Wendy Young Welcome to another Rugby Video Monday! Thanks to everyone who sends me links to new videos, I have quite a few on my list now…so if you haven’t seen yours yet, don’t worry I will get to it! This week the video comes from another rugger in the ruckosphere, Letchworth Girls’ Rugby, its a great … Read more
Northeast Women Only All-Stars at Cape Fearpartial repost from Goff July 4, 2008 – The Cape Fear 7s have often been used as a warmup tournament for women’s territorial teams. This year that’s not quite what’s happening. The women’s competitive bracket includes two USA Developmental 7s, under the name Atlantis, plus two area clubs. But … Read more
So a notice today went out about a verbage clarification on Law 17.5 for the new ELVs from USA Rugby…and when I read the subject of the email I was secretly hoping that this meant that USA Rugby was not going to abide by the new ELVs. I know, I know, I haven’t played under … Read more
Another gem from Bryn (coach of the U-20 Women’s National Team)…a video from the recent June 2008 tour of South Africa! It was originally posted on the U19 Girls Rugby blog. Here is a long clip from the USA U20 WNT v South Africa U20 WNT game played on June 28th in Nelspruit, South Africa. … Read more
Join me in sending good vibes to Oregon this weekend as Abby, is throwing the shot put for her chance to go to Beijing in the 2008 Summer Olympics! She will be throwing the evenings of July 3 (9:20pm PST) and July 5 (1:50pm PST). The TV stations to watch her on are USA (3rd) … Read more
Bryn Chivers let me know that the U20’s had a tour diary, but limited internet access made it hard to post anything…so its all just been posted at the U19 Girls Rugby Blog. I have re-posted it here: U20 WNT UpdateSorry this is a week of posts at once but we lost the wifi at … Read more
Over the weekend the blog counter for Your Scrumhalf Connection broke 100,000 hits!! The fact that we are already up to 100,728 by TODAY is worth noting as well! I believe the count broke 100,000 in the wee morning hours of Sunday. So lets celebrate by opening a virtual bottle of champagne (or your choice … Read more
Ronny recommended the video this week, thanks for sending it to me at yourscrumhalfconnection@gmail.com! The video this week is a 2008 Division 1 Women’s match of New York vs Chicago North Shore. New York shows some serious muscle as they pushy try it in…looks to be about 8 meters! It appears that New York won … Read more
from USA Rugby: NELSPRUIT, South Africa – Before a packed crowd at Nelspruit Rugby Stadium, the USA Under-20 Women’s National Team wrapped up its South Africa tour with a nail-biting 21-17 victory over the South Africa U-20 Women on Saturday, June 28. The game did not get underway exactly as the U.S. side would have … Read more
USA Rugby is pleased to announce a Coach Development workshops in San Marcos, Texas July 19th thru July 20th at Texas State University and in Tulsa, OK July 26th thru July 27th at the Tulsa Rugby Field. Both Introducing Rugby and Developing Rugby Skills workshops will be offered and will run concurrently Saturday and Sunday … Read more