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Highland entered the 2025-26 season expecting a year of adapting to change (read more). The Rugby Ohio board of directors and the Buzzards’ coaching staff swapped out, but there was a solid group of players who had been with the program and playing together since 6th grade. Chief among them was junior Amy Rolinc, one […]

The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletics Association (MIA) has only known one champion since girls’ high school rugby became a varsity sport in 2017: Belmont High School. But that is not to say that every season is pure domination over the competition. Even the Marauders, which ran with approximately 65 players this year, have to adjust to […]

eagles.rugby — The USA Women’s National Team (WNT) has landed in South Africa for a two-test tour against the Springbok Women, marking the Women’s Eagles first time playing on South African soil. The teams last met in London in March 2024, and the USA won that game 38-17. [Photo: Griff Hastings] The opening test match […]

The USA Rugby U23 All-Star 15s Tournament brings the country’s best age grade talent together at one location – this year, Clearwater, Minn., a convenient location for the head of the USA Rugby High Performance Pathway Program for women, Martha Daines. In a dense field of talent, Midwest loose forward Ava Reuter was named U23 […]

The Midwest won the USA Rugby U23 All-Star 15s Tournament for the first time in this modern era of the event. The Thunderbirds beat the Mid-Atlantic and Pacific South during day one in Clearwater, Minn., and then ended with a redemptive title win against the Rocky Mountain Peaks last Sunday. Wisconsin native and rising senior […]
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