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Behind every great athlete is a great coach...
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Dear Rugby Supporter,
The United States Rugby Football Foundation (USRFF) is in the running for a $250,000 grant from the Pepsi Refresh Project and they need your help. The USRFF will use the money to purchase 30,000 rugby...
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By Dave Curtis
TWO SEASONS AGO, with Redwood High alum Sam Sirell playing a starring role, the Marin Highlanders Rugby Football Club's varsity squad claimed the Redwood Empire Rugby Conference championship, an effort that helped Sirrell earn a chance to play at UCLA, which...
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BOULDER, Colo. - Phaidra Knight is tough. She is going to play in her third Women’s Rugby World Cup for the Women Eagles this month and has been hailed as one of the best female rugby players on...
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In 1995, newly elected South African President Nelson Mandela saw rugby as a tool to inspire unity among his countrymen, who had been alienated from each other for so many years by apartheid.
Ten years later in the Bronx, N.Y., high school history teacher Lisa Lake had a similar vision:...
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By Joel A. Erickson
Rugby has earned a rough-and-tumble reputation over the years.
Toss around the idea of a child being in a scrum, a ruck or a maul, and most parents are ready to steer their kid to a safer sport like football. Or...
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FARMER'S KORNER — With the seconds ticking down and her team trailing 10-7, the frustration started to mount for Summit's Alex Cooper. The speedy senior, who's a breakaway threat every time she touches the ball, hadn't gotten loose for a single long run all...
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Tom Hatfield, with the East Harlem Girls team, is one of six University of Glamorgan students who were rugby coaching in the US
A student rugby union coach has described how teenage girls in the New York neighbourhood of Harlem were won over to the game.
Tom...
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Aiken rugby player Alex Paczynski recently completed a two-week stay in the United Kingdom, where he got to play with the big boys.
Paczynski plays scrumhalf - a position similar to the quarterback position in football - for the Aiken Lions, Aiken's high school rugby team. URS sponsors...
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By PAT EATON-ROBB
HARTFORD, Conn. — Quinnipiac University plans to keep its women's volleyball team and its competitive cheer squad as it follows a court order to bring its athletics programs into compliance with federal gender-equity requirements.
Under a plan...
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