This past weekend was the last opportunity for teams to qualify for the Collegiate Rugby Championship (CRC) 7s, and National Collegiate Rugby (NCR) will be host a Selection Saturday Show to confirm all of the participants and their divisions. Tune into The Rugby Network on Saturday, April 20 at 7 p.m. ET for the live announcement.
In the meantime, there’s a list of previously qualified teams here. And the following reviews those teams that won CRC qualifiers last weekend and/or publicly announced their at-large berths to the April 27-28 event in Boyds, Md. NCR’s preview provided a map for tracking.
Premier Division
Midwest: champion Univ. Minnesota
South Atlantic: champion Virginia Tech
Rugby Northeast: champion Northeastern Univ
Division I Club*
Allegheny: West Virginia Univ (at large)
Midwest: #2 Univ. Northern Iowa, #3 Iowa State
South Atlantic: #2 Univ. North Carolina
Rugby Northeast: #2 UCONN, #3 Boston College
*With the addition of Claremont Colleges (Pacific Desert), Oregon (Pacific Mountain) and Florida State (Florida), every DI conference in the U.S. (in NCR and CRAA) will be represented.
Division II
Great Waters: champion UW Eau Claire
Mid-Atlantic: champion Temple Univ
Ohio Valley: ?
New England Wide: champion U.S. Coast Guard Academy
South Atlantic: champion Coastal Carolina Univ & runner-up UNC Charlotte
Small College
Allegheny: ?
Colonial Coast: champion Endicott College
Eastern Pennsylvania: champion East Stroudsburg
Great Waters: champion UW Platteville
Mid-Atlantic: champion Christopher Newport Univ
New England Wide: champion Yale Univ
Ohio Valley: champion Ohio Wesleyan Univ & runner-up Baldwin Wallace Univ
Rugby Northeast: champion Roger Williams Univ
South Atlantic: Champion Citadel is not attending CRCs, so runner-up Sewanee: The University of the South is taking the berth