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from SARU: A group of 25 women rugby players have been invited by national coach Denver Wannies to an off-season training camp in Port Elizabeth next week as they keep up preparations in advance of the 2012 season. The camp will run from 12-14 December and Wannies has decided to add eight players to his [...]

Re-posted from Rugby Wrapup: A perennial Team USA Eagle, Phaidra Knight is one of the most recognized names in women’s rugby. Today, she chats with fellow Eagle & New York Rugby Club mate,Vanesha McGee. PK: V, I am happy to talk to you today and thanks for taking the time. V: Well, when you “ask” [...]

It seems like women are getting tired of being considered second class athletes, first the WCSC letter to USA Rugby asking for gender equity…the UK is struggling with their own issues… We can’t ignore that these issues are worldwide and affect all female athletes. from theguardian: A group of leading British sportswomen has called for [...]

YSC received permission to publish this letter from Sue Parker, on behalf of the USA Rugby Women’s Collegiate Strategic Committee. Join the movement! We’ve created a Facebook page for this issue, join today! USA Rugby WCSC letter to BOD 120911 [PDF] I’m sure I don’t have to express to you how important these issues are, not [...]

from USA Rugby: A USA Rugby and USOC partnership will allow USA Rugby to provide 23 rugby sevens athletes (15 men, 8 women) with fulltime training contracts in January 2012 The 23 athletes will live near and have fulltime access to the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. Both the men’s and women’s sevens [...]

from Rugby Wrapup: A perennial Team USA Eagle, Phaidra Knight is one of the most recognized names in women’s rugby. Today, she chats with Team USA Captain Jamie Burke. PK: Jamie, thanks so much for joining me to tell the wide world of rugby a little bit about you. Jamie: You know I’d never let [...]

from USA Rugby: Rugby Coach Appreciation Week Spotlight If you were coaching a team against New Zealand or England in a Rugby World Cup, how would you feel? Nervous? Anxious? Overwhelmed? How would you inspire your team to rugby perfection against all odds? For Kevin O’Brien and Chris Leach, the coaches of the World Cup-winning [...]

from ODT: If a tree falls in the forest and no-one is there to hear it, does it make a noise? Nga Mamaku – the Black Ferns – have fallen at the hands of archrival England in a three-test series, with two losses and a draw, and there hasn’t been much of an uproar. Herein [...]

from USA Rugby: BOULDER, Colo. — USA Women’s Eagles Head Coach, Peter Steinberg, has signed an extension to his current contract, keeping him in the role through 2013. “The performance of the team and the feedback from the players has shown that Peter is the right person to lead the program,” said Nigel Melville, CEO [...]

from Letchworthgirls: This is well worth a wider audience. Its a message sent to me from a girls’ and women’s coach in New Zealand (and as he also published it on a discussion board it already in the public domain). On the plus side it does suggest that England will lift the next World Cup, but [...]