President Matt Robinette Matthewrobinette55@gmail.com 757-642-5129
Vice President Ned Kieloch nkieloch@gmail.com 301-221-7494
Secretary Lacy Ames lacy.renee928@gmail.com
Treasurer David Chapman davidc@rugby.org
High Performance Director Stephen Davis sldavis20@gmail.com
USA Congress Representative Meredith McAlister MeredithMcAlister@GMail.com 443-306-5395
Disciplinary Chair Simon Smith sitheref2409@yahoo.com 540-623-0611
Referees (RSV/PSRFR) Representative Jason Wallach wallachj@gmail.com
Good morning. The Capital Women's coaches have pegged Sunday, October 8th for an open camp. Location will be announced later but is likely to be in close proximity to the DC area. We are finding opponents for both our women's selects as well as our women's development team to play on December 2-3rd in Raleigh, as part of a large selects event. It is looking like our opponents will (tentatively as yet unconfirmed) be the Empire Selects and the Allegheny Selects.
Since the AGM and voting of new HP director, is their any updates on the Women's Selects schedule/structure/training/etc.? Any information moving forward would be good to give to possible players as much to time to prepare to attend training.
The men’s select coaches have put out the schedule for the next few months….
OPEN camp will be hosted on October 22nd. There will be two locations; Richmond and DC/Baltimore. Exact location and times to be confirmed soon.
This will be the LAST opportunity for players to try out for either of our teams…Selects and Development. The open tryout is open to all players from any division.
After this open camp, there will be an invite only camp on November 18th to lead us into our December 3rd game against the USA South Panthers In Raleigh. We will have selects and development games on this date, as part of a larger selects event also featuring collegiate all stars. There will be national team selectors, Olympic Development and professional team scouts(to be confirmed) in attendance.
After the December event, our next invite only camp will be on January 13th, in anticipation of our matches against Stars and a second team in DC area.
Finally, the coaches are working on a Selects only match in early March. More details on camp and location/opponent to come as confirmed.
The coaches have expressed their desires to get a large turnout for this open camp, and for individual player participation/availability to be consistent from event to event.
Hey all - As Referees are a key piece to our sport, there's a a L100 Referee Certification planned for after the fall season. Potentially in the DC area the weekend of 11/18. Every club should plan to send someone. More teams, more games, more refs, more rugby. Stay tuned for details. Share this post with your clubs. Tag people on this post who you think should put this on their calendars.
Looking at the referee schedule, there is no assigned ref for Newport News for this weekend. We going to get a ref?
