its weekly Coaches Polls for its four women’s 15s competitions: Divisions I, IAA, II and III. As these rankings suggest, it’s NCR coaches ..
National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) is one month into its NCAA varsity season, and there is some great rugby being played in the eastern half of the U.S. Division I is where ..
National Collegiate Rugby (NCR) introduced 7s and 15s high performance programs during the 2024-25 school year and during the summer took both the 7s Griffins and 15s All-Americans ..
[Updated: Sept. 25, 2025] An initial coach search produced three solid candidates who for all different reasons had to withdraw from consideration. Thus, the interview and vetting process ..
Press Release – National Collegiate Rugby (NCR) 2025 Coaching Mentorship Program is now accepting applications to be a mentee. This new initiative is designed to support the growth ..
Alycia Washington wears all the hats – whether it’s as a USA player, to XV Foundation co-lead, to National Collegiate Rugby (NCR) administrator, to just shining as an overall rugby ..
The National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) post-season doesn’t begin until mid-November, but there have already been a few Division I match-ups that have sparked title ..
The women’s college activity really opened up this past weekend, Sept. 13-14, and will only pick up pace through September. The following covers the NCAA varsity space — ..
National Collegiate Rugby (NCR) added women’s 15s to its high-performance programming this year, and the All-Americans inaugurated their existence with an epic Rugby World Cup-aligned ..
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