Women In Leadership Directive Profile: Tracy-Ann Hales, Jamaica
If you asked Tracy-Ann Hales about her passion for rugby, she wouldn’t regal you with a childhood story about falling in love with the sport at a young age. Actually, Tracy-Ann has never been a rugby player. Instead, she found rugby after joining the Jamaica Rugby...
RAN to support Tracy-Ann Hales, Zhenya Allain in Executive Leadership Development
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...
Women in Leadership Directive Profile: Caroline Deegan, Cayman Islands
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...
BVI RFU launches online store through RAN, Osprey Sports Partnership
July 21, 2021 – Today, British Virgin Islands Rugby Football Union (BVI RFU) launched their official online store through Rugby Americas North’s partnership with Osprey Sports. Hosted on RAN’s website with a link directly to Osprey Sports’ digital store, the online...
“Mature, united and ready to go” – Emilie Bydwell on the Women’s Sevens Eagles Olympics mission
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...
Olympics star Lauren Doyle helps to put USA rugby on the map
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 tower, with...
KAT ROCHE TO MAKE HISTORY AS FIRST FEMALE LEAD REFEREE IN MAJOR LEAGUE RUGBY
DALLAS (July 15, 2021) – Today Major League Rugby (MLR) will make history. The Houston SaberCats will square off with the Seattle Seawolves for their final round match of the season, but with both teams out of the playoff picture, it will be a referee who will be...
Scientific approach helping Amelia Luciano rise through match official ranks
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...
Women in Leadership Directive Profile – Alexandria Olton, Trinidad & Tobago
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,...
Women in Leadership Directive Profile – Fabiola De La Cruz Ayala, Mexico
10 years ago, Fabiola De La Cruz discovered rugby after butting into a friend’s conversation. She heard one friend invite another to play rugby, and decided that she would also like to give it a try. Her friend encouraged her to try it out, as his sister played on the...