GRR: Rugby Illinois
Friends and fans are mourning this week the untimely death of former University of Notre Dame player Zac Plantz.
Plantz, who graduated in the spring of 2015, was a charismatic and emotional leader of the Irish during his tenure there.
Touch Rugby may be the best inroad into getting rugby on the field this fall.
High school and youth programs have probably been the first to officially get the OK to play touch rugby in a competitive format, but this certainly could be the way forward for college and club, as well.
Youth Rugby in Illinois got to go-ahead to hold rugby activities starting this past weekend and several programs were champing at the bit to get going.
Immediately after the announcement that the state of Illinois would allow non-contact practice, various programs ran non-contact sessions.
The 2020-2021 rugby season for Neuqua HS in Naperville, Ill. starts next week.
Neuqua's season in Rugby Illinois may well be in question, but the Naperville, Ill. HS team came away from the Carolina Ruggerfest feeling pretty good about what they could do.