College Women
CRAA’s new Director of Women’s Rugby, Tiff Lopez, has some work to do at the top and at the bottom of the ladder.
From a major collegiate program struggling to find opponents because they are thought to be too powerful () to programs that need help getting on the field, Lopez has a diverse flock to shepherd.
Central Washington’s women’s rugby team still exists.
If you take anything from this article, take that away … CWU women’s rugby will take the field this coming academic year.
National Collegiate Rugby has split its women's D1.
Essentially the competitions will mirror their men's competition, with a D1 level that is a level above what will now be D1AA.
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.