The Rugby Academy announces its Third Annual College Day. College Day is an opportunity for men’s college rugby programs to meet and talk with the top high school rugby players (sophomores to seniors) in the Washington DC/Maryland/Virginia area. This year College Day will be on Sunday October 9th, 2011 at 12pm at Gonzaga College High School… [Read more…]
August 18, 2011
Release courtesy of USA Rugby with additional commentary by Ted Hardy Effective with the opening of the 2011-2012 Membership Season, the USA Rugby Board of Directors named four Geographical Unions (GUs) as part of a pilot program to review a new streamlined union structure. GUs are designed to support anticipated growth in the game and… [Read more…]
June 9, 2011
BOULDER, Colo. – The International Rugby Board (IRB) has amended Regulation 10, specifically the protocol for diagnosing and managing concussion. Featured in the amendments are concrete steps to return to play and the requirement for players to be cleared by a medical practitioner before their return to play. The IRB said in a release last… [Read more…]
March 23, 2011
Texas A&M RFC, The Department of Recreational Sports and the Old Maroon Foundation are happy to announce they will be hosting a Youth Rugby Summer Camp for athletes aged 14– 19 years old July 20-24th, 2011. Within the main camp, there will be a day camp for 9-13 year old players on Saturday July23rd. The… [Read more…]
March 10, 2011
by Ted Hardy, Editor, Rugby America Last weekend’s tragic death of a Fort Collins, Colorado High School rugby player highlights the importance of early heart screenings, even in seemingly healthy athletes. On Saturday March 5th, 17-year-old Poudre High School Junior Matthew Hammerdorfer collapsed during a game and was airlifted to the Medical Center of the… [Read more…]
March 4, 2011
Kicking is, by far, the least served playing skill in America. With players often taking up the game in High School or College, practice time is rarely spent on the finer points of the game. While “go forward” and playing ball in hand are very important parts of the American style of playing rugby, so… [Read more…]
February 24, 2011
by Josh Young, I awoke today to find the second high school girls club folding in two days, first Lynwood, and then Kitsap. With only seven girls teams, now five, in Rugby Washington, this is a huge blow to the existing programs, the girls who thought they were going to play rugby and our sport… [Read more…]
February 21, 2011
Rugby coaches, Greg Mininger and Brian Boyle, from the Northeast Raiders RFC in Pennsylvania have been awarded the prestigious “Double-Goal Coach Award,” presented by Liberty Mutual Insurance and the Positive Coaching Alliance. The Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) is transforming youth sports so sports can transform youth. Through partnership with more than 1,100 youth sports organizations, leagues,… [Read more…]
February 18, 2011
The BYU Rugby program today announced that BYU will hold the first ever Rugby Sports Camp this summer from June 13th-16th. The addition of Rugby to the BYU Sports Camp program has long been a goal of BYU head coach David Smyth and his staff and shows the growing support of rugby in Utah and… [Read more…]
February 1, 2011
One of my rubbing points as a player and now as a coach has been the warmup. Run some laps, stretch a bit, and then get into practice. It’s an easy trap to fall into and even now I find myself falling back, from time to time, into having the kids runs some laps, throw in… [Read more…]
January 29, 2011
In 2009, USA Rugby launched Rookie Rugby, an enormously successful non-contact version of the sport that is safe for kids of all ages that has been introduced to over 350,000 youth players throughout the country. Two years later, USA Rugby is proud to announce the next progression of Rookie Rugby: Rookie Rugby 7s. Introduced at… [Read more…]
January 26, 2011
The Rugby Academy is presenting a conference for rugby coaches, referees and players on Saturday February 5th, 2011 in Washington D.C. “Transforming Knowledge and Experience into Practice” is a day-long event held at Clary Hall on the campus of Gonzaga High School. “We have been talking about the idea for a while and in the… [Read more…]
September 22, 2011
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