GRR: Tournaments
The Puriri Memorial Invitational is set for this coming weekend in St. George, Utah.
This tournament is a traditional kickoff tournament for teams in Utah and in neighboring states. For the past few years this tournament has been named in honor of Ra Puriri, the father of longtime Utah HS coaches Colin and Michael Puriri.
The Tropical 7s has confirmed its teams for this year's massive tournament.
Held on Easter Weekend each year, the tournament will be in March for 2024 because Easter is early this year. Fields open on Wednesday March 27 for training and the tournament will run March 29-30 at the Tournament Sportsplex of Tampa Bay in Florida.
The brackets are:
Maryland Exiles Youth Rugby Club is hosting its three-day Youth & High School Rugby Festival in April.
This tournament will run Friday April 5 to Sunday, April 7 at King Farm Park in Rockville, Md. This is a 15-a-side tournament and will have seven divisions: Boys HS Elite, Girls HS Elite, Boys HS Varsity, Girls HS Open, Boys HS JV, Girls Middle School, and Boys MIddle School.
As always the Storer Classic provides some important preseason rugby for teams in the West, and this year did not disappoint.
There were several solid showings with SOC Raptors, Marin, Carlsbad, and Layton Christian all producing some good results. Atop all of those was Belmont Shore, which ended the weekend 3-0.
Leading youth rugby clubs hailing from Southern and Northern California, as well ass Arizona, have announced the inaugural Pacific Coast Invitational.
Set against the iconic backdrop of Treasure Island in San Francisco, this premier youth rugby tournament is scheduled for May 17-18, 2024.