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As hinted at in the below video, Major League has now dropped to eight teams.
The Miami Sharks, two days after their CEO Milagros Cubelli was named Executive of the Year, multiple sources are telling GRR or reporting elsewhere that the Sharks are out of the league and ceasing operations.
Iowa Central Community College is launching a women’s team and has hired Matt Ramirez as the Head Coach.
Ramirez was the Women’s Head Coach at Central Washington, which lost its varsity funding in May. He was an assistant and Head Coach at CWU since 2018.
One of the upshots of the changes is Women’s D1A College is to leave Life University isolated both geographically and in terms of competition.
D1A (formerly D1 Elite) lost Central Washington when the school pulled the program’s funding, and lost Lindenwood as they move to NIRA.
Loyola University of New Orleans is announcing that it will field varsity rugby programs for men and women, and have hired former NOLA Gold General Manager Ryan Fitzgerald as a Director of Rugby.
The deadline for applying for the 2025 Major League Rugby draft has been extended to August 13.
The old deadline was July 30.
The reason for the change is because the old deadline was set with an anticipated draft in early August. That draft is now slated for around August 21 or so (to be confirmed), so the deadline can be extended.