San Francisco Fog RFC to host Women's Sevens National Invitational Tournament – August 15-16, 2009

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UPDATE: Thank you for all of your emails, I was able to get ahold of Carl and Dana from the fog. There will be LIVE scoring for this event, good luck to all teams! Feel free to send me scores and or updates at 405.802.2490.

July 31, 2009
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San Francisco, CA – The San Francisco Fog Rugby Football Club is pleased to announce that the Women’s Sevens National Invitational Tournament will take place Saturday and Sunday, August 15-16, 2009 on Treasure Island. Saturday will feature all teams in pool play, leading into Sunday’s trophy rounds and culminating in the crowning of the 2009 National Sevens Champion. All play will take place at the Gaelic Athletic Association’s field at California Ave. and Avenue H on Treasure Island. Saturday afternoon the Gaelic Athletic Association will play the men’s final for Gaelic Football on the same field.

This year marks the inaugural Championship for Women’s Sevens, and will coincide with the Men’s Sevens National Invitational Tournament, hosted by the San Francisco Golden Gate Rugby Football Club, also on Treasure Island. Dana Creager, fresh from the US National Team, is serving as Competition Coordinator. Creager notes “We are very pleased to be bringing the Inaugural Women’s Sevens tournament to the San Francisco Bay Area, a hotbed of American Rugby, and are honored to be hosted by the San Francisco Fog. It is guaranteed to be a weekend full of great rugby.”

With origins that trace back to Scotland over 125 years ago, Rugby Sevens is a fast paced, high action version of the more traditional 15-person game.

Sponsors of this event are: Bass www.bass.com, Budweiser www.budweiser.com, and Energy 92.7 www.energy927fm.com

Admission is free to all spectators.

The San Francisco Fog R.F.C, established in 2000, is a club committed to an ethic of inclusion. The vision of the club is to be the preeminent rugby club in the world that actively pursues the participation of people of color, gay men, women, and other groups traditionally under-represented in rugby. The Fog are a part of the Northern California Rugby Union (NCRU) and the International Gay Rugby Association and Board (IGRAB).