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CRAA Women's 7s Set for This Weekend

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CRAA Women's 7s Set for This Weekend

D1 Elite and NIRA cross over. Lindenwood vs Harvard in 2023. Alex Goff photo.

The College Rugby Association of America is hosting a women's 7s championship during CRAA's championship weekend in Houston May 3-5.

Two brackets will be in action: a Women's Premier which is composed of 10 D1 Elite and NIRA teams; and a Club-level bracket consisting of teams not in those two leagues.

Here are the pools:

Premier 7s Pool A: Life, Dartmouth, Central Washington, Davenport, Princeton

Premier 7s Pool B: Lindenwood, Harvard, Sacred Heart, Penn State, LIU

All teams will play four pool games, with the first three for most of the teams being played on Friday, May 3. The fourth pool match for eight of the 10 teams will be played on Saturday morning. After that, the top two teams from each pool will face off in the semifinals in the early afternoon on Saturday. The final will be played at 5:28PM on Saturday, just before the men's D1A final.

Life and Lindenwood are the two teams that will play four games on Friday.

Women's College Club-Team 7s Pool A: Colorado State, UCLA, San Jose State, Air Force

Women's College Club-Team 7s Pool B: Colorado Mesa, Western Washington, Cal Poly SLO, UC Irvine 

In the Club bracket, all eight teams will play three pool games on Friday. Once again the top two teams from each pool will enter the cup semifinals; those games will be played on Saurday morning. The final will be played at 4:44PM on Saturday afternoon.

The Rugby Network will be live-streaming the games from Aveva Stadium and of the 47 planned games in the two tournaments, 33 will be in the stadium. Six of the 12 Club-team pool games will be on Field 1 outside the stadium. However, every Club team will get at least one pool game in the stadium.

Understanding that there could late schedule and timing changes, here is the schedule we have:

Friday May 3
Stadium   Field 1
Team Team Pool Time Team Team Pool
CSU AFA Club Pool A 9:00      
UCLA SJSU Club Pool A 9:22      
Life Dartmouth Prem Pool A 9:44 CMU UC Irvine Club Pool B
CWU Davenport Prem Pool A 10:06 WWU Cal Poly Club Pool B
Lindenwood Harvard Prem Pool B 10:28      
SHU Penn State Prem Pool B 10:50      
             
Princeton Life Prem Pool A 11:34      
Dartmouth CWU Prem Pool A 11:56      
LIU Lindenwood Prem Pool B 12:18 CSU SJSU Club Pool A
Harvard SHU Prem Pool B 12:40 UCLA AFA Club Pool A
CMU Cal Poly Club Pool B 13:02      
WWU UC Irvine Club Pool B 13:24      
             
Davenport Princeton Prem Pool A 14:08      
CWU Life Prem Pool A 14:30      
Penn State LIU Prem Pool B 14:52      
SHU Lindenwood Prem Pool B 15:14      
CSU UCLA Club Pool A 15:36 SJSU AFA Club Pool A
CMU WWU Club Pool B 15:58 Cal Poly UC Irvine Club Pool B
             
Life Davenport Prem Pool A 16:42      
Dartmouth Princeton Prem Pool A 17:04      
Lindenwood Penn State Prem Pool B 17:26      
Harvard LIU Prem Pool B 17:48      
             
Saturday May 4
Stadium   Field 1
Team Team Pool Time Team Team Pool
1st Pool A 2nd Pool B Cup Semi 9:02 3rd Pool A 4th Pool B Plate Semi
1st Pool B 2nd Pool A Cup Semi 9:24 3rd Pool B 4th Pool A Plate Semi
Penn State Harvard Prem Pool B 9:46 Davenport Dartmouth Prem Pool A
Princeton CWU Prem Pool A 10:08 LIU SHU Prem Pool B
Pool A #1 Pool B #2 Cup Semi 12:42      
Pool B #1 Pool A #2 Cup Semi 13:04      
      14:54 Pool A #5 Pool B #5 9th
Pool A #3 Pool B #3 5th 16:00 W Pl. SF W Pl. SF 5th
L Cup SF L Cup SF Bronze Final 16:22      
W15 W16 Cup Final 16:44      
L Cup SF L Cup SF Bronze Final 17:06      
W21 W22 Cup Final 17:28