College Women
The CRAA Women's D1 college playoff brackets are set, with six spots (mostly) up for grabs.
Four teams will play in the first round, while the conference champions from the Rocky Mountain Conference and Rugby Northeast will get a bye.
The seedings for the Women's D1 Elite playoffs this fall aren't exactly set, but we have a pretty good idea how they will go.
Dartmouth wo big over Mount St. Mary's to join Harvard at 4-0 in the NIRA D1 league.
The Big Green women have changed up their approach a little bit, focusing on more of a kicking game and having the talent to execute it, and they followed on from a very good performance over Army a week ago to race past Mount 79-0.
Central Washington followed up on Thursday's 63-12 defeat of Penn State, with a convincing victory over the US Naval Academy 69-8 on Saturday.
“Central Washington has a really strong squad and they played like it today,” said Navy Head Coach Murph McCarthy. “We’re glad they came out from Washington to play us today but we have work to do.”
The effect if varsity NCAA programs is starting to be felt at the national level as the Women’s Rugby World Cup kicks off.
The USA team has three Harvard Rugby alumni on its roster, for example, with Maya Learned, Erica Jarrell, and Jenny Kronish suiting up.
Jarrell was co-captain of the team last season.