Utah State men’s and women’s rugby headed to largest rugby tournament in the nation

This next week will be a big one for Utah State women’s and men’s lacrosse team as they travel to Las Vegas for the Las Vegas Invitational (the largest rugby tournament in America) on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

The Men’s team will be playing in the College Rugby Championship qualifier in sevens, against a few of there 15’s foes — Colorado, Utah Valley and UNLV. The men’s team will start off in Pool G against Grand Canyon University, New England College and Colorado State-Pueblo with only one team per pool moving on, plus one second place team.

“GCU has some athletes, as does Utah State,” says rugby reporter Alex Goff from goffrugbyreport.com, “but we’re going to go with New England College. They take 7s a bit more seriously.”

The women’s team will also be representing Utah State at the LVI. They will be sending two teams Utah State 1 and Utah State 2. They too will also face some big rivals from the 15s side —  the biggest being league champions Montana State and in-state rival Utah Valley University. Although those games matches are not guaranteed, they would face each other in the knockout stages.

Link to women’s schedule and results:

https://www.usasevens.com/las-vegas/2017-womens-college-7s/

Link to men’s schedule and results:

https://www.usasevens.com/las-vegas/2017-crc-7s/