College Women
As the fall season comes to a close, there are already glimpses of the action that awaits in the spring. West Coast teams have played each other at tournaments like Scrum by the Sea and Stanford 7s, and the Pacific Mountain Conference has held North Division games.
The women’s DI college fall championship has been the toughest competition to figure out, but now that it’s set, let’s see what’s occurring this weekend.
The DII fall championship enters its penultimate weekend, as the field of 16 shrinks down to four semifinalists. A lot of playoff rugby has occurred since our previous rankings, and we lend some explanation to the moves.
Cincinnati is only four years old as a program, and the team is hoping to progress farther into the DII fall championship than it did last year. In 2014, UC’s run ended in the Round of 16 against a very strong Ithaca College, but the team has picked up some lessons since then, and readies for the Midwest regionals this weekend in Pittsburgh.
The National Collegiate Women’s Varsity Rugby Association (NCWVRA) inaugurated its first-ever playoffs last weekend, and the quarterfinal victors will now convene at Brown University for the final four on Friday, Nov. 20 and Sunday, Nov. 22.