GRR: HS Girls
Here are scores from the Girls Brackets at the all-star tournaments around the country.
Rocky Mountain Challenge
Utah 19-5 Colorado
Minnesota 41-5 Missouri
Orem 35-7 Colorado
Utah 19-14 Minnesota
Orem 58-0 Missouri
Sunday
The Washington Loggers sport nine players from state champion and national high school runner-up Kent, while five other clubs bolster the 21-player roster. Parisa Asgharzadeh, who is fresh off of the Seattle Saracens’ DI club championship victory, is head coach and takes the all-star team to the Northwest Regional Cup Tournament (RCT) in Portland, Ore., this weekend.
Last year, Virginia won the Pittsburgh Challenge Cup (aka Mid-Atlantic Regional Cup Tournament) over Empire City 6-0, and that two-penalty-goal loss is not something the New Jersey/New York City-based team wants to repeat. All-star head coach Tom Feury has assembled a star-studded coaching staff and pooled some good talent for a run at the trophy this weekend.
The Regional Cup Tournaments (RCT) are great scouting venues and billed as the primary means by which athletes can be invited to the Stars & Stripes camp, which brings 100 of the top girls and boys high school players together for a week of elite development.
Sometimes creativity is called for when getting grassroots rugby off of the ground, and that’s exactly what Erik Saxon employed when looking to build girls high school rugby in North Carolina.