American Rugby Pro Training Center is proud to announce the ARPTC High School Full-Time Residency Program! The High School Residency Program is a three week immersion training experience for female rugby players aged 16-18. As the only full-time, multi-week rugby residency training environment in the country, the ARPTC High School Residency Program is a unique … Read more
This week our women’s rugby news is focused on round two of the Six Nations, HSBC Kitakyushu Sevens and the Tokyo 2020 Qualifiers. Read on to see what else we’re covering this week! England’s new Sports Minister calls for more women’s sport on television Nigeria is moving closer to competing internationally again A feature on Liz Strohecker, … Read more
This week we’re wrapping up our women’s rugby coverage of Sydney 7s and the first round of the Six Nations. Plus we always mix in a few other stories to keep things interesting: World Rugby gives us a behind the scenes look at their HSBC 7s referees Marlie Packer weathers a tough 2018 Sydney 7s … Read more
The Twin Cities Amazons Rugby Club announce the hiring of Rebecca “Reebok” Radtke as their new head coach. The decision was made at the club’s 2019 Annual General Meeting Sunday, January 27, 2019. Radtke, who has spent the last 5 seasons as the head coach of the University of Minnesota Women’s Rugby Club, becomes the … Read more
2002 brought about the long-awaited expansion of the Women’s Five Nations tournament to accommodate six teams, but many neutrals who tuned in to watch the first ever round of W6N fixtures may have been tempted to declare the induction of Ireland a premature move, as stated on https://www.scrumqueens.com/. Predictably, they finished last, and a year … Read more
The 2018-2019 USA Rugby College D1 & D2 seasons are well underway and we’ve got all the teams and standings for you! As in years past, the colleges play regionally and then move on to either the Fall or Spring College Playoffs. From there two teams will fight for the USA Rugby National College Championships. In … Read more
This week we are covering Hamilton 7s in New Zealand, Sydney 7s in Australia and the first weekend of the Six Nations. Plus we always mix in a few other stories to keep things interesting: New Zealand easily wins Hamilton 7s and goes unscathed to also win Sydney 7s A fantastic podcast by NIRAWRugby about … Read more
The USA Rugby Women’s Gold Cup has entered it’s third and final year (so we’ve heard). No expansion this year but included teams are the Albany Sirens, Austin Valkyries, Boston, Detroit, Houston, Minnesota Valkyries, Philadelphia and Raleigh. The Gold Cup determines places at the USA Rugby Eastern Regional Playoffs, except for Austin and Houston. Their … Read more
The 2018-2019 USA Rugby D1 & D2 seasons are well underway and we’ve got all the teams and standings for you! As in years past, the league is split into eight competitive regions. Overall we are looking at about 20-25 D1 teams and 30-25 D2 in the country, divided into two Leagues. The country is split into East … Read more
The 2019 ARPTC season is loaded with elite level opportunities for athletes seeking a high performance environment to advance their game. ARPTC Residents will travel across the country and around the globe to compete against high level rugby players and build their own rugby prowess. ARPTC travels internationally this summer to Italy and Ireland, competing … Read more
