College Women
After a fairly robust opening weekend last week, NIRA eases off a bit with several cross-divisional games.
Of the six games on the slate, four are across divisions.
A lot has been said and written about what rugby is, how to play it, and how to coach it—the World Rugby laws book alone is 160 pages long—and maybe sometimes too much has been said.
Like an efficiently-run halftime talk (something he addresses), Loc Vetter gets at the heart of the game in less than 80 pages, with most of those pages not completely filled.
Queens University Charlotte’s opening salvo for the NIRA D-I season was a head-turner.
Navy is a very good team and Queens was coming in with a new Head Coach and some expectation of a little turmoil. But Queens came away with an impressive 40-7 win.
Wheeling University’s women’s team played its inaugural game this weekend, defeating Ohio State 30-5 on Saturday.
Dartmouth, Harvard, Sacred Heart, and Queens all logged victories in NIRA's D-I, with four winners in five games.