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Under the Posts – Nov 2-8 begins with England’s Emily Scarratt receiving the inaugural Women’s Six Nations player award, France suspends most of their amateur competitions, Round 4 wrap of Allianz Premier 15s, Hong Kong competitions kick off, Rachael Burford & Simon Middleton call for more coverage of the women’s game, RAN rugby announces their … Read more
Under the Posts – Oct 26-Nov 1 begins with England winning the Grand Slam, Canterbury takes their 4th Dr Farah Cup Title, England, Italy and France cancel amateur competitions, a feature on the Springboks, Asia’s ‘Unstoppable Asia’ campaign, USWRF 15 Under 30 Awards as well as 6 player features and a whopping 7 medias. Video … Read more
The U.S. Women’s Rugby Foundation is pleased to announce the inaugural 15 Under 30 Award. The USWRF created the annual award to highlight those who exemplify the best qualities of rugby and bring those qualities to the field, to their teams, to the sport and to local and global communities. The goal of the annual … Read more
Under the Posts – Sep 21-27 begins with rescheduled Six Nation dates, France struggles to play during the pandemic, HSBC World Rugby 7s Series Awards, USA Rugby comes out against proposed trans ban, 7 player features and 10 medias. Quick Video Summary Featured Women’s Rugby So exciting that the remaining Six Nations matches have been … Read more
Under the Posts – Aug 17-23 begins with an open letter signed by International Athletes to World Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup delays their start, discussions around a women’s global calendar, 6 player features, 5 medias and 1 #RugbyJobs. Featured Women’s Rugby News IGR has released a fantastic response to the proposed World Rugby ban on … Read more
We updated last week that we were waiting to publish anything further on this topic until the final USA Rugby Disciplinary Report was available. We’ve been told that the report has been shared with USA Rugby and it is in the final stages of review. As this has dragged on more than a year, we … Read more
Under the Posts – Aug 10-16 starts with a moving video from Ugo Monye, Maro Itoje and Ellis Genge around racism. We’re also looking at the joint men’s and women’s Rugby World Cup host selection process, some 2021 Women’s Rugby World Cup squads are announced, the RAN rugby online women’s forum continues, 5 player features … Read more
Update 8/20/20: We’ve posted an article on our findings. Updated 8/11/20 Last Wednesday YSC received an article from a reader about a player in New Jersey who had been suspended from rugby. We read the blog quickly, hardly believing it. Not because we didn’t believe Crystal Cooke’s story. But that a rugby player could be … Read more
Under the Posts – Jul 20-26 starts with the leaked World Rugby document on transgender rugby players, England and Canada’s return to rugby, the first official New Zealand women’s rugby match in 1985, 7 player features, 4 media interviews and 2 #RugbyJobs. Featured Women’s Rugby News A leaked World Rugby report took us all by … Read more
There seems to be something amiss in RugbyTown USA, AKA Glendale, Colorado. Glendale was pretty unknown to the rugby world until late 2006, “when city leaders developed a bold plan: The future of the city would be built around the sport of rugby” (About Us, Glendale Rugby). Part of the agreement of the city was … Read more