Tag Archives: Women’s Rugby

The 2017-18 HSBC Sevens Series kicks off this weekend in Dubai with the women starting a day earlier than the men. Canada finished 3rd overall on last year’s circuit, just two points behind Olympic Champions Australia. They’ll be looking to start their season on a high with the Rugby World …

The USA will send an experienced team to participate in the 2017 Dubai Sevens. It’s the first stop on the new HSBC Sevens Series which takes on added importance with the Rugby World Cup Sevens set to take place at San Francisco’s AT&T Park in July. After finishing 6th overall …

Mexico have won the 2017 Women’s Rugby Americas North Sevens. The home victory means that Mexico has qualified for the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens. This marks an historic first ever appearance at the event. It will be played in 2018 in San Francisco, California. Mexico did so by defeating Trinidad …

England completed a 3-0 series sweep of Canada as they romped to a 69-19 victory at Twickenham on Saturday afternoon. The 11-try effort makes it a combined 197 points for while conceding 36 across the three games played in eight days. It was the return of new stars Jess Breach …

Canada will have one more crack at England when the two sides bring their three-match series to a close on Saturday. England have been the dominant side so far, recording two one-sided results over a very inexperienced Canadian side. The game will be the second part of a double-header at …

Colombia’s Women secured Gold Medals at the Juegos Bolivarianos (Bolivarian Games) at home in Santa Marta. They did so by defeating Paraguay in the final. Peru finished third to claim Bronze. The three-day event begun with Colombia sending a warning to the opposition. In the opening match of the Juegos …

The 2017 RAN 7’s is to be a two-day event. It will take place on November 25-26. involved are to be ten men’s teams and seven women’s teams. The ten competing teams in the men’s division are: Barbados, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico …

The score was different but the result the same as England took a second decisive win over Canada in five days at The Stoop on Tuesday. Two tries each for Rachael Burford and Ellie Kildunne and eight in all made the final score 49-12. Single scores came from Heather Kerr, …

Canada face a foreboding challenge on Tuesday when they face England in the second of three tests between the two in the span of eight days. The first match was a brutal 79-5 drubbing in favor of the hosts at Allianz Park. The second takes place at The Stoop as …

Up and Under is a weekly feature on Americas Rugby News which reviews the best and worst from games involving the Americas teams over the previous week.   UP Argentina Daniel Hourcade will be keeping his job. Under immense pressure heading into November, the Head Coach of Los Pumas got …