DIAA College Rugby News
DIAA college teams are on the field this weekend with the Mid-American and the Mid-Atlantic (MAC and MARC, respectively) opening up conference play.
Several other teams have non-conference games against DIA opposition.
It's preseason rugby time and a few teams got some much-needed early action over Labor Day Weekend.
IUPUI opened up its new DI season with a 19-13 defeat of Purdue this past weekend.
Head coach Joe Richards said it was a nice confidence-builder for the program, but not to read too much into the result.
The game was not particularly tidy and both teams looked like exactly what they were — athletic college players who had just returned to campus.
All of the major college champions in the USA.
We will update this with the 2019 7s champions when they happen.
USA Rugby held a Men's DI College championship from 1980 to 2010, and then split DI into DI (at the time called the CPL), and DIAA.
Our College Player Of The Week this week is Cal State Long Beach captain and flyhalf Steven Bodley.