A Parent’s Tale: Let The Kid Play
Marcos was good at football. Not great. Not some natural talent, but good. He was a helluva lot better than I was.
Marcos got a late start in football. We put Marcos in soccer for two years when he was ten and eleven. Soccer was “safer” than football, or so we’ve been told. Lucy even coached the team. Still, soccer bored Marcos to tears. By his last game, he was wandering around listless on the field debating life.
Continue reading “Let the Kid Play”Player registration for the 2022 season is now open, and we’ve tried to make it super easy for y’all. Check out this link for the 3-step process.
Last year’s Rock varsity Outside Half Thomas Butterworth was a try scorer and key figure over the weekend as Wayne State defeated Slippery Rock to qualify for Nationals.
Continue reading “11/20 Alumni Watch – Wayne State Going to Nationals”
Even more Rock alumni in action this weekend – Justin Tucker, Stephen Dudley, Robert Reap and Matthew Lester all played in the UNT vs TXST game. Congratulations to TXST for the win.
Continue reading “11/20 Alumni Watch – UNT vs TXST”
Several current and former Rock Rugby players showed up at Fritz Park in Hutto this afternoon to cheer on some familiar faces as Justin Hale’s “Other Rugby Club” took on Fort Hood in a league clash.
Continue reading “11/20 Alumni Watch – the Outsiders”Players – tonight we ran some more advanced passing drills designed to practice the “draw and pass”. The idea is to move the ball quickly to the edge of (or gap in) the defense, commit the last defender and put the extra player into space.
Continue reading “The Art of the Draw”
Rock Rugby Alumni Acacia Atwater, Jasmine Skaggs, and Gracie Sadler grinding it out on the field with the Round Rock Rage today in Houston.
And yes, we did notice the Rock Rugby shorts. Never Give Up & Never Give In, Ladies!
It is an exciting time to be part of the fastest-growing sport in the United States! More and more universities and colleges see the value in providing a full student-athlete experience with varsity rugby or club teams – and increasingly these programs offer scholarship funding.
Continue reading “College Rugby – a Primer”
Rock Rugby Alumni faced off tonight in San Marcos with the Texas State Bobcats beating the Aggies 47-12.
Continue reading “11/5 Alumni Watch – Texas State vs Texas A&M”