Category: Member News | Rugby Americas North

RAN to host first-ever women’s online forum in August

by Bryan Kelly | Jun 29, 2020 | Member News, Uncategorized

June 29, 2020 – Rugby Americas North (RAN) is delighted to announce that this August they will be hosting their first-ever women’s online forum with weekly presentations to highlight opportunities for learning and growth within the region specifically for women in...

BARBADOS AND BEYOND – CAPTAIN SEAN IS WARD-ING OFF LIMITATIONS

by Amy Goulding | Jun 25, 2020 | Americas Rugby Challenge, Barbados, Men's 15s, RAN Sevens

It’s a little-known fact that Barbados is renowned as the official birthplace of Caribbean Rugby, with competitive matches between British troops said to date back as far as the early 1900s. Since the 1960s, the national development of the sport has been guided by the...

Charity Williams: ‘The most important thing is people are talking’

by ranMedia | Jun 23, 2020 | Canada

Charity Williams is used to making telling contributions in front of packed stadiums, but nerves surfaced as she addressed an audience in Victoria, British Columbia, earlier this month. Williams had been asked to speak at the Peace Rally for Black Lives by her Canada...

Carpenter: We aspire to win out in USA v Canada rivalry

by ranMedia | Jun 23, 2020 | Canada, USA

The USA and Canada are very similar in many respects, including the same level of desire to win whenever they meet on the rugby field. We talk to former captains, Aaron Carpenter and Blaine Scully, about the great North American rivalry. The rugby rivalry that exists...

HOW PHAIDRA KNIGHT IS HELPING UNDERSERVED YOUTH THROUGH RUGBY

by ranMedia | Jun 23, 2020 | USA

World Rugby Hall of Fame inductee Phaidra Knight discusses the work being done by her non-profit, PeaK Unleashed, which promotes health and well-being to underserved youth through rugby and yoga. It was during a visit to Rikers Island, the main jail complex in New...

The 5 Core Values of Rugby: Video

by ranMedia | Jun 2, 2020 | Member News

In 2009 the World Rugby member unions identified integrity, passion, solidarity, discipline and respect as the defining character-building characteristics of rugby. These are now collectively known as the World Rugby values and are incorporated within the World Rugby...