GRR: NIRA Women
The National Intercollegiate Rugby Association, the competition for women's NCAA varsity programs, will start its D1 season on September 3 with an expanded number of teams.
Princeton joins the D1 conference.
Today is the 50th Anniversary of Title IX being signed into law.
Colby-Sawyer College and Adrian College are both looking for candidates for Head Coach positions with their women's programs.
Colby-Sawyer is actually a Director of Rugby position combined with being the women's Head Coach; the previous Head Coach and DOR, Ed McKenna, just took a non-rugby administrative position at Dartmouth College.
This coming weekend, at an event at the Washington Athletic Club in Seattle, West Point tighthead prop Larry Williams will officially be awarded the Rudy Scholz Award as the nation’s top men’s collegiate rugby player.
The US Naval Academy has made it official and has added Men's and Women's Rugby as their newest varsity sports.
Men's Head Coach Gavin Hickie is now Director of Rugby, with Murph McCarthy running the Women's program.