UNCG WRFC supports St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital

On Monday, September 28th the UNCG Women's Rugby team decided that instead of gearing up for practice, they would gear up for a Team Dinner at Chili's Bar & Grille. Chili's has a partnership with St. Jude's Children's Hospital and one day a year, the restaurant donates 100% of their profits to the hospital. So far, Chili's has raised over 25 million dollars for the St. Jude's, and has provided children and their families with better therapies, more support, and better research opportunities.

Pediatric Cancer is devastating, and there's nowhere near enough funding from the government. Many grassroots efforts and amazing partnerships such as Chilis/St. Jude's provide a lot of of the funding for research for cures. Here is an alarming statistic: "There are 15 children diagnosed with cancer for every 1 child diagnosed with pediatric AIDS. Yet, the US invests approximately $595,000 for research per victim of pediatric AIDS, and only $20,000 for each victim of pediatric cancer." Those are scary numbers!!

The team with their full bellies:

This isn't the first time the team has come together to support this worthy cause. Over the last five years, the team has made it out to 4 St. Jude's nights at Chilis!

The team has a lot more planned in the way of volunteering and philanthropy, so stay tuned!!

Website Overhaul

Hey Ladies - I am in the process of updating the website, and I would love your feedback. I can't do any fancy flash stuff on the site, but I can do a lot of other things, so let me know what you think we need, don't need and any other changes you want to see! Thanks - Em

UNCG-WRFC official site

Women's Premiere League Rugby

This year marks the beginning of Premiere Rugby for women in the United States! There are 8 teams participating in this league; in the Red Conference are the Berkeley All-Blues, The Twin City Amazons, Minnesota Valkyries and the Oregon Sports Union. In the Blue Conference are Beantown (Boston), New York, Keystone (PA) and the Washington Furies (DC - we have seen them play! Remember when we went to NCSU and watched the Women's game?). Hopefully some of these games will get some coverage in the media, besides just press releases from USA Rugby, but its awesome to see Women's Rugby being played at such a high level!

I added a link to the Women's Premiere League Rugby blog on the blog navigation over on the left hand side.