GRR: All-Time Americans
Alycia Washington is a dynamic, exciting rugby player who performs superbly in any arena—open play, 7s, 15s, and down and dirty in the mud if need be—and that seems completely at odds with her personality.
Fred Paoli seemed old school even when he was playing back in the 1980s and 90s.
An accomplished football player at Colorado State, where was one of the captains on the defensive side of the ball, Paoli took up rugby as his football career wound down, and he took to it brilliantly.
This piece of All-Time American Rugby Players recognition comes in large part thanks to ivyrugby.com.
In the late 1800s colleges played a form of football that was essentially rugby. Over time they adopted rules variations (much as Aussie Rules, Gaelic Football, and Association Football did) and turned it into American Football.
A hockey player throughout her formative years and on into college, Alev Kelter also played soccer and quickly showed herself to be a natural athlete.
Skip Niebauer was one of the top American rugby players even before there was a national team to play for.
A central part of an excellent UCLA team in the early 1970s he was also part of the all University of California system team that toured Australia and New Zealand.