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Highland Games Tournament Seeks Women's Teams

From the Milwaukee Westside Harlequins:

Club Officers,

The collegiate men's division is closed for Sunday. We are looking for one team to fill the collegiate women's division for Sunday and one team to fill the HS girls' division for Saturday. We will consider a women's club team for the women's collegiate division. We also have several openings for the men's club division on Saturday. Entry is only $150 per team, and players and coaches are given free entry to the Wisconsin Highland Games the day they play. Please contact me if you would like to enter a team. Registration forms are available on our club web site. Thanks.

joe cunningham
harlequins

drew mcmillin
marquette

http://www.milwaukeeharlequins.com/

UW-Milwaukee Women's Rugby Host Camp

Via the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Women's Rugby Team:

Dear Athletes,

UW-Milwaukee Women's RFC will host an intermediate and upper-level skills camp for Women's High School Rugby players and entering college freshman. The camp will be held in Milwaukee from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, August 25th, 2007. Some rugby experience is preferred, but is not required. This camp is open to ALL High School Women's Rugby Players and entering freshman, regardless of which college you plan to attend.

The camp will first work in small groups based on position. Groups will focus on problem-solving methods for improving individual skills in common game situations. Game situations will be presented and then practiced in the smaller groups. The skills you learn will give you a strong skill set for your rugby repertoire. As the camp progresses you will learn group positional skills and work focused attack and defense in units. The camp will wrap up with a scrimmage between two sides formed from the camp participants.

The $30 entrance fee includes a lunch and a T-shirt. The camp fee can be paid online with your completed registration form at:
http://www.uwm.edu/StudentOrg/lprfc/clinic/2007mkegirlscamp.htm
Please register BEFORE AUGUST 11th, 2007!

We are pleased to provide this opportunity to the Wisconsin rugby community. If you have any questions, please feel free to email either myself (jprunckle@yahoo.com) or Jeff Grossman (geebob144man@yahoo.com). Please forward this to other players who may be interested and encourage them to join you.

Sincerely,

J. Scot Prunckle
Head Coach - Backline, UW-Milwaukee Women's RFC
(414) 208-6703

FREE Women's Rugby Clinics

Wisconsin Women's Rugby invites you to participate in a free women's rugby clinic this Tuesday, July 31 or next Tuesday, Aug. 7.

No experience is required!

We'll meet at 6 p.m. at Franklin Park in Madison, next to the Madison City Pool off of Olin Avenue (just west of John Nolen Drive and the Alliant Energy Center).

Any women age 18 and older are welcome to join us to learn more about rugby and our team. Please wear clothes to run around in and running shoes or soccer cleats. Also bring a water bottle.

If you have any questions, please contact the Team President Jessica at ww_rfc@yahoo.com or 608-712-1481. And for more information on our team, visit www.wwrfc.com.

We hope to see you there!

Wisconsin's U-23 Eagles on New Zealand Tour

Via USA Rugby:

USA Women's National U-23 Team Prepare for 2007 New Zealand Tour
For Immediate Release
July 11, 2007

USA Women’s National U-23 Team Prepare for 2007 New Zealand Tour
BOULDER, Colo. – The USA Women’s National U-23 Team announced the squad for a two week long New Zealand Tour, which they will be departing for in late July. The tour will consist of three games in cities on both the country's South and North Islands.

The team will begin the tour with a match against Burnside Rugby Football Club Women's Team in Christchurch on Wednesday, July 25. The second match will be in Palmerston North against the Manawatu Club on Saturday, July 28. The New Zealand tour will conclude with a final game in Auckland on August 4.

“It's important for us to take these kinds of trips, because the standard of play we're aiming for is not set by domestic US competitions. It is set in places like New Zealand and England right now, so we have to go,” said Head Coach Barbara Fugate. “These players will meet a new level of physical intensity and skill, and we hope that each of them will bring some of that back. This kind of tour can be a career-changing experience if the players take full advantage of it."

In addition to playing against world class competition, the members of the U-23 squad will have a once in a lifetime opportunity to spend an evening with Farah Palmer, who captained the New Zealand Black Ferns at the last two Women’s Rugby World Cups. Also on the itinerary for their two weeks abroad is the New Zealand Domestic Women's Club Championship in Auckland on Saturday, August 4, which the U-23 women will be attending.

“We are very excited about this group of 28 players,” Fugate added. “This is a young and extremely athletic team. It is a little bit seasoned in spite of the youth, because it includes many former USA U-19 players who already have some overseas tour experience.”

