Rutland U-19 Women in Territorial Tournament

This weekend the Rutland Under 19 Women’s Rugby team travel to
Springfield Massachusetts to the Northeast Rugby Union tournament.

Rutland earned the #1 seed out of the New England region by defeating
perennial powerhouse Portland, Maine 29-5. As the number 2 seed in the
tournament, Rutland will play the New Jersey #2 seed and the New York
State #1 team for the right to advance to the national championships
in Pittsburgh the weekend of May 16th.

The team is a Rutland recreation department program that is in part
sponsored by the National Guard. This year’s Rutland’s U19 Women have
posted a 3-0-1 record in the spring season including victories over
local rivals Colchester and Adirondack and a tie against the defending
New England champions Lincoln/Sudbury.

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"In our country, true teams rarely exist . . . social barriers and personal ambitions have reduced athletes to dissolute cliques or individuals thrown together for mutual profit . . . Yet these rugby players. with their muddied, cracked bodies, are struggling to hold onto a sense of humanity that we in America have lost and are unlikely to regain. The game may only be to move a ball forward on a dirt field, but the task can be accomplished with an unshackled joy and its memories will be a permanent delight. The women and men who play on that rugby field are more alive than too many of us will ever be. The foolish emptiness we think we perceive in their existence is only our own.”
Victor Cahn
"The Changing Room"