High School Boys
The Stars & Stripes week ended for 44 highly-regarded high school boys rugby players Saturday with the Stars & Stripes game in Greeley, Colo.
The Stars fell behind early and then came back in a high-scoring game to win 42-38. But more than that, the game was the culmination of a week of work with their respective coaching staffs.
Quietly, for the last five plus year, middle school rugby has been blooming in pockets throughout the South. Around Atlanta, Charlotte, the Raleigh/ Durham area, Richmond and other Virginia cities, and across Tennessee there are middle school rugby football clubs that all have multiple seasons under their belts. The explosive growth at the under high school level is not flying under the radar
The Rugby Washington Boys Loggers rep-side has announced 22 players selected for a U14/U15 Development Squad to play in a select side tournament in Kelowna, BC August 7-9.
Teams from British Columbia and Alberta will also be there.
USA Rugby has released, finally, its list of boys high school players for the Stars & Stripes camp this week.
The camp will once again be held at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colo.
The West Chester Boys team out of Pennsylvania rebounded from an opening loss to win four games in a row and take the Surfside 7s American High School 7s Championships Boys Open Division Sunday.
West Chester opened the tournament on Saturday with a 27-7 loss to Conestoga before ending pool play with 33-0 shutouts of Roman Catholic and Coventry.