by Ted Hardy The Denver 7′s LLC. have announced the date for the 44th Annual Denver 7’s Tournament. One of the longest and best run tournaments in the nation is back for another exciting season. The tournament is set for Saturday July 23rd, 2011 at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. Played on five full sized rugby pitched located… [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…]
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 18, 2011
The team comprised of former Eagles scrumhalf John Mickel, Jeff Mickel, Justin Findlay and Cary Duckworth are this year’s US Rugby Football Foundation Scrumble champions after shooting a Scrumble record score of 20 under par. While the weather and course conditions at the Siena Golf Club were ideal for low scores, this year’s Scrumble got off to… [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 17, 2011
The TRY (Tomorrow’s Rugby Youth) Donation Program is looking for teams across America that are in need of assistance with equipment or practice jerseys for the upcoming season. The program was launched late in 2010 and has grown very fast. Donations have already flooded the home office requiring a shift to a second location to house the… [Read more…]
February 5, 2011
USA Rugby and Sports Authority announced a new partnership this past week that includes a initiative to place 10,000 rugby balls in the hands of youth across America. Sports Authority is now the official sporting goods retailer of USA Rugby. An industry leader, Sports Authority plans to provide USA Rugby members with exclusive, unprecedented member… [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 27, 2011
USA Rugby has officially announced that Kurt Weaver will replace Mark Griffin as the Director of Youth and High School Rugby. Weaver has youth rugby experience as a player, coach, referee, and administrator. He will officially take the reins of the youth department in late February. “Kurt’s experience in the State-Based Rugby Organization [SBRO] structure is… [Read more…]
January 25, 2011
Team USA wasn’t the only ones playing rugby at the Olympic Training Center. As the team prepares for the next two legs of the HSBC World Series, this past weekend over 550 youth rugby players under the age of 14 converged on the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California to compete in the “Olympic 7s… [Read more…]
January 17, 2011
Everyone has 2016 circled on their calendars for the debut of Olympic Rugby, but an earlier taste may be in order. While the final list of sports has yet to be officially announced, the 2014 Nanjing Twitter account confirmed that newly minted Olympic sports rugby and golf will actually make their Olympic debut at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games… [Read more…]
January 11, 2011
The BYU Cougars recently returned from St. George, UT and Dixie State College where they participated as mentors at the Propel Rugby Academy “Winter Warm-Up” Clinic. The Cougars spent last Friday & Saturday with over 100 male and female rugby players in the high school to youth age groups from Southern Utah, Nevada and even… [Read more…]
March 11, 2011
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