Your Scrumhalf Connection

Hey all, I am finding myself busier and busier these days, so I wanted to see if anyone out there wanted to help design a YSC tshirt! Put on your creative caps and submit your designs. I am open to modern, new age, vintage whatever…just design it up and send it over. Please submit it in either Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, JPEG, PNG or GIF.

Send completed designs over to wendy@scrumhalfconnection.com, due date is Feb 15, 2010.

Design must include:

scrumhalfconnection.com
women’s rugby blog
YSC Rugby or Your Scrumhalf Connection Rugby

The sky is the limit, so get to designing, The Girl and I will pick the design we like the most together!

The Girl and I had a blast in Lakeland, FL this weekend helping USA Rugby out with the Ustream broadcast for the Atlantic Cup and the U20 matches! Thanks for all the kind comments in the UStream chatroom, on Twitter and Facebook about my commenting!! I’ve never done it before, so I am still getting my feet wet, but I do enjoy it.

Here are the videos from the weekend, thanks to USA Rugby for providing video for all the viewers at home. The viewing reached over 3500 fans, this is a Ustream record for USA Rugby! Thanks again to all of the YSC fans as over 1600 of you clicked on the link from YSC to view the video. That means that YSC brought half the viewers!

USA vs Canada 1st half – January 16, 2010

USA vs Canada 2nd half – January 16, 2010

We apologize as the broadcast was shut off before the conversion was attempted…but it was missed by Canada and so USA won 11-10.

It doesn’t appear that the U-20 matches are available yet, I will try to see if I can get the links once they are posted.

For the match report of the Senior USA vs Canada and rosters, go here. For the match report and roster of the U20s match, go here.

For travel packages to England for the 2010 Women’s Rugby World Cup, go here.

Update 1/18/10: To view the archived video for this match, go here.

The Atlantic Cup concludes tomorrow as the USA Eagles will take on Canada at 3pm EST. The US was narrowly defeated on Tuesday by Canada 18-8, so tomorrow’s match will be especially intense as both teams will look to improve. I was hoping that the roster for the game tomorrow would be released tonight, but it hasn’t come out yet. To see the roster from Tuesday’s game, go here.

UPDATE (3:45am): They released the USA roster late last night:

Canada Roster:

1. Leslie Cripps (c) 2. Kim Donaldson 3. Marlene Donaldson 4. Danielle Rowlands 5. Araba Chintoh 6. Heather Jaques 7. Shannon Kane 8. Jen Kish 9. Julia Sugawara 10. Brooke Hilditch 11. Brittany Waters 12. Sarah Ulmer 13. Mandy Marchak 14. Andrea Burk 15. Ashley Patzer (vc)

Replacements: 16. Kristy Sargent 17. Leslie McKenzie 18. Paige Burdett-Knauff 19. Barbara Mervin 20. Laura Stoughton 21. Anna Schnell 22. Darcy Patterson

Before the Eagles play, the U20 teams for USA and Canada will face off. The USA U20s have been dormant since the Nations Cup where they were defeated 110-0 by an incredibly dynamic England squad. They are sporting a few new faces and are expecting a rousing match tomorrow against Canada.

Canada U20 Roster

Stacie Becker St Albert  AB  University of Alberta  St. Albert Rugby Club
Laurie Biewald  Ottawa ON University of Western Ontario Ottawa Irish
Meagan Chambers Abbotsford BC Heritage Park SS Abbotsford
Maggie Cogger-Orr Thornhill ON McMaster University Toronto Scottish
Tia  Croteau Surrey BC Enver Creek Secondary Bayside Sharks
Danika Gulliford St John’s NL Memorial University Baymen Rugby Club
Stacey Hake North Vancouver BC University of Lethbridge Capilano
Magali Harvey Ste-Foy PQ St. Lawrence Club de Rugby De Quebec
Alex Hendricks Lethbridge AB University of Lethbridge Lethbridge
MacKenzie Higgs Aurora ON University of Guelph Aurora Barbs
Randi Hunter Abbotsford BC University of Victoria University of Victoria
Jessica Jacobs Caledon ON St Francis Xavier Brampton RFC
Jacqui Laidler Anmore BC Bishops University United Rugby Club
Morganne Linthwaite Guelph ON University of Guelph Highland RFC
Misha Maric Toronto ON Brock University Balmy Beach
Ellen McGregor Souris MB University of Calgary Brandon Barbarians
Katie McNally Guelph ON University of Guelph Highland RFC
Kayla Moleschi Williams Lake BC n/a William’s Lake RFC
Laura  Murphy-Burke Surrey BC University of Lethbridge Bayside RFC
Casey Thorburn St. John’s NL Memorial University Swilers
Amanda  Thornborough Brandon MB St Francis Xavier Brandon Barbarians
Kelsey Willoughby Lethbridge AB University of Lethbridge Lethbridge

