Your Scrumhalf Connection - Women's Rugby Blog

This NY Times article has been circulating all over the Internets for the last few weeks. I love the article and love the publicity it has been getting. Check out a few paragraphs below or here and view the whole article.

WASHINGTON — The rugby practice field at Hyde Leadership Public Charter School bears little resemblance to the manicured lawns of the English boarding school where the sport was born. It is more brown than green, and sirens sometimes drown out the shouts of players. Then there are the occasional interruptions, like when play was briefly halted during a recent practice as a man darted about wildly on a nearby street, calling football plays and evading imaginary tacklers.

But this patch of mud and grass is more than the home of what is believed to be the nation’s first all-African-American high school rugby team. It is also where a growing number of students have been exposed to a sport they once knew nothing about and to parts of society that once seemed closed to them.

Once again, view the complete article here and thanks to Katie P., view the video here.