The MetNY All-star coaching staff announces tryouts for their upcoming match against Crawshays Welsh Rugby Football Club on May 26, 2011.
Please join us on Thursday, May 12, 2011 @ Field 75 on Ward's Island and show your rugby skills to the coaching staff.
The tryout process will consist of 4 periods of 20-minutes game time, allowing the coaches to make an assesment of each player's abilities.
Based on demonstrated ability of players attending the tryout session, the coaching staff will determine the competitive team that will face the Crawshays side on May 26th at 6:00 PM.
The coaching staff will evaluate strength, speed, stamina, ball skills, rucking technique, scrummaging and obviously team work.
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The MetNY U19 Club and High School 2011 has official gotten on the way! Union (U19 Club D1) and Delbarton HS (HS D2) got the spring season started. Union played Doylestown who is top competitor in the EPRU (Eastern PA Rugby Union). Delbarton traveled further to VA to participate in a high school tournament.Both events were non-league events but it won’t be long until the league matches are upon us and the rivalries resume!
Tryouts: Sunday, March 27th, 10am - 1pm: Randall's Island, Field 73 Sunday, April 3rd, 11am - 2pm: Mott Haven High School, Bronx (730 Concord Village West, Bronx, NY 10451) - the field is behind the school! (there will be no restrooms or changing facilities available)
Public Transit Directions: Take the 2 or the 4/5 to 149th Street, Grand Concourse. You will be on one of two levels. Aim to exit onto 149th St. but mostly just get out of the station. Once you exit, walk North on Grand Concourse (the large avenue) on the East (right) side of the street. If you hit 148th, turn around and you'll be facing North. You will past the Post Office on your right and a few blocks later the Cardinal School. Here's where it get's a little improv. Turn right after the school into an alley. You should be able to see the fields sunken in front of you. Walk downhill and down a driveway, then follow the steps onto the terrace which allows you access to the steps down to the field.
Union County Rugby Football Club (UCRFC) of Cranford New Jersey is seeking a new head coach for its Men’s Club for the spring season of 2011.
UCRFC is a Division 2 men’s club with two sides and has over 350 active players in our youth (flag), middle school and high school programs. The club has a Board of Trustee’s, which performs the day to day operations of the club and fund raising for the program.
UCRFC has over twelve coaches assisting with the high school boys and girls programs and would assist any new head coach, if requested. Currently the men’s team has two player coaches who want to concentrate on playing. If interested please contact Victor Vinegra Club President, at work 908-276-2715 ext 12.
On Sunday November 21, 2010, Met NY clinched NRU's D2 and D3 Championships. Met NY was shut out of Sunday's D1 final, in which Mystic River beat Boston Irish Wolfhounds in overtime. On Saturday, Mystic edged New York, and Boston Irish Wolfhounds beat Long Island. But Met NY's Village Lions and Rockaway won out over their rivals from near and far in D2 and D3 respectively. Congratulations all round.
Met NY Rugby concluded its fall 2010 season last weekend. Excellent, hard fought matches produced winners in all three men’s divisions.
In Division 1, Long Island won, followed by New York, Monmouth and Morris. All four teams proceed to crossover matches against NERFU Division 1 teams this Saturday, November 13. Long Island hosts New Haven, New York hosts White Plains, Monmouth travels to play Boston Irish Wolfhounds, and Morris travels to take on Mystic River.
In Division 2, Lansdowne came to last Saturday's match undefeated in their regular season, but fell to the Village Lions who therefore won first place in D2. Met NY has ruled Lansdowne ineligible for NRU playoffs this year because of disputes over Lansdowne's compliance with USA Rugby eligiblity rules for non-green card holders. As a result, the Village Lions and the next three teams according to the season's reported match results, namely North Jersey, Connecticut Yankees and Danbury, will play in NRU's crossover matches. This weekend, Village Lions host Newport, NoJo hosts Boston Irish, CT Yankees travel to Hartford, and Danbury travels to take on Middlesex.
In Division 3, Rockaway bested Brooklyn last weekend, winning the right to a bye and a place in NRU playoffs on Randall's Island on November 20 and 21. Brooklyn travels this weekend for a crossover match vs MIT.
Good luck to all our Met NY teams in the upcoming crossovers and playoffs. Please come support them on Randall's Island on November 20 and 21. Thanks to our Met NY Host Commitee, details including maps, and a Saturday night social are on www.nruplayoffs.org. Schedules and hotel recommmdation information will be announced soon.
Saturday November 6 promises to be a significant day in Met NY rugby. In Mens D1, Morris take on Long Island, currently sitting in first place. And Monmouth and New York Rugby are battling for hosting privileges vs NERFU next weekend.
But all the drama is in D2, where Village Lions face Lansdowne for D2 domination. Lansdowne are unbeaten this year, but qualification and playoff eligibility questions swirled around them this last week. One thing is clear, however: if Lansdowne put rules interpretation behind them and beat the Village Lions today, noone can take that victory away from them. Noon at Randall's Island. D3 offers a great match too, with Brooklyn v. Rockaway in what promises to be a great matchup.
For Colleges, Columbia host the wildcard weekend for the Ivy League at Bakers Field. For Mens D1 colleges, it's the last big weekend, with Kings Point at Fordham, and Stony Brook Seawolves at Southern Connecticut. But in mens adult rugby, tension is growing for the playoff finals for the whole Northeast in D1, D2 and D3. Those playoffs are just two weeks away, also on Randall's Island.
With the creation of the CPL (College Premier League), USA Rugby designated several local unions as “automatic qualifier” regions. As MetNY was selected to be such a union, the winner of the Met NY’ division 1 will have an automatic bid to compete in the college rugby national championship tournament.In years past, the Met NY’s divisional winner had to go through the NY State Rugby union and the ever dangerous New England Rugby Union before making it into the college championship tournament.With such a great opportunity on the line, the Met NY D1 playoff race could not be more exciting.
Photographs are now available from Emirates Airline USA Rugby All-Star 7s, which Met New York Rugby successfully hosted on Randall's Island on August 28-29. Photos, courtesy of Jess Bunshaft, are at brownhoundphotos.com.
The two day event featured the top men's and women's 7s players flown in from around the country. Opening ceremonies on Satuday kicked off with the national anthem sung phenomenally by professional opera singer and rugby player Stephen Gaertner. Tickets sold out for the VIP area, which featured premium seating, catered food and unlimted imported beers and wines. Hundreds of spectators enjoyed the beer garden and grilled food concession, open throughout the weekend, and product giveaways and merchandise sales from USA 7s. The event was broadcast with live commentary, now archived through UStream.
