Your Scrumhalf Connection - Women's Rugby Blog

Whew, sorry I haven't been posting very often, this week has been pretty exhausting with practices early in the morning and doing triple duty as a trainer/coach & player. Exhausting!

On Thursday the senior team had all arrived (except for The Girl....that story is for another blog!) and we had our first two training sessions. Since the U23s practiced at the same field right before the Seniors, I was out at the fields again at 7am. They had a good hard physical practice with some split time where the forwards worked on defense and the backs polished off their plays. Practice was hard, intense and we all got a good sweat going on. All of the coaches jumped in to play offense so we had enough to give them a good run on defense.

Side note: I have always had a fascination with seeing if my coaches could really play. It started when I was young and playing soccer...I always wanted to challenge my coach and really see if they could hang. This fascination continues on now, so it was cool to see Angie, Will and Mary play and see their skills!

So when the Senior team showed up I was all warm and ready to go so I just jumped in to our dynamic warm up. It was nice to be back playing rugby at all, but it was also nice to be with old friends and teammates. WE got about 20 minutes in before we were asked to leave the practice field and were ushered up to the adjacent softball pitch. Evidently the field was not reserved after all as they wanted to do some maintenance on the fields. So we were forced to do walking rugby because the field was very hilly and not ideal for running at all. We adjusted and were able to get some training in and practice went well for our first gathering as a team again.

After practice we headed out to get some lunch and rest before our second training of the day in a few hours. Our van was full of energy as we had car dancing, loud music and lots of stories fro our past West adventures. It was great to be back with old friends and to reminisce about our playing days together.

The second training of the day was much better as we had an actual field to practice on. We had to do some bartering to get what we needed, but we ended up sharing the field with the MARFU U23 and Seniors...so no big deal. Practice was intense and sweaty as we did plenty of defense and a long team run. Our coaches drills are always interesting and I really enjoy them, so I look forward to trainings.

The night was simple and easy as we had team dinner and most of us hit the sack. Maybe tomorrow will blog about The Girl's long journey to PIT and the debacle that was...

Links to Day 1 NASC - West U23s, Day 2 NASC - West U23s, Day 3 NASC - West U23s and Seniors, 2008 NASC Day 4 - West U23s & Seniors, 2008 NASC Day 5 - West U23s & Seniors, 2008 NASC Day 6 - West U23s & Seniors and the 2008 NASC Full Results.