Support Washington DC's new professional rugby team!
Old Glory is a professional rugby club based in Washington DC. The Club officially joined the Major League Rugby in November 2018 and will begin league play in MLR's 2020 season. The Club will play a series of exhibition games throughout the first half of 2019. As a recent addition to the fabric of the Nation's Capital and the entire Mid-Atlantic community, Old Glory DC's vision is to grow the sport of rugby in our region by 50% by 2023.
The Club is owned by Paul Sheehy and Chris Dunlavey. For more info please visit www.oldglorydc.com
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INDIGO IT is a certified women-owned small business (wosb) and a disadvantaged minority business enterprise (dmbe). In 2014, indigo it was named the small business administration’s prime contractor of the year.Shane van Wyngaardt, co-founder of INDIGO IT, has been a generous supporter of our Club since the beginning, we appreciate you sticking with us all these years!
For more info please visit www.indigoit.com/
Cuisine Solutions sponsors Great Falls/McLean rugby!
We are very lucky to have Stan Vilgrain, CEO of Cuisine Solutions, an avid rugby player and enthusiast, as a major sponsor of our club. We appreciate your generosity!
Recognized by the world’s top chefs, Cuisine Solutions is the authority on sous vide—the innovative slow-cooking technique that we pioneered, perfected and popularized.
For more info about Cuisine Solutions and sous-vide, please visit them here.
Basic intro to playing TACKLE rugby
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Youth rugby in Virginia is played under two distinct and separate sets of rules for touch rugby and tackle rugby.
In VA we use the grade system so all players from grades 5 though 12 will play tackle rugby. Boys and girls play separately at this level. See below how the teams are broken down.
Our USA Rugby certified coaches carefully and safely manage the transition from non-contact to contact, and further nurture and develop our kids as they progress.
Youth Tackle Rugby intro
All Tackle rugby teams are either all boys or all girls. Again, these teams are broken down as follows:
- Grade 5 & 6 (u13)
- Grade 7 & 8 (u15)
- Grade 9 - 12 (High School)
With rugby being offered year-round (at least with our club and some neighboring clubs), we are constantly monitoring the skill level of our kids, who join our club at any time throughout the year. Obviously there will quite often be a new kids joining tackle without any contact experience.
No problem, we will take him or her aside and work with him individually or with other inexperienced kids.
Safety is paramount to our programs. If a kid gets hurt and we were guilty of not showing him or her the correct technique, or shoving them into a contact situation without sufficient contact training, we are liable. Best case scenario for us is we lose that kid and perhaps other parents/kids who witnessed the incident.
We strive to avoid these situations, we strive to rather SAFELY integrate kids and their families into rugby's strong traditions of respect, fair play, and community – a community that enjoys meeting and socializing with other families and whose kids look forward to having fun with their friends.
