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The USA Falcons, formerly the USA Selects is the second national rugby team for the United States. The USA Falcons is a developmental team, usually fielding younger players looking to break into the U.S. national team, and sometimes including amateur domestic U.S. national team players who need more high-level matches.
Played for the United States at the first ever Rugby World Cup in 1987 and scored the first try for the United States in RWC history. Captained the U.S. 7s team to the Plate Championship in 1986. Bob Watkins: 2015: Founding Director of the United States of America Rugby Football Union in 1975 and was a three-term president of USA Rugby.
Rugby union in the United States (Almost always referred to as simply “Rugby”) is played at youth, high school, college, amateur, professional, and international levels and governed by USA Rugby. There were over 125,000 players registered with USA Rugby as of 2016. [ 1 ]
Over 900 college teams—male and female—are registered with USA Rugby and hundreds more with National Collegiate Rugby. [9] Over 32,000 college players are registered with USA Rugby, making college rugby the largest section of its membership. [10] The highest profile college rugby sevens competition is the Collegiate Rugby Championship (CRC ...
PARIS — A big second-half surge and Perry Baker's four tries led the United States to a 33-17 rugby sevens victory over Uruguay on Thursday, keeping American medal hopes alive.
List of United States national rugby union players is a list of people who have played for the United States national rugby union team. The list only includes players who have played in a match recognized by USA Rugby as a test match, whether it was played before or after the governing body was founded in 1975. (In rugby union, any match of a ...
USA Rugby announced on Tuesday that businesswoman and investor Michele Kang, who owns multiple professional women's soccer teams, will gift a $4 million donation to the USA women's rugby sevens ...
Notes: Results current through end of 2019 Rugby World Cup.; The US has never played Wales or Canada in a RWC, even though those two teams have played in every RWC. Ivory Coast, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Georgia, Uruguay, Spain, and Portugal are the other seven nations that have yet to play the US at the Rugby World Cup that have previously qualified.