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MA Sorensen presents the award named after her to Freda Tafuna at the 2025 WAC Awards dinner in Seattle, Wash. Photo Quinn Toomey.
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Help Nominate a Player for the MA Sorensen Award

Help the Washington Athletic Club finalize its nomination list for the MA Sorensen Award!

Given every year to the nation's top women's collegiate rugby player, the Sorensen has honored the very best since 2016. The eventual winner will be feted at the gala event in Seattle in June.

Your contribute can help find the winner!

Grand Canyon vs Cal from spring of 2025. Photo J Dalton Photography.
College Women

Women's College Rugby Gets Going on the West Coast

Women’s collegiate rugby is back on in the West Coast, and here’s a look at what happened last week and where we are going forward.

Pacific Desert D1

Grand Canyon opened their Pacific Desert D1 account with a well-taken 43-3 win over Arizona.

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Retired Eagles Star Nate Augspurger Takes College Coaching Position

Recently-retired Eagle Nate Augspurger has a new job.

The 50-cap 15s national team player, who also played 7s for the USA, has returned to his home state of Minnesota to become Director of Rugby and Men’s Head Coach for St. John’s University Men’s Rugby and College of Saint Benedict Women’s Rugby.    

Nate Wiater for Green Bay Leprechauns, and soon UNC Charlotte.

College Commits List Powered by Next Phase Rugby

With this first list of commits for the fall of 2026, we are struck by how many of these listed players use Next Phase Rugby.

Full discloser—not all of the players listed are Next Phase student-athletes, but a massive proportion of them are. They used the Next Phase Rugby app to expand their list and expand their options, or they use the app to narrow down their list.

Vivian Studdert gets set to pass the ball during the Crusaders Global player residency this past year.
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Crusaders Player Residency Helps Studdert Take a Massive Leap Forward

When the Stanford University women's coaching staff approached Vivian Studdert with the idea that she go to New Zealand for the Crusaders Global Player Residency, her response was essentially, "who, me?"

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