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Life Women vs Peaks Academy at the 2025 CRAA Fall Classic. Photo Calder Cahill.
College Women

Peaks Offers Much-Needed Challenge for Life Women in Upstate Challenge Bowl

Life University's women's team has had a fall full of lopsided scores, but this weekend they encountered a unique challenge.

Playing in the Upstate Challenge Bowl at the CRAA Fall Classic, the Running Eagles took on a team of USA hopefuls and top collegiate players under the banner of the Peaks Academy.

Life hones their skills.
College Women

A Unique Matchup as Life Women Face Peaks Academy in CRAA Fall Classic

The CRAA Fall Classic brings a special and unique women’s game to the weekend.

National College Rugby
College Women

NCR Replaces and Sanctions Wheeling; UNI in WD1 Final with SNU

National Collegiate Rugby has officially confirmed that Wheeling will not play in the Women's D1 final scheduled for December 6 in Houston.

Wheeling has pulled out after an incident following their semifinal win that led to the firing of Head Coach Ken Pape.

Ken Pape led Wheeling to a NCR D1 championship in 2024 and the final in 2025.
College Women

Pape Out as Wheeling Women's Coach

Ken Pape has reportedly been fired from his Women’s Head Coach position at Wheeling University; the team’s website pages now have removed Pape from the list of coaches for the team.

According to a multiple sources, Pape, whose Wheeling team is set to play Southern Nazarene in the NCR Women’s D1 final this coming weekend, is out of a job immediately.

2024 CRAA Fall Classic action. Photo Calder Cahill.

CRAA Classic Offers Impressive Showdowns in South Carolina

It's a big week in collegiate rugby and the CRAA Fall Classic is part of that.

The games return to the Louis P. Howell Athletic Complex at University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg, SC. 

All games are live on YouTube here>>

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