GRR: Youth
The U.S. Rugby Foundation’s Youth Rugby Initiative is offering a free trip to the HSBC Sevens Rugby World Championship for participants of the Youth Rugby Initiative Program.
The National 7s Youth Rugby Championship is back for another year and will return to Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio.
The Girls U16 and U14 brackets return and that has been a fixture of the tournament. However in 2024 the response for those brackets were low. The hope or expectation is that girls teams will be back.
National 7s Youth Rugby Championships Past Winners:
Very soon the United States Rugby Foundation will announce its new Ball-4-All donation recipients.
But it’s worth noting two things about that:
As GRR reported on Monday, there was serious dissatisfaction in how the new Rugby Ohio election was being managed.
See the details here: This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Rugby Ohio Latest
Today is supposed to be the first day of voting for the new Rugby Ohio Board, but there is trouble in paradise as the balloting and nomination procedure has been brought into question.
“We’re not happy,” said Mark Weidner, who heads up the group that wanted open elections.
Here’s what they are not happy about: