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Not every success ends with a championship, title or MVP nod, and that was especially true this past fall – the first collegiate season to show some semblance of pre-Covid normality. ..
People always ask me how this past year and Covid have been for me; i.e., whether The Rugby Breakdown has been able to survive when the sport was in pandemic mode. And I still ..
Seattle, Vancouver, Edmonton, Dubai – these rugby destinations mark just the second half of Emily Fulbrook’s 2021. The Virginia native won a club 7s national championship, scored ..
In September 2021, Newberry College announced the addition of women’s rugby to its varsity athletic offerings and intends to compete in NIRA’s Division II in fall 2022. On Dec. ..
USA RUGBY – For the first time since 2019, USA Rugby Pathways will bring 82 women’s U18 and U20 players to the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Training Site in Chula Vista, Calif., ..
Sam Tancredi / Photo: Neil Kennedy for USA Rugby GLENDALE, CO – USA Rugby announced an eight-team national women’s U23 competition to be held annually, in an effort to increase ..
Mike Lee – KLC fotos for World Rugby Spain is hosting the third and fourth stops on the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, and the schedule for Malaga (Jan. 21-23) has just been ..
Photo: Instagram @wcoroyalrugb If you attended any of the Rugby NorCal High School 7s tournaments this fall, then you definitely know William C. Overfelt High School. The East San Jose ..
The Midwest Thunderbirds brought two teams to the 5th annual Mary Graham All-Star Tournament, the 15s select-side event held in Texas every December (save 2020). Thirty-eight players ..
Guilford College added women’s rugby as a varsity sport in June 2019 and planned to debut in the 2020 National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) Division III season. But Covid-19 ..
Photo: Instagram @swrugby The Southwest Rugby Union has added a senior women’s select side program to its offerings, and the new entity contested its first-ever 15s match on Dec. ..
After a year’s hiatus due to Covid, the newly named Mary Graham All-Star 7s Tournament brought senior club select sides (and two stand-alone teams) to Grand Prairie, Texas, on Dec. ..
Colorado Gray Wolves’ Julie Tordonato (in Life West kit in Sept. 2021) / Photo: Jackie Finlan The Women’s Premier League (WPL) has announced its spring 2022 schedule, restarting ..
The 22nd Annual Girls High School Rugby National Tournament (GHSNC) for single school programs will take place the weekend of May 21-22, 2022 at Notre Dame College in Ohio. [Lead photo: ..
Photo: Alex Ho (hoiho.net) Sarah Levy went to college with the intention of leaving athletics in high school and focusing on academics, but that was before the SoCal native met rugby. ..
After a year’s hiatus due to Covid, the newly named Mary Graham All-Star 15s Tournament brought senior club select sides (and two stand-alone teams) to Grand Prairie, Texas, on Dec. ..
USA Rugby graphic The U.S. Naval Academy won its first-ever 15s championship, defeating Davenport University 20-12 in the College Rugby Association of America (CRAA) final. The title ..
Photo: Mike Lee – KLC fotos for World Rugby USA RUGBY – The USA Women’s Sevens National Team claimed fifth-place in the second of two back-to-back weekends in Dubai. Following ..
Wayne State College and SUNY Cortland were both undefeated as they traveled to Knoxville, Tenn., for the National Collegiate Rugby (NCR) Small College National Championship. During ..
Matthews, N.C. – On a beautiful 70-degree fall afternoon in North Carolina, the Vassar College women ran out convincing winners in the American Collegiate Rugby Association Championship ..
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