For Middle School Rugby: We had a great practice last night. This Saturday, we have scheduled a touch rugby scrimmage against several teams including Jesuit, Bayou Hurricanes, and Northshore/St. Pauls. The scrimmage will take place from 11-12:30ish. Jesuit is playing St. Pauls at 1p in a high school match. I encourage all families to stay and watch, or at least the boys so they can see what the next step for them is entering high school. Scrimmage: Saturday, February 4, 2017

Middle School rugby is getting started throughout the state. We have teams starting in New Orleans, Covington, Raceland and Shreveport. All boys and girls in grades 6-8 are welcome to attend. Players will be introduced to the game and we will focus on rugby skills, game play, and fitness. All skill levels welcome! Our goal is to have at least as many middle school rugby teams as high school teams in the area within 3 years. For the New Orleans team practice is weekly at 6:

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

The 2017 Game Management Guidelines produced by USA Rugby are now out and linked in this post. This is a very well done document that every coach and really, every player should go through. This will help you better coach some of the more difficult areas of the game like the tackle and ruck. We will also make this available on the website. 2017 Game Management Guidelines Posted Here #USARugby #Coaching #Rugby #Referee

Two different USA rugby courses are now registering. There is a Level 1 Officiating 15s course December 3rd in Gretna, LA. THE COACHING COURSE HAS BEEN POSTPONNED. A NEW DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY. Also, there is a Level 200 Coaching Clinic December 11th in New Orleans at the Annunciation Recreation Center. Both courses are now registering and will need a minimum number of participants to register for them to be held. Every rugby team that plays contact rugby has to

See the revised youth rugby schedule below. First time players are welcome at all of these events! Teams will be made up of local after school programs and play short games against each other. We'll have multiple games going on at once depending upon how many teams we have. #YouthSports #YouthRugby #SportsLeague #Rugby #LouisianaRugby

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

Louisiana Rugby and The Irish House are hosting a World Cup Final watch party on Saturday October 31st at 10AM. The match between New Zealand and Australia will be at 11AM, but join us at 10AM for brunch. The Irish House is generously donating 10% of all food purchases upstairs to Louisiana Rugby. There will be a few raffle items and prizes, but the main event is certainly this great final between two teams in top form. Facebook event link here​ #IrishHouse #Rugby #RugbyWo

See the below graphic for special pricing info only for Louisiana Rugby High School & Youth teams. Chris with Belief sports has been working with teams in our league for close to 5 years now and has been outfitting NORFC in that time as well. Chris can be reached here. See options and create custom jerseys: http://www.beliefsports.com/us/ #Rugby #YouthSports #Jerseys

Hello Everyone, It's rugby time again!!! Who: Kids age's 7-12 When: Friday's at 5:30 pm Where: Orleans Ave. and Bayou St. John Practice Dates: Sept 11 - Oct 16 End of Season Tourney: Oct 24 Cost: $70 child $65 second child (sibling discount) We hope you are ready for another exciting year and can't wait to see you! Please pass this to all your friends and children's friends who are interested, the first practice is always free. Go HERE to the youth page to make a regist