The WPL returns for its eleventh season this fall and will culminate at the 2019 USA Rugby WPL Championships, in Glendale, CO on November 1st and 3rd. The season starts the weekend of August 17th with match-ups: Glendale vs Life West Berkeley All Blues vs ORSU Beantown vs Atlanta Chicago NS vs Twin Cities Amazons … 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
The Berkeley All Blues Women’s Rugby Club is currently seeking a Head Coach for our Women’s Premier League (WPL) season beginning August through WPL Nationals in mid-November 2019. The ideal candidate is committed to working with elite, senior-level female athletes to build and maintain a championship-level team. The Team Founded in 1978, the Berkeley All … Read more
First, we take a look at the six most read stories on YSCRugby.com over the past 12 months. Interestingly enough, four articles are from 2018. The other two are from 2012 and 2011 respectively. Next, we’ll look at the top posts on Twitter and Instagram. Facebook doesn’t have analytics that go back far enough, so … Read more
The focus this week is on #USAW7s in Denver and squad announcements ahead of the upcoming Autumn Internationals. Of course that isn’t all that happened though, Canterbury is in the top spot in the Farah Palmer Cup, Saracens are still unbeaten in Premier 15s and WPL rugby marches towards their finals in a few weeks. … Read more
Another heavy week of news! We’re getting closer to know where we will be traveling for the 2021 WRWC. New Zealand and Australia have been releasing steady PR and social media building their cases to be the host. Scotland has signed a three year sponsorship deal, Mexico repeated as the RAN 7s Champion, week 6 … Read more
Another big week as Tyrells Premier kicks off, schedules for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games were announced, the qualification process for 2020 Olympics was revealed, the WPL competition hits the halfway remark and the first stop of the HSBC Sevens Series announced their schedule. But wait, there’s more! The RFU announced 35 contracts, Leinster claimed the IRFU Women’s … Read more
This week our women’s news coverages includes a quick look at all the upcoming November Internationals, WPL standings after week 4, the first stop of the HSBC Sevens Series in Denver, CO and Liza Burgess of Wales being inducted into the 2018 World Rugby Hall of Fame. Also this week was the draw for the … Read more
Another big week with lots of news from all over the place. Our highlights include a women’s “Fast Four” tournament being added to Hamilton 7s, more on the IRP player’s survey and how players feel about it, week 3 of the WPL, Russia took Grand Prix 7s for the third year running, Japan upsets China … Read more