High School Boys
Carlsbad, Los Alamatos, and Coronado all won in Southern California's Winter Multi-School Varsity season.
The North American Lions have named their two rosters for their June 7s tours.
Both the boys and the girls U18 teams will play at the Heidelberg 7s in Heidelberg, Germany as a warmup and then the United World Games in Klagenfurt, Australia.
The Heidelberg Youth 7s will be June 17-18 in the home of Germany's oldest and most famous university (it's over 600 years old).
Slowly the season are getting started.
This week Texas and Florida kick off. Texas has a new single-school team conference in action, which is mostly, but not all, Catholic schools. We are seeing a small wave of new school teams around the country. SoCal has them, Texas is adding a couple, and North Carolina, too.
More than 80 young rugby players braved the cold weather for the latest High-Performance Clinic with Old Glory Academy Director Ben Cima.
This group included high school and middle school boys and girls. Instruction was blended with games to reinforce the skills taught at the clinic.
High-profile HS teams at the Storer Classic started off strong despite the rainy weather.
With rain a constant feature in Southern California these days, teams have eschewed the typical regional response to drops of water out of the sky (that is, they run screaming for shelter), and instead have done the best they could to practice and play.