Every season, our rookie coordinator assigns each new player a "vet buddy" - a player who's been on the team for a few seasons who's supposed to check in with her rookie, answer any questions, and generally try to make sure the rookie is having a good time and wants to come back ( Read more... )

The girl who won this? My teammate.

Yes, I will probably be drinking beer out of a giant golden high heel to help her celebrate this weekend.

Oh friends, where do I even start to tell you about London? It was a completely different traveling experience than I've ever had - I usually travel alone or with only one or two people, so going with twenty teammates was quite the adventure. Then consider that the focus of this trip was less London: The Historical City and more London: The Rugby ( Read more... )

Earlier today, absorbed in a conversation about whether soccer player Natasha Kai is My Type (i.e. a big girl), I looked up her player bio to figure out how much she weighed - and was flabbergasted to find nothing there.

I am very used to the USA Rugby Women's National Team player roster, which lists the height AND weight of each player. But, ( Read more... )

Tonight, at rugby practice, there was only one real hooker so I got to scrum down at hooker for most of practice. (Yes, "hooker" is a rugby position). For that not actually being my position at all, I got some very decent hits in - AND when I got home my shoulders were both covered in bruisy purple and red marks often called "scrum hickeys ( Read more... )

If you are feeling grumpy, I present the following de-grumpifying exhibits featuring an ORSU rugby player who makes some amazing faces:

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And, as a bonus:

THIGHS!

As many of you know, I've been struggling a lot lately with my rugby/life balance - both in general and in particular now that my team is a part of a new higher-level league ( Read more... )

I talk a lot about how, on a rugby team, no one really cares about whether you're gay or straight (or neither, or both, or you know, whatever). Not just that they love you either way - for most people, they really just don't care.* Today I was talking to two of my teammates, who told me the following story which proved that true ( Read more... )

1) I woke up late, but managed to get out of the house both on time AND without forgetting anything ( Read more... )