GRR: College Men
The US Collegiate Rugby Organization held a conference call the night of Wednesday (April 8) to map out a plan for a new college rugby group.
Sources close to the league say that Major League Rugby will be announcing tonight that it will be instituting a collegiate draft for next season.
Two players from Western Washington University have received scholarships from to attend the Crusaders Rugby Academy in Christchurch, New Zealand, this summer.
The finalists for the Rudy Scholz Award as the top men's college rugby player in the United States have been selected.
A combination of coach/team votes, and fan votes, have whittled the list of nominees down to five finalists. The top fan vote-getter is an automatic finalist, and so is the top team vote-getter (those votes usually logged by coaches or team presidents).
Cal Head Coach Jack Clark had a pretty good team this year and might have ended the year national champion, but all of that is moot as the COVID-19 shutdown has put more important things on the front-burner.