Thursday, December 13, 2012

Hitting the Links - Dec 13

Junior All Americans (US U20 MNT & WNT)

Coaches, do you have a player eligible for U20 selection that you think has a chance? Follow this link to a page detailing dates of selection camp and process to get them invited. Congratulations to Taylor Hayes of UT Rugby for receiving an invite to a selection camp already!

IRB Women's 7s World Series in Houston

The IRB announces what team will be there (I applied as a liaison for the Russian team because I know Houston fairly well and Потому что я говорю на русском).

You can help fill the stadium with kids aspiring to be Olympians with some rather reasonable donations. This is a great method for any Texas Rugby Club (Age-grade, High School, Collegiate, Men's/Women's) to pool a small amount of money to create some goodwill for our sport!

RugbyTexas

HS Boys Rugby National Invitational Championship unveiled.

Subscribe to the RugbyTexas feed!

Make sure your schedules get sent in!

SWWC

The UT-Dallas Mercury (Student Newspaper) posted a blurb about the UTD Women's Rugby team forming and when their first match is scheduled!

ARC/SWC

Donal Walsh talks about why USASevens made the changes to this year's CRC in Philadelphia and there is a list of current attendees with the University of Texas on it.

Coach Winchester at CrossfitCentral in Austin, TX talks about getting the UT Rugby team into better shape over the last two years.

Miss Cellaneus

While this has nothing to do with HS or College rugby, it WILL have far-reaching implications for those players who matriculate to the Senior Men's & Women's leagues. USA Rugby's presentation for Senior Men's & Women's XVs & 7s competitive structure. It's a PDF file, save it and get to know it.

The International Rugby Coaching Association's (IRCA) new website is live. Go check it out!

Finally, CONGRATULATIONS to former US 7s Eagle, Dallen Stanford, for becoming a US Citizen today!

And now for something completely different!