U.S. Girls & Women's Rugby News • EST 2016

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Freshman-Heavy Davenport Wins DII NIRA

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Since the inception of the women’s rugby program in fall 2013, Davenport University has amassed its share of trophies. The Panthers have won national and seasonal, 7s and 15s, Division I and Division II championships, and came agonizingly close to adding a National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) title to its accolades last year. But that achievement arrived on Nov. 18, when the NCAA varsity program won the NIRA Division II conference against Lander University in Cambridge, Mass. [Photos:

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