College Women
The Tri-State Rugby Conference has announced that it will not have a rugby competition this fall.
Several universities in the conference have suspended inter-collegiate competition and many club sports have followed suit.
So the Tri-State Conference, men and women, will not support a competition and announced that all games are suspended. Teams will also not be charged dues.
The Women's NCAA league has announced there will be no DIII league this coming fall.
National Intercollegiate Rugby Association Commissioner Amy Rusert distributed this announcement:
Various organizations within USA Rugby have some form of leverage.
NCR has a potential membership pool of 15,000, and a large percentage of that pool is happy to play rugby within their own competitive group. Thus, the potential threat from USA Rugby to ban cross-divisional play between NCR teams and non-NCR teams carries little weight with those teams.
The NCAA Board of Governors was expected today to announce a halting or delay of fall sports championships, but stopped short of that recommendation.
Here's our first look at what various states are doing with regard to return to school (High School and College) and return to sports.