by Bryan Kelly | Jul 27, 2021 | Jamaica, St. Lucia, Women's Rugby
Rugby Americas North (RAN) is pleased to announce that it will be financially supporting both Tracy-Ann Hales and Zhenya Allain as they take the Women in Leadership online course through Cornell University to further their executive leadership development. Both...
by Lauren Rothwell | Jul 22, 2021 | Cayman Islands, Women's Rugby
Playing rugby wasn’t an option for Caroline Deegan during her years at school and college. While she enjoyed watching rugby on television, there weren’t any recreational programmes catering to girls and women. Instead, she turned to field hockey and cross country...
by Bryan Kelly | Jul 20, 2021 | Olympics, USA, Women's Rugby
Ten years ago, Emilie Bydwell “took a punt” and packed in a secure job to travel from one coast of the United States to the other to fulfil her ambition of making a living out of rugby. At that stage in 2011, the Canadian, who’d taken up rugby as a 14-year-old...
by Bryan Kelly | Jul 20, 2021 | Olympics, USA, Women's Rugby
As you approach Boody, Illinois, there is nothing remarkable about the place but it could soon be ‘home’ to an Olympic champion. On the one road in and the one road out, as you pass on through to Decatur to the north or St Louis to the south, a huge water...
by Bryan Kelly | Jul 6, 2021 | USA, Women's Rugby
Amelia Luciano admits that she is almost constantly on the go, her time split between her two major passions: pharmacology and rugby. By day, Luciano can be found at the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Guertin Lab, where she works as a postdoctoral...
by Lauren Rothwell | Jul 1, 2021 | Trinidad & Tobago, Women's Rugby
Rugby has always played a major role in Alexandria Olton’s life. She spent much of her childhood as a spectator, watching her dad and her uncles play rugby for Trinidad Northerners RFC. Her time pitch-side allowed Alex to become fully immersed in the sport, culture,...