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Today is the last day to consider advertising for your team at the USA Rugby International Invitational Women’s 7s Tournament. Its a UNIQUE and cheap ad that will be viewed by over 6,000 female collegiate, club players, families and fans. PLUS, the money will go directly to the USA Rugby Women’s High Performance Program (all women national [...]

Gainline Africa is a Canadian sports for development organization that uses the power of rugby as a vehicle for development in Africa’s post-conflict communities. Gainline was founded by a small group of rugby players who experienced positive benefits playing the game they love. From these beginnings, Gainline believes rugby is a non-intrusive, efficient and cost-effective [...]

from ScrumQueens: ENGLAND Clear favourites, the reigning champions go into the competition this year in ominous form. England have played 13 times since the last 6 Nations, and in the process have picked up an array of titles including the Nations Cup and a convincing test series over New Zealand. Perhaps more importantly though England [...]

You know those plays that don’t go so well? A missed pass or an ill-timed knock-on? They are all here for you to enjoy, plus some of the best plays of the tournament…thanks to the Men’s Rugby World Cup of 2011 & RugbyDump: Wendy YoungEditor of Your Scrumhalf Connection. Passionate Rugger since 2001.Website – More [...]

from Inside the Games; By Tom Degun December 9 – Susan Carty (pictured), the International Rugby Board (IRB) Women’s Development Manager, has claimed that the sport debuting at the Rio 2016 Olympics represents a major chance to help expand the women’s game globally and that her organisation has moved now to capitalise on the unique opportunity.  [...]

from The Guardian: Maggie Alphonsi began her sports career in athletics before deciding to give rugby a shot. Photograph: Paul Seiser Before going into rugby at 14, I did athletics. I was a discus thrower and got funding from my local authority to represent the [London] borough of Enfield entering national competitions. But as time [...]

The previous post mentioned that the IRB had said that women’s rugby is played in about 80 countries. This is a slight underestimate. In fact women’s rugby is played at international level in 111 countries – with several more on the verge of joining them. The map below shows the true global spread of the game: [...]

  John Birch points out some inaccuracies in this Guest post here. from Rugby Girl: The IRB has reported that Women’s Rugby is presently being played in over 80 countries with the leading countries registered players being. USA 20,700 ENGLAND 17,500 SOUTH AFRICA 17,400 SRI LANKA 15,700 IRELAND 12,300 FRANCE 11,900 NEW ZEALAND 11.700 INDIA [...]