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USA Rugby to Offer 23 Fulltime Player Contracts
Author: Jarrod Beckstrom
Date: 11/30/2011
For Immediate Release
November 30, 2011
USA Rugby to Offer Fulltime Contracts to 23 Athletes in 2012
- A USA Rugby and USOC partnership will allow USA Rugby to provide 23 rugby sevens athletes (15 men, 8 women) with fulltime training contracts in January 2012
- The 23 athletes will live near and have fulltime access to the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif.
- Both the men’s and women’s sevens teams will compete in more international tournaments in 2012
- There will be expanded training opportunities for USA Rugby’s All-Americans at the Olympic Training Center
So, you have an interest in rugby for your children?
Or your son or daughter is interested in playing rugby?
DON’T PANIC!
Rugby is a wonderful game, with a rich tradition around the world. It is the second most popular sport in the world. Throughout the world people play rugby from grade school through adulthood. In fact, rugby is truly a “Life Sport” because, unlike many American sports, legions of players continue to participate in the Rugby game long after they leave school. Players continue playing competitive rugby for years and years by joining local men’s or woman’s adult clubs. Senior Clubs even have Masters teams composed of players over 35 years of age. Add to this that Rugby is the fastest growing sport in the United States!
Life on the Sidelines
Many, many notable people have played rugby…..Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush; Senator Ted Kennedy; Tom Foley former PA State Commissioner of Labor; Princes William and Harry; former Secretary of State Jim Baker; former Governor of Virgina George Allen; former or current NFL’rs Stewart Bradley, Haloti Ngata, Darrin Nelson, Gary Anderson, David Dixon and Steve Tasker; professional golfer Ernie Els; Tony O’Reilly, chairman of Hienz foods; actor Boris Karloff was a founder of the Southern California Rugby Football Union; fellow screen stars Billy Cambell, Richard Burton, David Niven, Richard Harris and Sean Connery; Saturday Night Live funny man Chris Farley; professional wrestler Andre the Giant and Mark Cuban, self made multi-millionaire and owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks.
Article from: http://www.pacyouthrugby.com/parent-info/
Official Link to the article in the Economist – February 2011
Rugby in America
Worth a try
More and more Americans are being converted to the sport
Feb 3rd 2011 | SAN FRANCISCO | from the print edition
THIS weekend tens of millions of eyes will be glued to television screens as the Pittsburgh Steelers meet the Green Bay Packers in the Super Bowl, which takes place in Arlington, Texas on February 6th. American aficionados of rugby union can only dream of the Croesian sums of money that are lavished on American football, a sport that vaguely resembles rugby in wimpish armour-plating. But although their resources are far more modest they have achieved some notable successes.
One of them has been to get young Americans engaged with the game. Last year almost 360,000 children played a non-contact form of the sport at school, according to USA Rugby, the sport’s national governing body. That has helped raise rugby’s profile: a study by America’s Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association (SGMA) found that between 2007 and 2009 (the latest year for which data is available), it was the fastest-growing team sport in the country, outpacing rivals such as lacrosse and hockey. In 2009, says the SGMA, some 750,000 Americans played rugby, over 20% more than in 2007. “For the sport to be on our radar screen is a sign it’s got some legs,” says Mike May, an executive at the association.
To bolster the game’s appeal, USA Rugby is launching a college premier league next month that will see teams compete in four regional “conferences”, with the top two from each conference heading to playoffs in May. The league’s promoters hope it will act as a magnet for high-school players, as well as introducing rugby to more students. “This represents an enormously powerful opportunity to promote rugby,” says Bill Campbell, an enthusiastic supporter of the game who happens to be chairman of Intuit, a technology giant. (more…)
Rugby – Fastest Growing Sport in America!
Posted: September 29, 2011 in Ages 6-8, Ages 9-12, News, VideosFrom USA Today!
In terms of sports Americans play, wrestling, softball, football, hockey and baseball are long-term losers.
The latest authoritative Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association annual report on U.S. sports participation, based on about 15,000 individual surveys and 24,000 households surveys, found that about 2.1 million Americans say they competed in wrestling last year — down 44% from 2000.
By Nikki Carlson, AP
Other drops in total participants over the past decade even as the U.S. population steadily expanded: slow-pitch softball (-38%), football (-16%), ice hockey (-12%), fast-pitch softball (-11%) and baseball (-8%).
Basketball held steady as the most-played team sport, ending the decade with about as many participants as it had in 2000 — 26.3 million. (That easily topped soccer, which had a total of about 20 million for its outdoor and indoor games.)
Part of the ongoing declines in traditional sport comes from participant growth in niche sports. Between 2009 and 2010, lacrosse had a 38% gain — albeit to a diminutive 1.6 million total players — while rugby jumped 51% to 1.1 million.
Article Link Below
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2011/09/what-us-plays-softball-football-hockey-baseball-down-over-decade/1
Rugby will be an Olympic Sport again in 2016.
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