The Year of Dark Horses? Our CRC 7s Women Preview
The CRC Women's 7s is set for this weekend and the four brackets of 16 teams provide tough competition for 64 teams across the divisions.
D3
What used to be the small-college teams are now D3 and generally what happens in this bracket is that teams successful in 15s also do well in 7s. That's not always true in every division but it is true here.
Tiahna Padilla Wins 2026 MA Sorensen Award
Harvard flyhalf/center and playmaker Tiahna Padilla has won the 2026 MA Sorensen Award as the nation's top woman collegiate rugby player.
Padilla already reached a milestone this season as she has been a finalist for the Sorensen Award an astonishing four straight times, a testament to her consistently high performance.
Quinnipiac Drops Rugby as a Women's Varsity Sport
Quinnipiac University has announced that it will discontinue women's rugby as a NCAA varsity spot, and will instead add men's distance running to their list of spots.
This announcement comes as a blow in part because Quinnipiac was among the first NCAA programs and Head Coach Rebecca Carlson has been at the forefront of pushing for full NCAA for women's rugby.
Finalists for 2026 MA Sorensen Award Named
The finalists for the 2026 MA Sorensen Award have been selected.
With votes from the MA Sorensen Selection Committee, along with votes from the collegiate rugby community—fans, players, and coaches—have whittled the list of nominees down to the finalists.
Life Sparkles in Lightning-Shortened Women's D1 Final
Life University is, as expected, the CRAA Women's D1 champions.
The way they accomplished that feat was, unfortunately, not what anyone would have wanted. Their quarterfinal game was a forfeit. Their semifinal game was won by three digits. Their final was called early.
