Wendy Young Jonny Wilkson to Miss US Game (American Rugby News) England head coach Brian Ashton today announced the team that will play USA in their Rugby World Cup 2007 opener at Stade Felix-Bollaert, Lens on Saturday September 8. The English will be without their star flyhalf Jonny Wilkinson. Said Ashton, “We’ve picked a XV that we … Read more
Check out the hundreds of photos my dad and Traci took at the Austin Valkyries Rookie/Collegiate Clinic My dad just got a digital SLR camera and all we could hear the whole clinic was the whir of the shutter. It was awesome! Thanks for taking pics Dad and Traci! Also thanks to Meg Pace, Meredith … Read more
The women’s DI league standings (via Goff) are as follows: SoCal8-Sep San Diego at Coast15-Sep Belmont Shore at Coast San Diego at Scottsdale 29-Sep Belmont Shore at San Diego Scottsdale at Coast 6-Oct Scottsdale at Belmont Shore Coast at San Diego Teams W L T Pf Pa BPT BPL Pd PtsBelmont Shore 3 0 0 … Read more
12 hours at the airport. 12 hours of sleep. 2 dr peppers. 20 teammates. 25 years old yesterday. and I’m home. Got home last night around 7:30pm (got to the airport in Minnesota at 7:30am) and went straight to practice. I was thinking that I might jump in the drills and do some practice but … Read more
From Womeneagles.com: US Squad Falls to Canada in Second Match of Series 8.30.07 – Blaine, MN – The US Developmental Squad fell to a strong Canada Senior Women’s team, 7-46, in the second match of their series. The two teams met at the National Sports Center fields in Blaine, MN in a newly organized NA2 … Read more
The day before a game is always tough…especially if you played the day before. The day began at 9am with breakfast and a video session at 10am. Watching yourself on tape is never fun, but we were able to identify problems as a team and now we can work on them. Our defensive work definitely … Read more
USA vs Canada Game 2 Roster 1 Jamie Burke2 Mari Wallace3 Libby Burg4 Jenny Menke5 Carrie Dubray6 Kitt Wagner7 Stacy Bennet8 Liz Dilley9 Rose Whitemore10 Jossy Tseng11 Nathalie Marchino12 Elise Myer13 Lynelle Kugler14 Maura Weikman15 Ashley Kmiecek Reserves16 Lisa Butts17 Farrah Douglas18 Mel Denham19 Kristen Zdancewicz20 Wendy Young21 Meg Crapster-Pregont22 Sara Leary USA vs Canada … Read more
More pictures from Game #1 from Dropkickphotos.com From womeneagles.comUS Developmental Squad Falls to Canada 8.28.07 – Blaine, MN – The US Developmental squad lost a physical match against Canada’s senior women’s team yesterday in the first of their two-match CanAm series. The final score was 5-18 with the US falling behind early but rebounding to … Read more
(*UPDATE* The ending score was Canada 18 USA 5.) This morning we woke up around 9am for breakfast (what a glorious sleep it was!!!). The night was punctuated with a massive thunderstorm and lightening storm around 3am. Those of us that were sleeping with the windows open (unheard of in Austin!) were awoken by loud … Read more
8am breakfast9am – noon training12:15pm – 1:15pm lunch1:30pm – 4:00pm training6:00pm – 7:00pm dinner7:30pm – 8:30pm jersey ceremony Ever wondered what a typical training schedule for an Eagle camp is? Well there you go! This is the day before a match so we took it pretty easy contact-wise, but still a full day of eating, … Read more