The Tufts Rugby Club exists to provide students with an opportunity to learn an exciting, physical, fast-paced, and unique game. We encourage anyone with an athletic background to give rugby a try. EXPERIENCE IS NOT NECESSARY. Come on out and learn the game. We'll teach you.

We are part of the New England Rubgy Football Union (NERFU). We play teams around the New England area. Our fall season consists of 6 games. Home games are played at the back field near Cousens gym. Games usually take place on Saturday mornings. Practices are held Monday through Friday at the field in back of South Hall. A typical practice runs from 4:30 to 6:30pm. In order to play in the games on Saturday, you are required to attend at least three practices.

"Rugby is not for prissy girls. You learn to blow your nose without a kleenex and count each bruise with pride. Your field might resemble a pig wallow one week or a slab of concrete the next. It may take your parents a LONG time to adjust. Your body can feel like you've been in a minor car accident every weekend and you'll learn the true meaning of a bad hair day. You will cry. You will laugh. You will sweat. You will freeze. If you want to be good you will work harder than you ever thought you could and you will do it with a teamful of other women with potentially synchronized menstrual cycles. Don't let ANYONE ever tell you you're not an athlete. You are the truest kind - you play for the sheer love of it. You will get stronger, faster, fitter and braver. You will make unlikely and wonderful friends. You will learn more every time you play - and some of that will even be about the game..." -- Anonymous Beantown Women's Rugby Team Player

If you have any questions concerning the team, please feel free to email the captain (Steph Walt) or the coach (Kara Yimoyines).

Webmaster: Kara Yimoyines