Just a quick reminder of the upcoming USA Rugby Senior Club 7s player transfer and registration deadline: July 1, 2021. To fully understand this deadline and all eligibility requirements, please refer to the USA Rugby Regulations, specifically Section 5. Senior Club Sevens. This deadline applies if you: are currently registered to a club that is …
At the request of our members the TRU Board will be releasing their monthly board call minutes and notes. View all of the TRU archived minutes or read on for the most recent notes: Roll Call Young Tate Wilson Kurylas Roche Dodge Hiller Regrets Tomsak COVID protocols dropped Young: Just a reminder as I’ve had a few teams …
The RRRC has confirmed with the USA Rugby National Competitions Committee that plans are in the works for a 2022 XVs USA Rugby National Championship! As such, the RRRC Competitions Committee is already hard at work at building proposed men and women’s league structures. They intend to share that by mid-July with Club Presidents for …
TOLA 7’s has officially kicked off and the first two stops are in the books. June 5th we saw Dallas RFC hosting Lone Star 7’s, while 80 teams descended on Round Rock, TX on June 19th for the historic Bloodfest 7’s hosted by the Austin Huns. While TOLA typically runs in conjunction with RRRC National …
Per the new RRRC Terms of Reference the RRRC Competitions Committee must hold periodic elections. A round of elections should have taken place in 2020 but were postponed due to the COVID pandemic. All members are elected on two year cycles. The committee opted to put up half the seats for election in 2019 and …
Roll Call Young Dale Roche Leming Fosco Watson Kurylas Dodge Kolberg Regrets: Hughes Tolar Keuppens COVID protocols dropped Dodge: The TRU held a special call last week and decided to drop the COVID protocols due to the decreasing numbers of cases. 7s Results? Young: Need the results from Lonestar 7s so we can keep the …
The first TOLA tournament of 2021 is in the books and we’re so happy that rugby is back! We kicked off the 2021 TOLA Series in Dallas with the 40th Lonestar 7s tournament. 26 teams fought all day but in the end, the Huns took the overall title over Dallas in the men’s final while …
The Texas Rugby Union Hall of Fame welcomes four outstanding contributors to the game as the Class of 2021: John Connolly, Scot Courtney, Bob Fleet, and Mary Graham. The newest members will be inducted at the TRU annual conference tentatively scheduled for Nov. 6 in Austin, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the TRU. John Connolly has been a …
The TRU Board held a special meeting tonight to discuss the possibility of lifting COVID protocols. We’ve been watching the infection rates, vaccination rates and all the data is moving in the right direction for our Union. As a result the TRU Board has voted to lift all COVID protocols with the exception of the …