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Photo courtesy IU Women’s Rugby Facebook It’s still early in the USA Rugby Division I College Fall Championship season, and so the rankings are going to move around as teams ..
Photo: Katie Bernashe Colby-Sawyer College competes in Division III of the National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA), but prior to NCAA varsity status, the Chargers existed ..
Photo courtesy Queens Univ. of Charlotte Athletics It was an exciting weekend for NCAA varsity games, which produced movement in the Tier 1 and Tier 2 NIRA rankings. Tier 3 remained ..
All photos: Chloe Trofatter Michigan State knew it had something good brewing in Lansing. Numbers and recruitment were consistent, the club was well established and running smoothly, ..
Photo courtesy Vassar College Athletics Update: The original version of this article stated that Winona State was competing in DI, when in fact it’s competing in a DI/DII hybrid ..
Photo courtesy Winona State Women’s Rugby Facebook Update: The original version of this article indicated that Winona State was competing in Division I this year but the Black ..
No movement in the second iteration of the National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) rankings, but some changes have occurred in terms of the records that are reflected in the lists. ..
Photo courtesy UNE Athletics Week three of the National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) has wrapped and now all 19 members have played at least one game – although not necessarily ..
Photos: MIDN 1/C Grace Rovira (see more) The U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) is an independent Division I program that contests its 15s season in the fall and relies on an at-large berth ..
Photo: MIDN 1/C Grace Rovira The first blips of collegiate 15s action (outside of NIRA) appeared last weekend. This weekend’s hefty lineup of matches will feed the first DI and DII College ..
Photos: Doreen Madalian West Chester University contested the first NCAA-sanctioned varsity rugby game against Eastern Illinois back in September 2007. Back then, there were only four ..
The following rankings are produced by The Rugby Breakdown – not the National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA). The NCAA varsity league polls its coaches, who rank teams ..
2018 DI Fall College Champion Air Force Academy USA RUGBY – The Fall 2019 Men’s and Women’s College Championship Series, along with the Men’s D2 National Championship, will ..
Photo: Doreen Madalian Week two of the country’s NCAA varsity competition, the National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA), saw 13 teams in motion, when including three non-league ..
Photo: Amy Nicholson Queens University of Charlotte (N.C.) debuted in the National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) last weekend and celebrated with a 62-35 win over Sacred ..
Photo: Amy Nicholson The National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) began its fifth championship season last weekend and put 10 of the 19 members in play. There are three competitions ..
The National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) includes 19 teams that are playing NCAA-sanctioned rugby. Tier 1, Tier 2 and Division III will name champions at the end of the 15s season ..
The National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) begins its championship season this weekend and sees 10 of the 19 member teams in action. The season will culminate on Nov. 9-10, ..
Summer 2019 was a busy one that saw all of the national team and the USA age grade teams in action. The following spreadsheet lists all of the players who competed in some sort of fixture ..
Photo courtesy Sacred Heart Athletics Congratulations to the 2018-19 National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) All-Academic Team. The following student-athletes achieved a cumulative ..
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