GRR: NCR
Virginia Tech defeated the University of Louisville 24-22 to claim their second straight NCR D1AA championship and putting an emphatic stamp on the value of a difficult schedule in honing good rugby players.
Sam Houston State torched Southern Nazarene 66-24 to win the Lonestar Bowl at NCR's championship weekend.
Southern Nazarene is a new school-supported program and is very young. They have produced a solid record, but were up against it facing a big, powerful SHSU side.
This fall produced fully nine women’s collegiate champions on at least a moderately national level.
NIRAThree of them were in the NCAA varsity league, NIRA.
Young Bowdoin Forwards Lead Way to NIRA DIII Title
The Notre Dame College women’s team entered the fall with a number of questions.
The big one was, what would the team look like this year?
With a large number of new recruits as Head Coach Jack Nece worked to build depth, they had some team-building to do.
National Collegiate Rugby has announced that the CRC 7s tournament, which had been held in late May in New Orleans these past two years, will move to April and will be held in the DC area.