Welcome to Rugby!
This is a wonderful sport as most players find out, that is played in around 130 countries with youth rugby rapidly growing in the USA.
Plano Rugby Club. The Plano Youth Rugby Club was established in 2000 under the auspices of PSA, originally catering to boys in grades 11 and 12, in order to compete in the Texas High Schools rugby league. In 2005, we expanded the PSA program to start at age 9 and up and fielded teams in these younger age groups. We take players from all areas, and in 2011expanded the program further to include non-contact co-ed rugby for ages 7 & 8 and are also offering high school girls rugby to compete in the newly formed Texas Girls High School rugby league.
Spring rugby pre-season basic skills sessions. The PSA youth rugby season is held in the spring from February through April. For the benefit of players new to rugby and for those to whom rugby is somewhat of an unknown, we conduct some free "no-obligation" pre-season sessions starting in December to expose both parents and kids to rugby basics. These sessions are conducted by experienced USA Rugby certified coaches and start with non-contact games and drills that focus on ball handling as this is very much a major part of rugby. We try to make these sessions as much fun as possible as well as giving new players a taste for the game. We then progress to controlled contact techniques and other aspects of the game such as line-out play, scrums, rucks, etc.
These "no obligation" sessions are designed to encourage parents and players alike to come on out for a couple of sessions and check out rugby and for us to explain and answer questions about the game and our program.
The weekly indoor preseason practices from 7:00 - 8:30pm at the Plano Senior High School indoor sports faciltiy and January Sunday afternoon outdoor pratices from 3:30 - 5:00 pm at Schimelpfenig school, Maumelle Av. Plano are:
Wed, Jan 4th,
Sun, Jan 8th,
Mon Jan 9th,
Thurs, Jan 12th,
Sun, Jan 15th,
Tues, Jan 17th,
Fri, Jan 20th,
Sun Jan 22nd,
Wed Jan 25th
Sun, Jan 29th
Mon Jan 30th
Thurs, Feb 2nd
Tues Feb 7th,
Fri Feb 10th.
Matches & Practices. Practices and matches take place at a Plano Parks and Recs. assigned field. In the past few seasons this has been at High Point Park in Plano and we expect that we will be assigned this field again this spring.
Regular season practices are on Tuesdays and Thursdays, at 6:00 PM for ages 7 - 14 and 7:15 for the ages 15 and above
Matches take place on Saturday mornings, but some matches will be "away" at different locations. Match schedules will be published later in January.
Rugby Clubs with players in the younger age groups, ages 7 - 14, while limited in the DFW area, are expanding and we play matches with cross town opponents from Keller, Richardson, and north Dallas. There are some other programs in the area that are in the process of starting youth rugby. To give our players variety of matches, we will also make a one day trip to Houston as well as a one day trip to College Station. The dates of these one day trips will be published by January along with the normal match schedules.
League Structure: Parents new to PSA rugby may expect the same league structures as other PSA sports with multiple teams and coaches. We’re not there yet! We’re still a small but growing program and don’t have the player numbers yet to field multiple teams per age group and play intra-league. To date we have fielded one to two teams per age bracket and our matches are against other clubs. These are Under 19, Under 17, Under 15, Under 13, Under 11 and Under 9s non-contact. The date for determining the age cut off for the spring 2012 season is as of Sept 1st, 2011. For example, if a player is 9 or 10 prior to Sept 1st, 2011; they are placed in the Under 11 team. Players can play up if they choose and their parents agree. If we get sufficient numbers we will expand to field multiple teams per age group as appropriate. So recruiting new players is key to this growth.
Registration:
For registration and other information please check the Spring Information tab.
Rugby Videos clips:
Contact information:
PSA Rugby Director: Nick Marketos, 214-726-9190