What Coaches are Reading this Summer
I stumbled across a book at a thrift store a few weeks ago that really challenged my thinking about what motivates young athletes. The...
1975 Sexist OSU Newsletter
The Old Man, the newsletter of the Ohio State University Men’s Rugby club announced the formation of the Ohio State women’s team. Note the graphic illustration of a female player.
1977 The Pitch
The Tube and the Pitch, two different Ohio State Women’s team newsletters from 1977 show the grassroots organizing, bawdy nature of women’s rugby at the time.
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WRCRA Main
- May 24, 2021
- 8 min
USWRF-WRCRA Horizons Initiative
Building the Next Generation of Coaches and Referees “Crouch, bind, se….mmmph…” Projecting an authoritative voice through a mask was just...
WRCRA Main
- May 13, 2021
- 2 min
The Coaches Bank: Member Driven
I’m a member. The WRCRA Coaches Bank is an important step in developing more sustainable and thriving rugby programs in the United...
WRCRA Main
- Apr 26, 2021
- 4 min
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow are Rugby Days
One year ago, The U.S. Women’s Rugby Foundation (USWRF) launched a three-year project to gather, digitize and archive the artifacts and...
WRCRA Main
- Apr 6, 2021
- 3 min
If It Was Easy, Everyone Would Do It
Good coaching is part art, part intuition, and mostly the product of years of hard, deliberative work. Every coach has a different...
WRCRA Main
- Mar 30, 2021
- 3 min
It's Not About the Weight Room
By Kerri Heffernan When the news broke about the gross inequities between the Women’s NCAA Basketball Championships and the Men’s...
WRCRA Main
- Mar 22, 2021
- 8 min
Who Runs This Mother?
In 1977, Alissa Augello became the first women’s rugby administrator. ‘Jello’, a college student with access to a mimeograph machine,...
WRCRA Main
- Mar 11, 2021
- 4 min
Without the Base...Forget the Height!
An Interview with Erika Morri of the Italian Rugby Federation (Translated from an interview by Lorenzo CIrri for the blog, Ladies Rugby...
WRCRA Main
- Mar 8, 2021
- 5 min
Theory of the Ball Hog: How One Economist Sees the Rugby Field
By Kerri Heffernan Our next speaker feature for the 2021 WRCRA Conference is Chelsea Garber. Chelsea was one of those rare players,...
WRCRA Main
- Mar 3, 2021
- 3 min
2021 WRCRA Conference Keynote: Courage. Connection. Resilience.
Helping your athletes build lives of integrity, confidence, and self-compassion Rachel Simmons’ 20+ years of research and work with...
WRCRA Main
- Feb 25, 2021
- 6 min
15 Colleges that Shaped Women’s Rugby
The history of women’s rugby began at the University of Colorado and Colorado State in 1971, with the first women's collegiate national...
WRCRA Main
- Feb 11, 2021
- 4 min
The Mothers of Dragons: CU, CSU, and the Founders of Women’s Rugby
The idea to start both the University of Colorado Boulder (CU) and Colorado State University (CSU) women’s teams came about over the...
WRCRA Main
- Feb 2, 2021
- 4 min
Mud, Beads, and Bruins: The UCLA Women at the 1979 Mardi Gras Tournament
By Ellen Cunningham When I asked my former teammates what their most vivid memory was of playing in the 1979 Mardi Gras tournament, the...
WRCRA Main
- Jan 28, 2021
- 6 min
Head Injury and Culture of Care in Female Athletes: Q & A with Dr. Donna Duffy
In 2018, the Women’s Rugby Coaches and Referees Association (WRCRA) partnered with Dr. Donna Duffy, Director of the Female BRAIN Project...
WRCRA Main
- Dec 30, 2020
- 3 min
Race to 40: Unleashing your networks of rugby relationships
By Katie Wurst As the challenges associated with COVID-19 continue, colleges across the country are experiencing decreased enrollment....
WRCRA Main
- Dec 1, 2020
- 7 min
All The News That's Fit: The Ongoing Struggle of Women’s Rugby for Coverage
Between September 15 and October 7th, 2020, excitement and intense competition characterized women’s basketball as the WNBA hosted its...
WRCRA Main
- Nov 13, 2020
- 6 min
Million Dollar Babies: The 1984 National Championships and the Chicago Women’s Rugby Club
The women who started it all, at least from an administrative standpoint, were “those Chicago women.” -- Jamie Jordan “Those Chicago...
WRCRA Main
- Oct 30, 2020
- 1 min
USWRF 15 Under 30 Award
The U.S. Women’s Rugby Foundation is pleased to announce the inaugural 15 Under 30 Award. The USWRF created this annual award to...
WRCRA Main
- Oct 14, 2020
- 4 min
The Short, Somewhat Glorious Life of the Houston Heathen Hearts
By Suzanne Cobarruvias In 1976, I was a junior at Texas A&M University. I had injured my ankle playing intramural flag football and was...
WRCRA Main
- Oct 7, 2020
- 6 min
Playing with the Boys: Early Women’s Collegiate Rugby at Vassar College
By Hanna Stasiuk, Vassar '20 In 1895, illustrator Charles Dana Gibson published the latest version of his famous Gibson Girl drawings....