It's Finally Here We are excited to announce a new opportunity for New Orleans Area High School girls to give rugby a try. Our goal is an inter-school league this coming spring. But first there will be 6 Introduction Practices for young women to come see what it's all about and give it a try. 6 Intro Practices Saturdays 9-11am Oct 12th - Nov 16th New season in the Spring 2020 between Mardi Gras and the end of the school year. Registration at https://nolabarbarians.com/ Cont

USA Rugby will be coming to hold a player ID camp for players born 2000 - 2005 and a coaching development clinic. The coach clinic will be Saturday, January 19, from 9-3. The player ID camp will be Sunday, January 20, from 1:00-3:30. The coaching clinic is $95 per person. The player ID is $45 per player. Re: coaching clinic--this will not be another "Level 200" certification course, but rather, will be focused on teaching the latest in rugby coaching techniques. Anyone who

From the Bayou Hurricanes: This is a big game for you guys with a chance to make a statement in the league. How are you and the guys getting ready? We are focusing on our style of play and really working on adding some new wrinkles. The boys are looking towards this big match this Saturday. They took hard losing to them in the State Final last year. They are ready for this challenge. Are they looking forward to it? Oh, yeah the crowd will be there to watch a great match by b

On a warm St Patrick's Day morning in City Park, Br Martin took on league rival St Paul. St Paul started the game in the Br Martin half of the field through hard charging runs and Br Martin penalties. After a few minutes, St Paul cracked the Crusader defense and scored first. The conversion was good and St Paul took a 7-0 lead. The Crusaders couldn't get out of their half of the field for a long stretch of the first half. Every time the Crusaders would seemingly make a p

Hello Coaches! My name is Taylor Howden, Captain and Academy Coordinator of the NOLA Gold. Originally from Auckland, New Zealand, I moved to the USA in 2006 and have played and coached in all regions of the country. I have a passion for developing young rugby men and women and providing opportunities for young players to fulfill their sportin g potential. In this message, I would like to cordially invite you and your players to the first ever NOLA Gold High School Combine at

This is a repost of an email from the USA Rugby South Admins. For more information contact pantheru19men@usarugbysouth.com. This month the Panthers will be holding All-Star try-outs and player camps for both boys and girls in Tennessee, Florida, North Carolina, and Missouri (see Events below). The goal of these camps is to select and pool players for participation in the invitational USA Sevens Rugby tournament in Las Vegas, NV in March, the prestigious North American Hig

With the continued growth of rugby within Louisiana, there comes the needfor more coaches, referees and club administrators to ensure our success going forward. If you are interested in joining the rugby community at any level, see below for opportunities to get certified: November 10, 2018 In conjunction with the annual Battleship Tournament in Mobile, AL, the following courses will be offered: -Coaching of Match Officials 1 - Mobile, AL Register: https://webpoint.usarugby.o

The Louisiana Rugby Annual General Meeting will be Sunday August 20th at 2pm upstairs at Joey K's restaurant 3001 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70115. I will be sending out an Agenda in the coming days. Feel free to forward this along. I apologize if you get this more than once. Nominations are due by July 6th. Nominations are now open for the 5 Executive Officers (President, Vice, Secretary, Treasurer, and Officer #5) Nominations are open for the 5 At-Large directors/board m

Comments from the Bayou Hurricanes Coaches: Laying low in anticipation of the storm!!! We lost center James Williams to a red card during the Barbarians game so we will have to reshuffle the back line again. However, we will have starters back at hooker (Reese Guidry) and wing/center (Shane Wright) who were lost to injury in the last couple of games. We have some young men, Kenny Ferriera and Gabriel Cardenas that have joined us this year and who have stepped into starting ro

The 20116-2017 High School Rugby season is coming to an end. The League Championship games will be April 22nd at the Gretna pitch (approx 841 Gretna Blvd, Gretna, LA 70053). There will be a fee to enter The current schedule is: 10:00am - 11:30 Youth rugby 12noon St Paul or SHARC v Jesuit B 1:30pm - 2:00pm Youth Rugby 2:30pm Brother Martin v NOLA Barbarians 4:00pm Announcing the All State Team 4:30pm Jesuit v Bayou Hurricanes (Championship Game) 6:00pm Trophy C

Coaches and Players: I. AWESOME SKILLS CAMP LED BY U.S. EAGLE NESE MALIFA Next Sunday, January 29, at New Orleans’ Rugby’s Gretna facility (910 Gretna Blvd, Gretna), starting at 9:00 a.m., former US Eagle great and current Tiger Rugby instructor Nese Malifa will lead a skills camp. The camp will conclude at approximately 3:30 p.m. For more information on Tiger Rugby, see here: http://www.tigerrugby.com/ II. USA SOUTH u19 PANTHERS IDENTIFICATION The camp will a

Good afternoon Louisiana Rugby, Maccabi USA is excited to announce that we will once again be fielding a Junior Boys’ (birth years 1999-2002) Rugby team the 20th Maccabiah Games in Israel during the Summer of 2017! We are looking for Jewish Rugby players to go for the gold in this once in a lifetime experience. What: -20th Maccabiah Games in Israel Who: -Jewish Athletes from all over the world -Division- Junior Boys’ (birth years 1999-2002) When: -Summer 2017- Late June throu

There will be two social 7's tournaments in New Orleans for the remainder of the summer. The dates are: Saturday July 16 Saturday August 6 (this is a slight change from the last e-mail due to conflicts) There will be two brackets: 1-High School (must have been eligible for last year's high school league, i.e., just graduated in May) 2-Men's social bracket Please let Gary Giepert (giepert@cox.net) know if you are interested in putting a team in. The fees will be ju

Dear Exiles: First off, we thank you all for being both attentive and patient. Here’s a better update on this weekend. I. Saturday – Battleship Park (Mobile) This will be a day trip. No sleep over. The plan is to leave from Lakeside Mall (meet in front of Restoration Hardware) at 8:30. We’ll travel to Battleship Memorial Park (2703 Battleship Parkway Mobile) where we will have practice from roughly 11:00-1:00 and then a scrimmage against the Battleship team. The s

Congratulations to this year's outstanding players. The players received their medals or certificates at Pan American Stadium April 30th. #HighSchoolRugby #LeagueChampionship #AllLeague

The Semi Final match ups are set for the 2016 League Championship Tournament. On Saturday April 23rd the New Orleans Barbarians will travel to Raceland to face the undefeated Bayou Hurricanes. In the game with the #2 and #3 seeds Jesuit will host St. Paul's Wednesday evening April 27th. In March Jesuit and St. Paul's played a close game (19-12) in Covington so that game is set up to be a close one to watch. The winners of those two games will face off in the League Champi

The 2016 Louisiana Rugby Championship will be April 30th at Pan American Stadium in City Park, New Orleans, LA. A draft schedule is below with games starting at 10:00 AM. The High School Championship will begin at 7:30 PM. Other highlights during the day are some Rookie Rugby matches for ages 7-12. Kids with no rugby experience can get involved in those matches, so bring athletic clothes! The Men's team (NORFC) will take on HARC from Houston at 3PM in a Red River Confere

“Charter schools see rough sports as a way to increase girl’s confidence” The utilization of rugby as a means to promote girls self-esteem and confidence continues to develop within High School sports throughout the United States. The Noble charter schools in Chicago, IL provide a prime example of a private school system dedicated to empowering their female youth through rugby and what competition within a city can do for the development of the programs and the athletes which