GRR: NIRA Women
This coming weekend, at an event at the Washington Athletic Club in Seattle, West Point tighthead prop Larry Williams will officially be awarded the Rudy Scholz Award as the nation’s top men’s collegiate rugby player.
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.
The high profile of the R7CC Sevens is a massive chance for some of the women's programs involved to get a PR boost, and one of those has to be Queens University.
Dartmouth No. 8 Idia Ihensekhien is the recipient of the 2021-22 MA Sorensen Award as the top women's college rugby player in the country.
Ihensekhien overcame serious injury to lead the Big Green to a National Intercollegiate Rugby Association D1 championship, beating West Point 28-18.
The women's bracket at the USA Rugby Sevens Collegiate Championship (R7CC) are full and set for May 14-15 at Kennesaw State University's Fifth Third Bank Stadium.
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