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
WE THINK AHEAD, SO YOU STAY AHEAD
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 TAG rugby
Go here for Tackle intro Go back to Why Rugby
Youth rugby in Virginia is played under two distinct and separate sets of rules: touch rugby and tackle rugby.
In VA we use the grade system so all grades PreK up to 4th will play COED Tag rugby. These boys and girls enjoy learning the same values, traditions, and skills without the stress of any physical contact
Note: a younger player who is still in Grade 3 MAY play up to the 5/6th Grade tackle teams (u13), with the express permission of a parent/guardian, and the determination of the head coach that the player is ready physically and mentally to play at this level.
Youth TAG (non-contact) Rugby intro
All TAG/touch rugby teams are coed. Again, these teams are broken down as follows:
- PreK/K (u7)
- Grade 1 & 2 (u9)
- Grade 3 & 4 (u11)
Children play 2-hand touch “7s”rugby (7 players per team on the field). The 2-hand touch game is mostly the only difference from the standard game. All the other rules apply, with some modifications to ensure the safety of the children. Rugby VA continually reviews the rules and modifies where needed.
While not a full-contact sport, contact between players will occur in order to make a tag (the equivalent of a "tackle" in contact rugby). Players will be taught how to bind in rucks and mauls, and will be instructed how to safely firstly form non-contested scrums, and later in the season if the teams are skilled enough; contested scrums.
All of this will be coached fully in practices, and will be managed closely by coaches and referees during matches. The "contact" aspects of touch rugby are designed as stepping stones toward full-contact tackle rugby.
View the full laws here.
