High School Boys
The Southern California Interscholastic Rugby Federation league has announced how it will adjust its season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The SCIRF is a league of single-school boys HS teams that follow California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) regulations and usually plays from December through February.
AIC has announced a long list of talented recruits for both the men's and the women's programs.
The YellowJackets bring in players from as far away as the Czech Republic, as well as closer to home in Massachusetts. AIC brings in players from 11 different states.
While rugby has been shut down through much of the country, Utah Youth Rugby was able to run a series of modified 7s games for high school teams during July.
Many of the well-known teams within Utah played, both boys and girls. United, Herriman, West Valley, East HS, Wasatch, Copper Hills, Genesis, Kearns, Olympus, and Brighton, to name just a few, were involved.
USA Youth & HS (the governing organization for the sport for younger players) continues to push for a negotiation with USA Rugby over what USA Rugby does, and how much it should all cost.
A large meeting among Youth & HS representatives were given a presentation by the Executive Committee on where USAY&HS stands.
Rugby Indiana held an outreach and fundraising event this past weekend at the Hickory Hall Polo Club in Indianapolis.
That, perhaps is what made this event relatively unique—unless they are sharing playing space, you don't think of rugby and polo mixing. But Executive Director Wayne Eells wanted to shake things up.