Wendy Young

Your Scrumhalf Connection – Women’s Rugby Blog. Daily posts about rugby across the world! Read the blog at http://yourscrumhalfconnection.com and follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/scrumhalfblog

Dear Women’s Coaches and Club Representatives: I am contacting you today with regards to an issue that has already been addressed with Traci Schmidtke (Austin) and Alena Kolarsky (HARC) in regards to a Girl’s Youth Rugby Skills Development Clinic. Hopefully you might have some interest from your team with regards to helping out or sending … Read more

Dear teams, My name is Jenn Degroot and I play for the Austin Valkyries. I am sure you guys are aware that the Women’s Round of 16’s Championship Tournament is coming to Austin October 27 & 28 and I have taken on the role of organizing volunteers for the event. It’s such an exciting opportunity … Read more

I will be inputting scores as I get them this week…keep checking back for updates. Leave a score in the comments in you know it! D1 League Matches Scottsdale vs Belmont Shore 15 – 7Kansas City vs Glendale 7 – 14St. Louis vs Austin Valkyries 14 – 25Maryland vs DC Furies 0- 3Raleigh vs Philadelphia … Read more

Coach’s Notes and Match Report (Meg Pace) (*I will add a few notes as well, in italics) Congratulations and a big 3 Cheers for the Valkyries who demolished the St. Louis Sabres this weekend by a score of 25 to 14. I didn’t take a huge amount of notes this time but will do my … Read more

here’s to line outs to the back pod, backs running hard and tries touched down. here’s to pick and goes with support, hooking up with the back line and tries touched down. here’s to T to A with an X or two thrown in for fun, and tries touched down. here’s to being aggressive on … Read more

I refereed my first match on Saturday! My roommate and I both traveled to College Station, TX to referee our first matches! She refereed the UT Grads vs the College Station B side men’s game and I officiated over the Rice A side vs Texas A&M B side women’s match. It was AWESOME! The first … Read more

I was selected as a reserve for the USA Women’s National Team that is traveling to ENGLAND in December…more info to come soon. I will post the list as soon as it is published publicly… Your Scrumhalf Connection – Women’s Rugby Blog. Daily posts about rugby across the world! Read the blog at http://yourscrumhalfconnection.com and … Read more

I will be inputting scores as I get them this week…keep checking back for updates. Leave a score in the comments in you know it! D1 League Matches DC vs Philadelphia 5 – 8NOVA vs Raleigh 51 – 3Belmont Shore vs San Diego 19 – 17Scottsdale vs Coast 15 – 0Mudhens vs ORSU 8 – … Read more

Whew, tons of emails over the last few days! I have been wanting to put them all down in a blog, but I started my new job this week and I have been crazy busy! LOVE THE NEW JOB…support analyst for email & web development. AWESOME! Anyways, here is some of the emails/bulletins/blogs etc I … Read more