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The 2012 USA Sevens international rugby tournament will take place February 10th – 12th, 2012 at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas. USA Sevens is the premier rugby tournament in North America. This year the women’s International Invitational Tournament will include 8 teams! In the stands and at parties throughout Las Vegas, fans from all [...]

Fellow Ruggers, This is an official invite to our first ever Advanced Skills Clinic! It will be held on Saturday, January 28th at Whitaker Fields (the UT Intramural Fields) located at the intersection of 51st and Guadalupe in Austin, Texas. It will begin 9am Saturday morning and will go until about 4pm. The clinic will [...]

from Scrumqueens: The year following the Women’s Rugby World Cup is normally fairly quiet as teams regroup and rebuild, and this year has been no different. Just 54 test matches were played in 2011, making it the quietest year for women’s test rugby since 2005. However, fears that the lure of Olympic rugby would mean [...]

from USA Rugby: BOULDER, Colo. — The 2012 USA Rugby High School National Championships will be an invitational format for 2012.  Teams will apply for a spot in the tournament, with a national committee considering the applications. The Girl’s High School National Championship Tournament will be hosted in Stanford, Calif. on the weekend of May [...]

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By John Birch In 2011, 91 Nations, around 30 tournaments, and over 400 internationals were played making it by far, the busiest year for women’s 7s rugby there has ever been. And not only was more rugby played, the game continued to expand its horizons with three countries playing their first internationals – Cameroon, New [...]

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 Irish Rugby: Ireland Women’s head coach Philip Doyle has named an extended squad of 44 players for autumn training, as preparations begin for next year’s Six Nations campaign. The players have been chosen from clubs and provinces around the country along with a number of Exile players.They will now begin a 10-week strength and [...]