Team News
Varsity Cup Finalizes Brackets
NEW YORK – The Varsity Cup has released the brackets for its 2017 playoff today, Feb. 22.
Fourteen well-regarded college teams will compete in a four-weekend playoffs. Two teams - the top finishers from 2016 that remain in the competition - will get a bye.
PSU Rambles Past Navy
(Thanks to Colleen McCloskey for the photos - Navy in solid blue, Penn State in stripes) - Penn State and Navy met up Saturday in what was essentially the teams' kickoff to their Varsity Cup buildup.
Naval Academy to Hold Boys Camp
The US Naval Academy has announced it will hold its first ever camp for high school boys.
The camp will run June 19-22, and will be for boys 13 to 17 years old.
Campers will learn and develop basic skills, contact skills, scrummaging, other set piece, and game awareness from members of the USNA coaching staff, overseen by Head Coach Mike Flanagan.
Varsity Cup Names List of 2017 Teams
NEW YORK City (Varsity Cup Release) – The 2017 Penn Mutual Varsity Cup Rugby Championship kicks off once again this April with 14 teams vying in the April postseason to advance to May’s championship final.
A Look at Independent Fall College Schedules
Conference play is the goal of USA Rugby’s Collegiate Rugby division, and they are looking to get those that played independent schedules to find a conference for next season.
But at the same time, the world of college rugby conferences is fluid, and we’re unlikely to find that in 2017-18 everything will be settled.
