Category Archives: Championships

Spring Wrap-Up

Championships, Fundraisers, General Announcements, Match Reports, Media Coverage, Player Acheivements

The 2017 spring 15’s season posed challenge, growth, and numerous learning opportunities that revealed CWR’s physical and mental resilience. With the addition of Humboldt State to our league, Cal faced off against Chico State, UC Davis, Humboldt State, and Stanford University for a total of eight matches. After falling to Humboldt the first game of the season, we defeated them on their home pitch in Arcata 45-32 after a grueling double-header the previous weekend. Other highlights of the season include practices…

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Cal Heads To UC San Diego For PMRC Playoffs

Championships, General Announcements

Despite a tough league season this year, Cal Women’s Rugby has made it to the playoffs! The team will face UC San Diego this Saturday, March 26th. The UCSD Tritons are sure to give Cal a great match, as they’ve gone 10-0 in their PMCR South league this season. Head Coach Mari Triplett, started her rugby career as an undergraduate at UCSD and is excited to return to her old home pitch for the playoff match. “While I have fond…

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Cal Wraps Up Spring Season with 7s Nationals

Championships

Cal Women’s Rugby has wrapped up the spring season since returning from the 7s National Championship in Denver May 23rd & 24th, 2015. We would like to congratulate Penn State Rugby​ on their National Championship wins in BOTH 15s and 7s. Clearly, they have a dominant program. As always, we hope to get ever closer to that goal ourselves and look to programs such as Penn and Central Washington for a model of how to achieve that. No shortage of hard…

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Cal Gears Up For 7s Nationals in Denver, May 21-24

Championships, Fundraisers

The Cal Women Rugby’s 7 Squad is gearing up to compete at the USA Rugby Collegiate National 7’s Championship in Denver on May 21-24, 2015. Cal qualified for a spot at Nationals back in the fall by placing first at the Oregon 7s Qualifier and the Stanford 7s Tournament. Coaches Irene Gardner (current USA Rugby 7s National Team Player) and assistant coach Lucy Croy, both Cal Women’s Rugby Alumnae, have balanced keeping the squad fit and focused for 7s while…

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Cal Loses to BYU (59-0) at Round of 16 Nationals

Championships, Match Reports

April 28th, 2014 Cal faced a strong and disciplined BYU Cougars team in the USA Rugby Round of 16 Collegiate D1 National Championships on Friday, April 25th, losing 59-0. Cal could find no space to score and lagged defensively against the bigger BYU back line. Fullback CJ Whiteside was forced to do extra work in the first half, when few Cal defenders could stick their tackle, in no small part to BYU’s strong running and quick offload abilities. BYU went…

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