Your Scrumhalf Connection

  While we are waiting for Hong Kong Day 2 to kick off, a bit of reflection on how I got involved in rugby… My first rugby team was with American University in 1996.  I was taking some political science classes and a girl, I think her name was Erin, walked into my classroom and [...]

The 32 women’s college rugby teams that will battle in the first round of the Emirates Airline USA Rugby Women’s Division I and Division II College playoffs have been confirmed. Sixteen teams from each division will be competing in four different locations around the country from April 20-22, 2012. The four locations are: Steuber Rugby [...]

Time to take advantage of community! This video recently went up and spread round Durham University like wildfire. It’s from an intercollegiate match in a university which is has achieved the holy grail of women’s rugby development, making it as significant as men’s rugby. The way it has been achieved is the community which women’s [...]

March 3-4 was the San Diego Surfers annual Champagne Classic Rugby Tournament. This is a well known tournament in the US that is a women’s only event. This year the referee organizer Luann Campbell brought in all women referees to officiate the event. As well as a training venue for these referees, there were also [...]

The Maryland Stingers Women’s Rugby Football Club is currently looking for a new head coach for the Spring 2012 season. We are in search of a qualified coach, ideally with some coaching experience at the club or collegiate level (men or women), who can commit to weekly practices and games. The head coach will be [...]

As an avid reader who is obsessed with rugby there aren’t very many books about the sport and the people who have impacted it I haven’t read. Now that I have become consumed with coaching the spectrum of my reading material has expanded to topics like; sports psychology, sports management and the study of great [...]

Competition ends March 31, 2012 Wendy YoungEditor of Your Scrumhalf Connection. Passionate Rugger since 2001. Want to know more about me? Go to About Us on the bar up there.More Posts – Website – Twitter – Facebook

I sit on the NERFU board as the Sr Women’s DIII Director.  I’m wondering if there are DIII women’s clubs in other GUs. If so, I would love to connect and potentially we can organize a post-season tournament for this division. If there are no other DIII women’s clubs, then the NERFU winner in our [...]

Letter from Head Coach Kathy Flores Hello All Interested Grizzlies Participants I hope you are all looking forward to the 2012 NASCs as this may be the last event of this type. I’d like to introduce our staff: Head Coach: Kathy Flores, Berkeley All Blues Assistant Coach: Jarred Power, ORSU Skills Coach (PNW + Utah Camp): [...]

Twitter Lists are starting to pop up all over the place and they provide a quick and easy way to follow a specific topic or list of twitter accounts. We’ve gone ahead and created Twitter Lists for women’s rugby teams including: All #wRugby Players We know its possibly impossible to get every #wrugby rugger out [...]