Article courtesy of IRB.com The IRB has underscored its commitment to delivering annual international Women’s Sevens competition with the first IRB-sanctioned Women’s International Sevens tournament set to take place as part of the Emirates Airline Dubai Rugby Sevens on 2-3 December 2011. The tournament will be integrated with the men’s HSBC Sevens World Series Round… [Read more…]
September 13, 2011
BOULDER, Colo. – Two USA Rugby representatives have been elected to the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) Athletes’ Advisory Council (AAC). Christy Ringgenberg was elected as the AAC rep and James Gillenwater will serve as an alternate. Ringgenberg and Gillenwater applied to be on the AAC and underwent an extensive selection process to eventually be… [Read more…]
September 13, 2011
The first weekend of Women’s Premier League play saw four games with brilliant individual performances that led to hat tricks in two of the four matches. In the first match of the weekend the women from Keystone outscored their Beantown counterparts 19-5 in a defensive struggle on the East Coast. Stacy Baker of Keystone converted… [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…]
April 8, 2011
Release courtesy of the Minnesota Valkyries With the new Lingerie Football League company adding an expansion team in Minneapolis, we are keenly aware of the confusion this can create between our organizations. Although we speak respectfully of this new team, we are in no way affiliated, connected, or associated with the Lingerie Football League or… [Read more…]
April 8, 2011
by Ted Hardy, Editor, Rugby America Photo Credit: Chrisey Buoy A late change to the U19 Girls Regional Tournament in the Pacific Coast Rugby Football Union threatens to derail any notion of a proper seeding process and in the process could alienate an entire state. In August of 2010 the PCRFU Executive Committee decided to host the 2011 PCRFU Girls Regional Tournament in Washington. The tournament,… [Read more…]
April 5, 2011
Article courtesy of IRB.com - Global participation increase of 19% since Rugby World Cup 2007 - Olympic Effect being felt throughout the global Rugby family - IRB investment and hosting strategies driving factors The International Rugby Board has welcomed the findings of a major new study which highlights strong growth in Rugby participation since Rugby… [Read more…]
April 4, 2011
by Tim Maitland of IRB.com Olympic status for Sevens is changing rugby exponentially away from the sport’s heartlands. In part 1 of this series Tim Maitland looked at how 95% of the benefit of being in the Games from 2016 isn’t the money that comes from the IOC, but the investment from individual nations into their sport.… [Read more…]
March 25, 2011
Article courtesy of IRB.com with additional content by Ted Hardy Canada’s women made it two Sevens Cup titles in as many months by beating France 28-14 to claim the Cable & Wireless Women’s Hong Kong crown. Mandy Marchak and her side followed their victory in Las Vegas last month against Netherlands with more hard work… [Read more…]
March 19, 2011
Article courtest of USA Rugby The USA Women’s Sevens team has assembled at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. for a camp in preparation for the Cable and Wireless Worldwide Hong Kong Women’s Sevens tournament on March 25th. The Women’s Eagles will play Japan, Russia, Chinese Taipei, and rivals Canada in Pool B… [Read more…]
February 16, 2011
Canada edged an athletic Netherlands side 17-12 to take the honours in the USA Women’s International Sevens Invitational, played alongside the men’s HSBC World Series event in this past weekend Las Vegas. The tournament featured five nations who competed at the last Rugby World Cup Sevens in 2009 - eventual winners Canada as well as hosts USA, Spain, France… [Read more…]
February 12, 2011
The dust has settled and the USA Women’s 7′s team has fallen short of reaching the semifinals at the Las Vegas International Women’s 7′s Tournament. The squad was edged out by Canada on point differential although the USA had beated the Canadians in pool play and both teams finished with identical 2-1 records in the… [Read more…]
September 16, 2011
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