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A stoic, young woman has her arm stretched above her head, one leg kicked forward with a heel dug into the ground. Her countenance is one of mild reproach, and now the other hand reaches ..
Just when it looked like the Rugby NorCal Kickoff Tournament (KOT) was going to be canceled, members from the Pleasanton Cavaliers stepped in to save the crucial pre-season event. This ..
Sariah Ibarra was happy playing softball, but when her dad suggested that her younger brother try rugby to learn better tackling technique for football, the then-nine-year-old protested. ..
The Girls’ High School Rugby National Tournament is taking shape, as 12 teams have registered for the 22nd annual 15s event, which occurs May 21-22, 2022, at Notre Dame College (Euclid, ..
The Southern California Interscholastic Rugby Foundation (SCIRF) formed in 2017 and this season added girls’ high schools to its programming. Ten teams signed on, and after 13 weeks ..
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 ..
The Celtic Barbarians (CB) is a well-known, well regarded select side program that has been sending North American squads to elite tournaments since 2008. So when Director of Rugby ..
Rugby Texas kicked off its girls’ high school 7s season last Saturday, hosting the first of four regular-season tournaments before the state championship on May 14. After week one, ..
PRESS RELEASE – What happens when five of the top girls’ high school rugby clubs on the East Coast decide to collaborate? A new Elite Girls Rugby League (EGRL) is born to provide ..
Akilah Cathey confessed that her relationship with rugby did not begin with "love at first sight." In fact, the Memphis, Tenn., native needed a bit of badgering before finally adding ..
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 ..
The Iowa Hawkettes is the high school girls’ state all-star program, and the successful 7s team is a well known entity throughout the Midwest. Fifteens was added to the programming ..
When Sara Dougherty discovered rugby, there was just one team in Ethiopia for which she could play. Now that she’s in the U.S., there are more opportunities to play the sport, but the Illinois ..
Photo: Travis Prior (@rugby_photog_co) for USA Rugby When Maddie Doyle tuned into the 2016 Rio Olympics and first saw rugby, she was looking at the game of 7s as someone who had never ..
Fallbrook Open’s Liliana Woodworth in the tackle vs. San Marcos Southern California Youth Rugby kicked off its high school season last week, and everyone’s playing 7s. There ..
@CardinalsRugbyClub photo (link to original) The North Carolina Youth Rugby Union (NCYRU) started its Winter High School season in early December and kicked off the 2022 segment of play ..
As USA U20 head coach Joel Bonnaud explained, more than half of the Winter 15s Camp attendees were completely new to the USA Pathway – a function of the pandemic. Katelyn Walker is one such ..
Midwest returner Lexi Erdolino in January 2020 / Photo: Christine Varga Despite the two-year pandemic disruption, interest in and support for the Midwest High School Thunderbirds have ..
The 22nd Annual Girls High School Rugby National Tournament will be held Saturday-Sunday, May 21-22, 2022, at Notre Dame College in Euclid, Ohio. Teams may now register for the annual ..
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