College Women
It was a close win for Army but was it enough to get 2nd place?
While Dartmouth enjoyed the culmination of an undefeated run with an astonishing 85-0 defeat of Brown over the weekend, thanks to four tries from Ariana Ramsey—four tries in a row, actually—Army and Harvard were in a battle.
The seeding for this fall's D1 Elite will be based on the regular season and we have a better idea of where everything will shake out.
Not every one of the four teams will play the other three. Penn State doesn't play Lindenwood but have already played the other two; meanwhile Lindenwood, Life, and Central Washington all do play each other and Lindenwood plays Life twice.
National Collegiate Rugby (NCR) will bring back the nation's largest collegiate All-Star events back to Texas this coming January.
Held over consecutive weekends, the men's and women's tournaments will be held in Houston and Austin, respectively.
As the CRAA / ACRA women's D2 college playoffs coming together, one team with an excellent shot at doing something is Kutztown.
The Golden Bears ran away from TCNJ over the weekend to win their final regular season game and look ahead to the MARC playoffs. After winning their last game by a large margin, KU was tested this time around, and led only 7-5 at halftime.
Several teams are bubbling to the top in NCR’s Women’s D1 college competition.
With sanity prevailing and Life University’s development not in the competition this year (the Life U. youngsters won comfortably in 2021), the chase is a more crowded one.
However, there remains a striking disparity between school-supported teams and club teams.