High School Boys
Top boys high school rugby teams who want to play for a national championship need to apply to be invited.
While the Boys Rugby National High School Championship is an invitation tournament, the invitations are based on current record, past success, and ability to make the trip (this year the BHSRNC is in Kansas City).
It's still quiet times in the single-school leagues, but we've got some results, especially from Southern California.
The SoCal single-school teams will finish up in the middle of the spring, so it's very difficult for them to keep a really high ranking, but we'll give them the benefit of the doubt now and see how it all shakes out.
Rain hit the HS schedule pretty hard this past weekend, but we did get some games and some standout performances.
Here's a look at who played well.
Josh Schnell, Katy Barbarians
The Katy threequarter scored two long-range tries in a 29-22 win over Westlake.
The Katy Barbarians pulled off something of a small upset in the early going in Rugby Texas, with a preseason 29-22 victory over defending state champs Westlake.
Eagle Impact Rugby Academy has announced that it has brought on Brendan Keane full-time to serve as Associate Director alongside Director Salty Thompson.
Keane has been working for several years with the EIRA program in various capacities, kick-starting the Carolinas chapter while he was a teacher and rugby coach at Charlotte Catholic HS, and then coaching the EIRA U16s and U17s.