Staff

Mentor Coach – Kris De Scossa (Calgary, AB)
Coach: Jason Young – (Vancouver, BC), Pat Fleck (Vancouver, BC)
Therapist:  Laura Libby
Communications: Stacy Malloch in Ottawa

Manager: Penny Delaney

USA U20

1.     Wendy Sherman
2.     Katherine Hathaway
3.     Brittany Rose
4.     Katherine Rose
5.     Margaret Reidy
6.     Kathryn Johnson
7.     Jozy Gessner
8.     Candace Barley
9.     BrieAnna Barto
10. Lauren Danielson
11. Anna Lee
12. Kandis Ruiz
13. Morgan Rovetti
14. Seymire Salamy
15. Sadie Anderson
16. Erica Cardwell
17. Britta Nelson
18. Sharron Gianessi
19. Rachel Ryan
20. Amee Svatos
21. Heather Lockwood
22. Tara Burke

All the action begins at 1pm EST with USA U20s and Canada U20s battling it out. Then Senior USA and Canada teams will face off at 3pm EST. Watch the match LIVE here and listen closely as Team YSC will be the annoucers! We will also be Tweeting and Facebooking live from both matches. If you are going to the match come find us as we are giving away a few YSC shirts and balls.

For travel packages to England for the 2010 Women’s Rugby World Cup, go here.

This week’s Rugby Video Monday is a little different as The Girl and I are officially announcing to the world that we are ENGAGED! If you want the gooey details, go below…

Our date is November 13, 2010 and we will be getting married on a boat in Austin, TX. We  love water and being outside, so we couldn’t imagine getting married anywhere else. I like to say that I am getting married on a mother f’in boat and The Girl won’t let me put that on our invitations…so I have been watching this video all the time:

How we met
Almost 10 years ago The Girl and I played rugby at rival colleges. The Girl played at Texas A&M and I played at Oklahoma. The rivalry between Texas A&M and Oklahoma is still strong and for our rugby teams at the time we were the best college teams in our region. Our teams played each other often and the games were intense and close in score.

After college we played on a few LAU and All-Star teams together and then in 2006 we each moved to Austin. The Girl moved in early 2006 and began playing with the Austin Valkyries. Unknown to me, I moved to Austin in June 2006 as well.

Date of engagement event
12/17/2009

How we got engaged
This part was written by The Girl: We decided to have date night (movie and dinner at Alamo Drafthouse) which we do almost once a week.  We went to the theater where we had our first date 3 years ago.  Now, I didn’t think anything of it because we go to this theater all the time.  I just thought it was a typical Wednesday night dinner and a movie.

Well after the movie we got in the car to head home.  Wendy decided to turn down a row in the parking lot in the opposite direction of the exit.  Claiming she was “turned around” and forgot where the exit was.  I proceeded to get a little impatient and questioned how she could possibly be “turned around” in a parking lot.

She then parked, turned off the car, and took off my seat belt.  She asked me if I knew where I was. Umm hello, I’m in a parking lot at the theatre.  She then replied with “this is where is all started.” (She parked in the same location we parked 3 years ago when we had our first date.)

She then handed me a present to open.  Those who know Wendy know she cannot stand looking at presents and not opening them, so it wasn’t a surprise that she wanted me to open an early present.

The present was a Shutterfly picture book.  She wrote a story of our first 3 years together.  It was very creative and very sweet, she has such an imagination.  She called us rugby knights from different kingdoms, fighting evil to find our way to each other.

The last page of the book had a picture of the ring and read “they lived happily ever after”.

She pulled out the ring and asked me to marry her and of course I said YES!

Welcome to the new YSC site! I hope you enjoy the re-design and are happy with the new navigation. Let me know if you have any problems or questions and I will be glad to help! Email me at wendy@scrumhalfconnection.com for feedback or questions!

Thanks,

YSC Team