GRR: Navy
Glendale, Colo. – The Lt. Col. Kevin Shea Memorial Rugby Cup is returning to Annapolis for the fifth straight season after a dominant 71-0 victory for Navy men’s rugby (5-0, 3-0) over rival Air Force.
We're bringing back our Player of the Week and this week in top-level men's college rugby the Player of the Week is Navy inside back Lewis Gray.
The US Naval Academy has made it official and has added Men's and Women's Rugby as their newest varsity sports.
Men's Head Coach Gavin Hickie is now Director of Rugby, with Murph McCarthy running the Women's program.
Sarah Skinner not only led her US Naval Academy to a national fall D1 championship, she is now a Rhodes Scholar and is set to attend Oxford University in the fall.
The higher-ranked teams all won in the first round of the DIA playoffs Saturday.
BYU and Central Washington won by relatively large margins, while in the lone game in the East, Life had to battle through a tough Navy side.