GRR: Awards
Jillion Potter's rugby rise was metioric and the end of her career far too abrupt, but in the middle of it she was as good as they come.
Is he the most intense rugby player the USA ever produced? There have been a lot of intense men and women, but it's hard to imagine anyone outworking Tom Billups.
Rudy Scholz had such an impact on the game that his name adorns the award for the top men's college player in the US.
A graduate of Santa Clara University, where he played rugby, Scholz was a decorate veteran of World War I, and then returned to Belgium and France as part pf the USA Olympic rugby team in 1920 and 1924.
We strong case could be made for Carlin Isles being the USA Men's 7s Player of the Decade.
Since Kathy Flores has been a coach for so long, winning regular national championships with the Berkeley All Blues, coaching the USA Women's National Team for ten years, and now coaching at Brown, it's easy to forget she was a player.