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HS Boys

1st-Year Team Wins Nevada

In just the team’s first year in existence, the Las Vegas Black Hawks won the Nevada state championship, defeating the Las Vegas Rugby Academy 40-5 in the final.

It was a somewhat astounding result given that almost the entire team is a bunch of rugby rookies, but Head Coach Leonard Nell said the final was the culmination of a long season learning how to play.

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HS Boys

Nevada Crowns HS Champion

Liberty High School won the Nevada State Championship, defeating Coronado in the final.

HS Boys

Nevada Looking at HS 7s League

Las Vegas Rugby Academy founder Vaha Esikia tells Goff Rugby Report that he will be starting a single-school high school 7s in the state.

This is the first in-state high school effort by the Nevada Youth Rugby Organization, aside from the games between the Las Vegas Rugby Academy and Las Vegas Aces.

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College Women

UN Reno Subdues UC Santa Cruz

The women’s DII West Coast got off to a rocky start - a couple of game cancelations and forfeits, a program folded – so interest consolidated around the conference’s top teams. The first match of note occurred last Saturday between UC Santa Cruz - last year's conference runner-up - and perennial contender UN Reno, but the result was somewhat unexpected.

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