Xannie Quiring passes the ball moments before being tackled during a drill at Patriots rugby practice on Oct. 20, 2024. For decades, Kansas City only had a single women's rugby team. Inspired partly ...

Interest in women’s rugby in the United States jumped after the American team beat Australia for the bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics The Twin Cities Gemini professional rugby team plays at TCO ...

1 Centre for Health, and Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport, University of Bath, Bath, UK 2 UK Collaborating Centre on Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport, University of Edinburgh and Bath, ...

In her junior year at LaSalle University, Baltimore resident Jillian Szczepaniak-Gillece started a women’s rugby team. The reason? “We were bored, and we wanted to hit people,” she recalled, laughing.

Volleyball and track drove Marisa Hall as a student-athlete at Park High School in Cottage Grove. But then she found rugby — a game that matched her competitive nature and her toughness. She was ...