Rugby’s done for most of us by now. The High Schools are done except the four that are going to be competing in the USA Rugby National High School Championships in May. One high school St. Thomas out of Houston is one of those four still in contention for that championship. As you may have read from the blog written by Coach Brett Mills and exploits of those competitions, right now St. Thomas is playing some of the best Rugby I’ve seen them play and wish them the best of luck in that championship weekend.

Bring the Championship trophy to Houston and Texas and win or lose, you’ve gone to a level of play only a few schools can say they’ve ever been.

In the College and University Championships, Cal beat BYU 37 – 7 to claim the Division I championships. That’s their 23rd National Championship since 1980. 
In Division II, Middlebury College beat Arkansas State University 38 – 22. 

Many of you high school and college rugby players will be looking for something to do during the summer vacation. Here’s a hint, locate your local Rugby Club side if your school isn’t offering a summer Rugby program. Those Club sides will welcome any and all players for their summer 7’s tournaments or touch leagues.  This accomplishes a couple of things for the clubs and those players running with them.  1) It opens an avenue where that club could recruit a future player after they finish high school or college to maybe come back to and play with.  2) It gives that young player an opportunity to play with some experienced players, gain some knowledge from them in passing, rucking, mauling and generally what to look for while playing this great game.

Right now we’re less than 115 days from the kick off of the 2007 Rugby World Cup (RWC) in France. Right now the USA Eagles will be making their 5th appearance out of 6 RWC’s and currently ranked 13th out of 95 Rugby Playing Nations. In the 2003 RWC the US beat Japan 39 – 26 and just missed beating Samoa in the final minutes of the match, by running in a Try and narrowly missing the conversion. 

They’ll play matches in their pool against England, Tonga, Samoa and South Africa. This will be a huge test for the 31 Eagles as they continue their final competitions leading up to their trip to France in September. 

If you’re looking for more information on the US Eagles you can always go to www.usarugby.org click on National Teams, then click on Men Eagles. This will give you their history, a list of the current Eagles as well as past Eagles and results of any USA Eagles match ever played.

If anyone has any questions or comments, like locating a Rugby Club Side or College Rugby Club, send me those questions and I’d be happy to answer them for you.  

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