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.
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.
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.
Wheeling, SNU Impress in NCR D1 Women Semis
Wheeling University and Southern Nazarene will be in the NCR D1 Women's final after both won their semifinals Saturday.
SNU defeated BYU 34-28 in an impressive showing over a team expected by many to make this new competition's championship match in Houston. The Crimson Storm ...
We Judge The Women's College-Club Competitions
So, this article was supposed to be something else.
We started with the idea of writing about the new hybrid women's D1 college competition, which includes teams pushing exclusively for the NCR fall playoffs, and teams that are also looking at the CRAA spring playoffs.
