GRR: College Men
The USA U18s won the Corendon Summer Tour U18 bracket with a 47-20 defeat of Belgium U18s.
The USA U20s beat a tough Netherlands team 31-27 to go 3-0 and win the U20 bracket in Amsterdam. Tia'i Vavao was named MVP of the tournament.
The USA U23s lost to Delta 22-16 in a game that, based on previous scores, would have been expected to be much more lopsided.
The USA U23s, which is largely a college team, but not entirely, will finish up the Corendon Summer tour with Saturday's clash against Delta.
Team Delta is a men's team that competes in the Rugby Europe Super Cup. a semi-professional cross-border competition held in the spring.
The University of Tennessee Men's Rugby program is making some changes and will be hiring a Head Coach for a long-term position this summer.
Longtime Head Coach Marty Bradley is moving up to a Director of Rugby role, in part because the increased time demands of coaching college rugby at a high level makes it difficult for him to cover all the bases as the number of bases increases.
(Cal Varsity Rugby Release)—The University of California rugby program welcomes ten new student-athletes to the roster for the 2022-2023 season, the 141st season for the Golden Bears.
Current Saint Mary's rugby players will be directing the player ID and skills camps this coming August.
Lleyton Delzell, Hunter Chuhlantseff, Joe Yacoubian, and Mario Storti are set to work on the camps. We might also see Erich Storti.
They bring a very current approach to the camps and also serve as a way to show high school players what college rugby is like.