GRR: Youth
The National Youth 7s Championships are set to kick off Friday with the first set of pool games.
There are 10 teams in the Boys U16 bracket in two pools of five.
Rookie Rugby Cleveland had about 500 kids in the spring of 2021.
Last year the number improved to over 600, and now they've topped 800. If there's a bigger Rookie Rugby league in the country, we haven't seen it (if you have, let us know).
We decided to sit down with Dan Arbeznik, who runs Rookie Rugby Cleveland, to talk about how it's done and how you can do it, too.
The youth sections of the Tropical 7s bring 24 teams to Tampa for this coming weekend's massive event.
Over 170 teams in various brackets will compete, but right now we're looking at the U14 and U12 teams.
The National 7s Youth Rugby Championships is now pretty much fill, with just a few open spots in the Girls U14 bracket.
There is, however, a waitlist for some brackets.
City youth programs will face off this weekend in the Los Angeles area for the 2023 Urban Rugby Championships.
The tournament was born out of a meeting between ICEF Rugby founder Stuart Krohn (LA), and Memphis Inner City Rugby founder Shane Young. The two realized they were of like purposes and decided to work together as part of an Urban Rugby Initiative.