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Sarah Wells (left) & Elona Williams (right) It’s graduation season, a pivotal time that places reflection on the past alongside anticipation for the future. The rugby community ..
Photo courtesy Claremont Foxes Women’s Rugby Club Facebook Five Division II college conferences have collectively aligned with the College Rugby Association of America (CRAA) ..
Photo: Carlisle Stockton of StocktonPhoto.com The cancellation of the spring 2020 season may have curtailed the on-field efforts of rugby players but the Tri-State Rugby Conference ..
Scrums are a vulnerable area of the game / Photo: Jackie Finlan (TRB) PRESS RELEASE – World Rugby published its Return-to-Play Guidelines earlier this month and followed with ..
Photo courtesy Univ. Iowa Women’s Rugby Club Facebook USA Rugby’s reorganization has thrust the domestic game into disarray, and colleges are particularly vulnerable. Conferences ..
USA Rugby has published “Return to Play Guidelines” that will be implemented beginning June 1, 2020. The resource opens with the following: This information is a proposed ..
Photo courtesy Salisbury Women’s Rugby Club Facebook The Mid-Atlantic Rugby Conference (MARC) is the fourth league to join the reconstituted American Collegiate Rugby Association ..
Photo courtesy Bentley Women’s Rugby Facebook The Rugby Northeast (RNE) conference will remain a hybrid competition for the upcoming school year. Division II teams will align ..
Photo: Amy Nicholson USA Rugby is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy and the country is dividing into new organizations or making new partnerships. There are several options for women’s college ..
Coast Guard, Vassar lead ACRA conferences / Photo: JJ Fagan The American Collegiate Rugby Association (ACRA) is rebuilding its base and starting with the Northeast region’s DII colleges. ..
USA RUGBY – We all have that one teacher. The kind who’s lively, bubbly, sometimes opinionated but always gives the classroom its own character. For many of us, it’s in elementary ..
Hackett, right / Photo courtesy Women’s Rugby at UW-Madison Facebook The University of Wisconsin-Madison enrolls more than 32,000 undergrads and fields nearly 50 club sports teams. ..
Photo courtesy UCWRFC Facebook Teams in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia have united to form a single Ohio Valley Women’s Rugby Conference, a hybrid league that will ..
Photo: Alex Ho (hoiho.net) On May 16, the following letter was sent to women’s collegiate conference commissioners around the country. It announces the return of the American ..
As Audra Nelson readied for elementary school, she had already decided that she was going to be a figure skater. The Winter Olympics had wooed her, and she focused all of her attention ..
Photo: Alex Ho (hoiho.net) WORLD RUGBY – The program of international rugby matches during the 2020 July window has been postponed due to ongoing government and health agency ..
Photo: Amy Nicholson The Rugby Breakdown is pleased to welcome Carol Ann Crump, a rising senior at Queens University of Charlotte, as a summer intern. The sports management major is an active ..
Alex Ho Photo (hoiho.net) (5.28 Article updated to reflect Univ. Iowa’s addition to the Big 10) The majority of women’s Division I colleges are remaining members of USA Rugby, ..
Photo: World Rugby PRESS RELEASE World Rugby has announced that, with immediate effect, it will no longer be possible to score a try by grounding the ball against the post protector. ..
Photo: Jackie Finlan / The Rugby Breakdown PRESS RELEASE College rugby has a long and storied history. Over the last 40 years, the game has evolved into a competitive sport on college ..
The Rugby Breakdown (TRB) covers girls and women's rugby in the U.S. JACKIE FINLAN is the sole employee creating content and the paid subscription base supports this full-time enterprise. For $5/month (or $60/year), subscribers access features covering the USA Eagles, senior clubs, colleges, high schools, and everything in between. TRB prides itself on original, interview-based articles that showcase the people driving this great sport in the U.S.