The U-23 squad for the 2007 New Zealand Tour is as follows: Kirsten Ahrendt (Dartmouth), Tonya Ansel (Sr. MN Mankato), Amber Benlian (Maryland Women), Libby Berg (MN Valkyries), Phoebe Boone (UCSB), Sylvia Braaten (Chicago Northshore), Emilie Bydwell (Brown Univ.), Kate Daley (Penn State Univ.), Kassie Drey (Univ of No Iowa), Sydney Forestal (UNM), Dani Goodman-Levy (Vassar), Kelly Griffin (UCLA), Brea Hughes (Texas A&M), Tess Kohanski (Syracuse), Kristy Lear (U of MN), Tara McBride (Cal State Chico), Schmarrah McCarthy (Purdue), Kati McCormick (Kettle Moraine), Tiffany McCoy (Univ of No Iowa), Jillion Potter (UNM), Naima Reddick (Cal State Chico), Elaine Schlarb (Oregon State Univ.), Jess Travers (UIC), Emily Tunney (Philadelphia Women), Shaina Turley (San Diego Surfers), Krissy Vargas (Cal State Chico), Sheri Villa (American Univ.) and Sarah Wilson (Ohio St).

Accompanying the players will be a staff of six, including: Barbara Fugate, head coach; Martha Daines, assistant coach; Susan Whitwell, assistant coach; Annemarie Henning, program manager; Teresa Tucker, team manager; and Nicole Titmas, athletic trainer.

If you would like to support the U-23 Women’s New Zealand tour, please visit the Support USA Rugby webpage and select "U23 women" in the dropdown menu to designate the U-23 Women’s National Team as the recipient. If you make a donation of $100 or more, you will receive a photo of the team on tour in a scenic New Zealand location when the team returns.

Representing Wisconsin, Sylvia Braaten is a former Marquette University alum and Kati McCormick is a Kettle Moraine HS alum and current UW-Milwaukee player.

Link Update for UW-Milwaukee Women

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Women's Rugby Team has updated its website link - http://www.uwm.edu/StudentOrg/lprfc/.

Be sure and update any links on your team's website or your own list of favorites!

Thanks to Scot Prunkle for the update.

Midsummer 7s - Aug. 28

An update from the Marquette University Women on their annual Midsummer 7s tournament:

Hey all,
Just a reminder that the Marquette women are holding our annual MidSummer 7's tournament on July 28th this year. Entries are $200 per team, and teams are limited to 10 each. We are having a High School tournament in the morning for HS girls and boys, and then the Mens and Womens tournament will follow before noon.

Tournament entries include the corn and potato roast that follows, and all are invited to the social afterwards (not included in the entry fee). Also concessions and T-shirts will be on sale at the tournament as well.Get your entries in as soon possible before the brackets fill up, see the attachment for where to send them.

Thanks alot,Steph Maule

And here is the info from the attachment:

Marquette Women’s Rugby Invites you to the 11th annual Mid-Summer Seven’s
tournament
July 28th, 2007.

At: King Field (17thst. North of Highland Ave.) Men’s, Women’s and High school divisions

Cost per team $200.

Corn roast and social to follow.

Send Payment to:
Marquette Women’s Rugby
c/o Linda Niemela
P.O. Box 270185
West Allis, WI 53227-7204

Please include contact info. as to where to send tournament packet with more info.

Thanks for the update Marquette!

Women's Rugby of Wisconsin Calendar

This calendar was last updated Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007.

If you have an event to add to this calendar, click here and follow these directions:
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• Your Google account will have a login that is your e-mail address (does not need to be a Google address) and a password.
• Fill out the account information and create your account.
• You will then be asked to Add this calendar to your account. Click "Yes, Add this Calendar".
• You can then add new events, times, etc.
• If you have any questions, please e-mail ww_rfc@yahoo.com.

Team and Resource Link Lists

We created a list of all of the women's rugby team websites in Wisconsin on our sidebar. Additionally, we added the links for our rugby unions and other resources sites you may find useful.

If you have a link you'd like to add, please let us know!

Welcome!

This is the new blog for the women's rugby teams of Wisconsin.

We built it to have one place where ALL women's rugby players and coaches can share news, promote their teams and share resources.

It is hosted by the Wisconsin Women's Rugby Football Club (WWRFC) of Madison, Wis., but will include news and updates from all of Wisconsin's senior, collegiate and high school women's rugby clubs.

If you have an update to share, please e-mail ww_rfc@yahoo.com. And check back often for new updates!