College Women
Rich Ashfield has been named Director of Rugby at Stanford University.
Ashfield, who has been serving as interim Head Coach of the USA Women's 15s National Team, will be overseeing operations for both the men's and women's teams at Stanford.
Who is what and where in college rugby?
The National Intercollegiate Rugby Association has some warmup work to do but the D1 season gets going in earnest in a little over a week.
With the addition of Navy and Queens into D1 the top level of the competition is as competitive as ever.
Cal State Long Beach women have brought in Rudy Bautista as their new head coach.
Bautista used to coach Los Alamitos HS girls and he has working with him a staff of three assistants: Jocelyn Ortizano, Leeanne Nguyen, and Crystal Elston..
Sierra Boyajian will serve as treasurer.
The demise of Alderson Broaddus University is something of a cautionary tale within American collegiate rugby.