George got his start in Rugby during a stint at the International School of Kuala Lumpur, where he was accompanying his father on his one year sabbatical. Upon returning to Barbados in 1984, George restarted rugby at Harrison College and at age 17 was invited to National training. Thus began a Rugby career that would span 22 years as a player and 14 years as a referee. George captained Barbados in the 1999 RWC Qualifier against Bermuda in 1997 and played rugby until 2006. George served as President of the Barbados Rugby Football Union between 2008-2014, and was elected to the Executive Committee of NAWIRA (subsequently NACRA and now Rugby America’s North (RAN) in 2008. George has served on the regional Executive Committee for 8 consecutive years.

Miguel started playing rugby at the French Lycee in Mexico city when he was 12 and went on to play Junior Rugby (Centre) and championship with the French Lycee. He later founded the Wallabies Rugby Club in Mexico 1979 and won the Senior National Champions 3^rd year in 1981. The Club still exists and has had 9 championships. Miguel also played on the Mexico National Men’s Team and later was a cofounder of Black Thunder Rugby Club with his son Miguelito and their friends.

Executive Experience:

• Vice President of the Mexican Rugby Union, 1997-1999
• President of the Mexican Rugby Union, 1999
• Founder of the Mexican Rugby Federation, 2003
• President of the Mexican Rugby Federation, 2003 – 2011
• Served on the Executive Committees of NAWIRA and NACRA
• Founder of the Pan American Rugby Association, 1998
• Secretary General of the Pan American Rugby Association
• Treasurer of the Association of Pan American Sports Confederation (ACODEPA) since 2015

Cristina’s passion for rugby started from her first game, playing at University, in New Brunswick, Canada in 1979. When she moved to Southern Ontario in 1983, there were no women playing rugby, so she joined the St. Catharines Rugby Club Board and became the Fixtures Secretary.

After having her 3 children, she attended McMaster University for a 2nddegree and started to play again with the University’s rugby club and with the Hamilton Hornets Rugby Club, going on to win the Niagara Rugby Union (NRU) championships 3 years in a row.

In 1997, the Hamilton Hornets hosted the PARA (Pan-American rugby Association tournament) and Cristina’s languages came in handy when she became the Canadian Liaison for the Uruguay and Argentina Teams.

She then joined the NRU Board of Directors, and went on to Chair the Organizing Committee for the Canadian Women’s National Championships for the next 3 years. Cristina is still involved with Kit Aid , and raising money for Women’s rugby in Canada and Mexico.

She still plays touch rugby with the Niagara Old Boys.

• 2006-2008 Mexican Rugby Federation Board Director
• 2000-2003 Rugby Canada Board Director
• 2004-2006 Ontario Rugby Union Board Director
• 2001-2003 Canadian Rugby Board representative to the North American/West Indies Rugby Assoc. (NAWIRA)

• 2002- Advisor in the interpretation of various documents including North America and the Caribbean NAWIRA Charter of Rights

• 1996-2000 Niagara Rugby Board

Coaching: Ancaster High school, and Appleby College, in Ontario

Niall is the General Manager of RAN and the former Chief Operations Officer. Niall has extensive knowledge and experience of rugby in the region having first began working for NAWIRA (North America West Indies rugby Association) in 2003 as it’s Development Planning Officer. Originally from the UK, Niall has lived and worked in North America and the Caribbean since 1992 and is a Chartered Accountant by profession having also spent over 24 years in the financial services sectors in the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands (“BVI”). He also holds a B. Sc. (Hons) Degree in Physical Education, Sports Science and Recreation management from Loughborough University, England. Niall resides in the BVI from where he leads a team of four RAN staff members and oversees the finances and accounting function of RAN, communications with World Rugby, Corporate Governance, marketing and RAN’s administration, as well as the organisation and delivery of RAN’s competitions.

Kennedy grew up as a multi-sport athlete in northeast Pennsylvania, graduated from Marywood University, and attended graduate school at the University of Denver for Sport Psychology. USA Rugby was Kennedy’s first job post, where she oversaw youth programs. At the time she also began to pursue playing and coaching.

Kennedy has previously worked with RAN, USA Rugby, Rugby Canada, and the International Olympic Committee on youth programming and the Youth Olympic Games.

Her background is in rugby development, programming, and administration, with over ten years working in rugby.

As a co-founder of Girls Rugby, Kennedy built youth programs from the ground up. Girls Rugby provides programming for young girls aimed at leadership development and empowerment, and in under one year in existence is has grown to serve five locations throughout the US.