BY Ebenezer Samuel
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER

Brianna Paulino was on the verge of tears.

Just moments earlier, the 10-year-old had been beaming after leading her team to the Play Rugby exhibition flag tournament title at the Henry Street Settlement's Boys & Girls Republic in Manhattan.

She was strutting around, wearing her championship t-shirt proudly; she'd earned MVP honors after scoring in every game in the four-team round-robin tournament last Tuesday.

"I love rugby," she told anybody who would listen. "It's soooo much fun."

Arnold Chavis, now a Penn State sophomore and player for the school's DI College Rugby Team has an incredible story of how rugby helped him get out of the Bronx projects, into college and into the prestigious Sharks Academy of Rugby in South Africa, which he is raising money  to attend again this summer.

Arnold's story was recently featured in the NY Daily News, along with a personal letter asking for support.

View the story and letter here: Arnold_Chavis_article.pdf

On a picture perfect fall weekend, Met New York teams Old Blue, Bayonne and North Jersey swept to victory in all three Northeast Rugby Union's mens regional finals. 

NRU decided for the first time in 2009 to hold all its Mens Adult finals (in Divisions 1, 2 and 3) in the same location.  Met New York offered to host using new state of the art rugby-dedicated pitches on Randall's Island.  Teams converged from as far away as Buffalo, Monmouth NJ and Boston for the chance to go forward to USA Rugby's nationals.  In the first of Sunday's finals, Division 3's winner in Met New York North Jersey prevailed over New York State's champion Buffalo by 44 to 8.  In Division 2, Met New York's Bayonne beat New England's champion Middlesex by 28 to 14.  In a typically hotly contested Division 1 final, New York's Old Blue beat New England's Mystic by 33 to 15.

Congratulations to the New York Rugby Women who won the inaugural Women's Premier League title over the Berkley All Blues in San Francisco November 6-8th.

Rugby Magazine article by J. Finlan can be read in full after the jump or viewed by clicking here.

Washington, D.C. – New York City rugby coach and former USA national team player Lisa Lake has been named a Coach of the Year as the third-place winner of the national Play it Forward contest. Sponsored by Up2Us, the leading national coalition of youth sports organizations, and Youth Noise, a social networking website for young people, the Play it Forward contest invited current and former youth athletes to nominate coaches who have had an effect on their lives. Entries were posted at: http://www.youthnoise.com/playcity/playitforward and winners were voted on and selected online.

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