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**truebluefan** · 03-22-2009, 04:08 PM

The women's rugby team won the Midwest regional title in the fall and earned a ticket to the national playoffs this April.

But after doing some calculating, the team's celebration was short lived.

The team has been trying to solve the cost of playing for the title since November.

Senior Stephanie Gillespie said between the hotel and transportation in Florida, the trip could end up costing the team around $15,000.

"We are trying to go as cheap as possible," Gillespie said. "At this moment, we have plane tickets there and back, but no hotel or transportation while we are there."

The team will be flying to Orlando, Fla., April 16 to 19, where they will be playing two games as a No. 2 seed.

SRU will be playing a school from the west, which is still unknown because that division hasn't finished the regular season yet.

The women's rugby team is a club sport.

SRU does not give them money for any of their travel or financial needs.

But they are able to requests funds from SGA, the same as most organizations and groups on-campus.

Gillespie said they have put a request in with SGA to receive funding for their hotel and transportation to the field. They are waiting to hear back.

Club President Callie Verrette said the team would be traveling with only 21 members, leaving 15 players behind.

"We can only take so many players to nationals because of not being funded by the school," Verrette said. "It has been really hard coming up with ideas and raising the amount of money needed in order to go."

The team has done a variety of fundraisers, which included a magazine sale, spaghetti dinner, T-shirt sale and bake sale.

So far, the team has raised nearly half of what they will need in order to make this trip to Florida.

The team has also received donations from family members and is seeking to try to gain sponsorships from businesses.

"We sent out 300 letters to businesses asking them for donations," Verrette said. "The only one that was willing to donate was Sheetz."

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**truebluefan** · 03-26-2009, 04:50 PM

The women's rugby team earned first place out of four teams in a "play-in" tournament Friday and Saturday.

Chico State and the Brigham Young University Cougars, who placed second, will advance to the Pacific coast regional playoffs April third and fourth at Stanford, said head coach Alex Triantafyllou.

Friday's game determined if the Wildcats would enter play-offs or end their season, he said.

"We needed to win this tournament to get the best seed at Sweet Sixteens," Triantafyllou said. "We started off with intensity and maintained it for two 80 minute games."

The Wildcats ended the University of Oregon Duck's season with a 19-7 victory, dominating on offense and maintaining an intimidating, unified defense.

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**truebluefan** · 03-26-2009, 04:51 PM

With its original captain in attendance Saturday, the ISU women's rugby team began its spring 2009 season in dominating fashion, beating Northern Illinois 98-0.

Junior flanker/scrumhalf Jackie Brown scored the Redbirds' first five points by running through the goalposts and recording a try. By getting the ball to the center of the try zone, she also set up a centered conversion kick opportunity for junior prop Danielle Kiessel.

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**truebluefan** · 03-26-2009, 04:52 PM

It has absolutely nothing to do with the fact Australia won the women's World Cup and didn't come within cooee of winning the men's. Although, now that I mention it, what a fantastic performance from the Wallaroos in defeating pre-tournament favourite England in the quarter-finals, the Lady Boks in the semi-finals and arch-rival New Zealand in the extra-time final.

But it was not who won the women's tournament that was important, except of course to Australians. It was the fact that for the first time in history there was a women's World Cup sevens tournament. Had it been a men-only affair, then Dubai would have been a dead-end, instead of a vital stop on rugby's journey to Copenhagen in October.

Not a city that appears on too many rugby itineraries is the Danish capital, but to a very significant degree that's where it will be decided if rugby is to be or not to be a truly global sport. Because it will be in Copenhagen that the International Olympic Committee's congress will determine which two of seven candidate sports -- sevens rugby being one of them -- will be added to the existing list of 26 sports for the 2016 Games.

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**truebluefan** · 03-26-2009, 04:52 PM

Canada women's captain Maria Gallo believes Dubai's first-ever Women's Rugby Sevens World Cup "will open the door" to bigger and better things for the women's game in the future.

Sixteen women's teams are currently vying in the inaugural women's competition at The Sevens and Gallo feels this one-time piggybacking will show the world the women's game is exciting enough to go around the world on its own.

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**truebluefan** · 03-26-2009, 04:54 PM

When Sue Day steps on to the turf today at The Sevens, she and the England team that she captains will also be stepping into the history books.

The inaugural Women's Rugby World Cup Sevens gets under way today, a day after the men's tournament began, and Day believes the inclusion of the female form is a major step forward for the sport.

"You can't overstate just how important it feels to be part of the first ever World Cup," said Day. "I think all the teams just want to put on a good show."

The England team were the No1 seed going into the tournament and although Day is feeling confident of emulating her country's men's team, who won the inaugural Rugby World Cup Sevens event in 1993, she is wary of the opposition.

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**truebluefan** · 03-26-2009, 05:08 PM

To Wales the glory - they scored a narrow 13-10 win over a gallant Irish fifteen and with it their first ever Triple Crown at sun soaked Taffs Well Saturday.
The RBS 6 Nations Champions though are England who won 72-3 against Scotland at the London Welsh RFC in Richmond earlier this afternoon.That game saw Worcester's Katherine Merchant score four tries whilst a hat trick came from Charlotte Barras of Saracens.

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**truebluefan** · 03-26-2009, 05:09 PM

Saturday the premier college rugby teams from the Southeast United States will face off and see whose National Title challenge is real.

This weekend, March 28 and 29, the University of Alabama will host in Tuscaloosa. Those teams who topped their matrices in women's Division 1 and 2 and mens 2 and 3 will play-off against each other and send on representative from each to the nationals.

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**truebluefan** · 04-12-2009, 03:52 PM

The West Chester Rams rugby team entertained the Senior Day crowd on Saturday with a stellar victory that showcased all three seniors scoring a try in their final home day game at West Chester

**truebluefan** · 04-12-2009, 03:53 PM

The West Chester women's rugby team had high hopes going into the weekend tournament in Virginia, but were crushed in their opening match up with Navy, 62-5.??

The MARFU (Mid Atlantic Rugby Football Union) tournament is used to rank teams in the NCAA Tournament. In an almost round robin form, the teams each play two games in the weekend. The champion of the weekend will be ranked in the top four. ??

West Chester's first game was against Navy on Saturday morning. Navy is ranked No. 2 in the country. The Golden Rams were able to hang in there throughout the first half, but were held scoreless in the second half as Navy ran away with the match.

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