During the autumn foliage of October, 2010, Head Coach, Doc Jones, received an invitation to send a Kutztown 7’s squad to the largest rugby tournament in North America – The Las Vegas Invitational Rugby Tournament. Kutztown was familiar with this venue and had ventured to the dessert classic, the previous season. However, in 2010, Doc [...]
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Two Kutztown Rugby Alumni serve our country as Army Rangers. That’s Staff Sergeant Mike Rossi on the left and Private Tom Fontanesi on the right. They are celebrating the day Tom graduated from boot camp. Tom Fontanesi was a member of the Kutztown Rugby Team that traveled to New Mexico for the USA Rugby Sweet [...]
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
After one month of tryouts and numerous training sessions, the Golden Bear 7’s squad was selected to compete in the 2011 Las Vegas Invitational 7’s Tournament. The competition within the Kutztown camp was fierce and some excellent rugby players were left with another year to prepare. The training was extremely demanding, with daily runs and [...]
Monday, February 7, 2011
The Lift-A-Thon is a new fundraiser for the Kutztown University Rugby Program. The money will be utilized for the purchase of equipment, medical supplies and travel expenses. The new CPL season has the team traveling to Navy, Rutgers and Dartmouth, not to mention the astronomical expense for the playoff travel. Our annual spring break tour [...]
Monday, February 7, 2011
Kutztown University Rugby had the privilege of having USA U-20 Head Coach, Scott Lawrence on campus for three days of specific defensive instruction. Along with his national coaching duties, Coach Lawrence is also the Director of Rugby at Life University. He is one of the most dynamic and knowledgeable young coaches in America. His passion [...]
Sunday, February 6, 2011
The fall rugby raffle was sponsored by the Kutztown Rugby Parents Association. The prize was a $ 100.00 Sheetz Gift Card. The winner is a Kutztown University student, Alex Delso, from Honeybrook, Pennsylvania. Needless to say, Alex was surprised and elated to have won the card. He explained that he bought the ticket to support [...]
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Jim Fitzgerald and Cory Collins in the news.
Recent Kutztown University graduate and Kutztown Rugby stalwart, Jim Fitzgerald, is now a student at Palmer College of Chiropractic. He recently played in the National Mens, Division One Final Four Championship, with Palmer College. Unfortunately the Dragons didn’t win the national title, but Jim was instrumental in their [...]
KU Rugby has been sponsored by CMI Plastics to help raise awareness and monies for the fight against childhood cancer. With every KU Rugby victory, CMI will put $100 towards the cause. Find out more here.
CMI Supports KU Rugby & The Community
Friday, February 18, 2011
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