2016 A Look Back - April
April 2016 kicked off with the meat of the college and HS seasons.
The women's Varsity 7s series started - Quinnipiac Edges AIC in 1st Women's Varsity 7s - as the concept of a varsity-only women's college season started to take stronger hold.
Dan Payne Answers Questions in Live Chat
USA Rugby CEO Dan Payne held a live video Facebook chat Friday, answering questions from rugby people around the country and overseas.
2016 A Look Back - March
March rolled in like a lion with the USA 7s in Las Vegas, followed by a new World Series tournament in Vancouver.
Both were huge successes, with Vancouver selling out all available seats - allowing them to open the upper deck at BC Place for 2017 - and Vegas continues to grow, and will even more so with the Women’s World Series USA stop moving to Sin City as well.
2016 A Look Back - January
January, 2016 started with the news that the USA Men’s National Team had a new coach - John Mitchell.
The search had taken some time following the 2015 Rugby World Cup. For a while, previous Head Coach Mike Tolkin was in a sort of limbo waiting for decisions to be made. Meanwhile, a search was on and Mitchell, who ran the All Blacks in the early 2000s, came on board.
PRO Update - Publicity Born out of Talks
The ongoing discussions between USA Rugby and PRO Rugby USA is about PRO wanting to extend the league's sanctioning agreement past the current three-year deal.
