GRR: 7s
While rugby has been shut down through much of the country, Utah Youth Rugby was able to run a series of modified 7s games for high school teams during July.
Many of the well-known teams within Utah played, both boys and girls. United, Herriman, West Valley, East HS, Wasatch, Copper Hills, Genesis, Kearns, Olympus, and Brighton, to name just a few, were involved.
World Rugby has announced a change to the 2020-2021 HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series.
After earlier shuttering the rest of the 2019-2020 season and declaring the existing standings leaders the champions (New Zealand for both men and women, as it happened), World Rugby has now been forced to adjust the coming season as well.
After a highly successful New York 7s campaign that saw the Met NY Collegiate Selects go undefeated to win the Cup, scoring 182 pts and allowing just 42 in 5 games, the AC Rugby Foundation has looked to expand its outreach by backing a collegiate selects 15s team.
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games organizing committee and the International Olympic Committee have announced the revised competition schedule for the Tokyo Olympic Games, including the rugby competition.
The Games, of course, were postponed a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic with the Opening Ceremony now set for 23 July 2021.
World Rugby has canceled the rest of the 2019-2020 Sevens World Series due to the COVID-19 pandemic; the tournaments that had been moved to the fall are now canceled.
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