ANOTHER NC for UCONN...

[EricLA]

This time in women's rugby.

Go UCONN

 

[Nuyoika]

This time in women's rugby.

Go UCONN

OH SNAP! Now I have another sport to try and get my daughter into so she can play @ UConn. Let's just say she's not great @ basketball.

 

[UcMiami]

OH SNAP! Now I have another sport to try and get my daughter into so she can play @ UConn. Let's just say she's not great @ basketball.

Fear not, Rugby is not a scholarship sport - so unless you are looking to increase the cost of her education (they run on donations) maybe you can let her skip the rugby practices!
Congrats to the club!

I played some rugby during a school year in England and it is insane - the non-stop action and full field running of soccer, combined with the physicality of american football, with a bit of 8 on 8 organized train wreck thrown in for good measure. Best part of the game - the pints down the pub after it was over!

 

[RockyMTblue2]

A daughter played for the club. She ran over and through a lot of people. Course she also had shoulder surgery!

 

[msf22b]

Fear not, Rugby is not a scholarship sport - so unless you are looking to increase the cost of her education (they run on donations) maybe you can let her skip the rugby practices!
Congrats to the club!

I played some rugby during a school year in England and it is insane - the non-stop action and full field running of soccer, combined with the physicality of american football, with a bit of 8 on 8 organized train wreck thrown in for good measure. Best part of the game - the pints down the pub after it was over!

We lived in New Zealand for 2 seasons in the mid-90's and if you were to get your fill of sports, you watched Cricket, a bit of Aussie Rules, Netball, pronounced nittball (which is a disaster of a game), and Rugby, which I grew to enjoy thanks to the Rugby version of our UConn Woman...the All-Blacks, led by Jonah Lomu (who unfortunately just passed away).

I remember many happy weekend hours sitting in the hot-springs at Waiwera (North of Auckland) watching the monster TV set up over the pool, the steam rising and the NZ trys coming.

A most happy memory.

My robust youngest son was determined to be a prospect and was steered towards a Rugby factory middle-school, but fortunately escaped to St. Thomas, fifth Ave, to become a choirboy instead.

 

[UcMiami]

We lived in New Zealand for 2 seasons in the mid-90's and if you were to get your fill of sports, you watched Cricket, a bit of Aussie Rules, Netball, pronounced nittball (which is a disaster of a game), and Rugby, which I grew to enjoy thanks to the Rugby version of our UConn Woman...the All-Blacks, led by Jonah Lomu (who unfortunately just passed away).

I remember many happy weekend hours sitting in the hot-springs at Waiwera (North of Auckland) watching the monster TV set up over the pool, the steam rising and the NZ trys coming.

A most happy memory.

My robust youngest son was determined to be a prospect and was steered towards a Rugby factory middle-school, but fortunately escaped to St. Thomas, fifth Ave, to become a choirboy instead.

Nice - have watch some great test matches myself and the All Blacks were very impressive! Hadn't seen that Lomu had died - he was amazing.

I spent five years in Jamaica at the end of their streak of test match dominance in Cricket and got really hooked. It is a game like baseball that has no fixed time limited and lots of quiet time between moments of great drama - it lends itself to some of the best sports writing out there - that and the fact the records go back so far and the game is basic unchanged so comparisons to ancient history are still valid. It is also like baseball a uniquely single combat team game - bowler vs. batsman/pitcher vs. batter.

 

[Zorro]

Damn, Eric! I thought I was going to read that the ncaa had decided to call off the tourney and just award the NC to the Huskies!