GRR: HS Girls
USA Youth & HS (the governing organization for the sport for younger players) continues to push for a negotiation with USA Rugby over what USA Rugby does, and how much it should all cost.
A large meeting among Youth & HS representatives were given a presentation by the Executive Committee on where USAY&HS stands.
Rugby Indiana held an outreach and fundraising event this past weekend at the Hickory Hall Polo Club in Indianapolis.
That, perhaps is what made this event relatively unique—unless they are sharing playing space, you don't think of rugby and polo mixing. But Executive Director Wayne Eells wanted to shake things up.
Various organizations within USA Rugby have some form of leverage.
NCR has a potential membership pool of 15,000, and a large percentage of that pool is happy to play rugby within their own competitive group. Thus, the potential threat from USA Rugby to ban cross-divisional play between NCR teams and non-NCR teams carries little weight with those teams.
Here's our latest list of college commits sorted alphabetically by university.
Big recruiting summer for Grand Canyon, St. Bonaventure, Queens University Charlotte, Life, Kentucky, Iona, Davenport, Central Washington, and Mount St. Mary's.
What high school sports governing bodies do about fall sports will have a direct effect on what happens with rugby, even though only one state, Massachusetts, runs a competition under the official auspices of its scholastic athletic association.