So we've done it; we've finally come up with a Girls HS ranking.
It has taken a while because of a variety of factors, the main one being that leagues were slow to get going, and many of them are playing 7s, or 10s, or a combination of 7s, 10,s, or 15s. How do you compare them? Do you split them up, 7s and 15s? And as you consider this and wait and wonder more and more games get played and you're chasing your tail.
Well, we think we might have caught our tail. Here is what we did:
1. Give additional credit to anyone who is playing regularly. Give more credit to 15s than 7s. The games are more similar in girls rugby than they are in boys rugby, and we felt we could at least make an attempt to compare these teams directly. If there's a team that we know historically is also good at 15s and could easily make the switch, they get a little boost. Hence Fallbrook and Summit being ranked especially high despite only playing 7s. We rank Kent in here because of those reasons also, and only those reasons because we've seen not one single result from the Evergreen State—Rugby Washington's distressing inability to post results is getting on our nerves by the way.
Wisconsin HS Girls Teams Celebrate the Game in Bruiser
Our rankings of the teams in Utah and Ohio are difficult because we don't have a situation where one team beat everyone else. Everyone lost to someone else. United winning the Utah playoffs bumps them up (another rule of ours, playoffs and major championships count extra) and Brunswick tops the Ohio teams simply because we think we can dismiss their one loss as just a bad day.
So here it is:
> Goff Rugby Report Girls HS Rankings 2021 #1 2021 | ||
| Rank | Team | Notes |
| 1 | DSHA (WI) | 2-0 in Midwest, beat Catholic Memorial |
| 2 | Mountain View (ID) | Undefeated in Idaho |
| 3 | Tigress (NC) | Undefeated across several states |
| 4 | Catholic Memorial (WI) | 2-0 in Midwest, lost 7-0 to DSHA |
| 5 | Summit (CO) | Won CIRA |
| 6 | Fallbrook (CA) | Undefeated in SoCal 7s league |
| 7 | Doylestown (PA) | Top team into PA playoffs |
| 8 | United (UT) | Won playoffs in Utah after finishing 3rd |
| 9 | Monarch (CO) | Close 2nd in CIRA |
| 10 | Raptors (TN) | Top team in Tennessee |
| 11 | Morris (NJ) | Beat Downingtown in PA |
| 12 | Majestics (UT) | Top in regular season in Utah |
| 13 | Provo (UT) | Close 2nd in Utah |
| 14 | Brunswick (OH) | 3-1 in tight Ohio league. |
| 15 | SE Polk (IA) | Undefeated in Iowa 7s |
| 16 | Los Alamitos (CA) | Lost only once in SoCal, to Fallbrook |
| 17 | Land Park Harlequins (CA) | Strong in NorCal so far |
| 18 | Highland (OH) | Lost only to Brunswick |
| 19 | Walnut Hills (OH) | Lost only to Brunswick |
| 20 | Sac PAL (CA) | Strong in NorCal so far |
| 21 | Thunder (CA) | Strong results in SoCal, close loss to Los Alamitos |
| 22 | Minnetonka (MN) | Undefeated in Minnesota 7s |
| 23 | Moon Area (PA) | Beat St. Joseph Academy |
| 24 | St. Joseph Academy (OH) | Good results but not perfect in Ohio |
| 25 | West Carroll (MD) | Undefeated in Mid-Atlantic league |
| 26 | DM Roosevelt (IA) | 2nd in Iowa 7s |
| 27 | Lamorinda (CA) | Strong in NorCal so far |
| 28 | Albert Lea (MN) | Undefeated in Minnesota 7s |
| 29 | North Bay (MD) | Undefeated in Mid-Atlantic league |
| 30 | Kent Crusaders (WA) | We're making a guess here. |
