Practices start Monday, March 6, and run 3:30-4:30 pm every Monday and Friday at Prospect Hill School. Games: April 2: home v LIC April 23: home v LIC May 7: home v Rye June 4: away v Manhattan (end of season)
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Sign up! Registration open for Pelham Youth Rugby’s fall program
Players can register now for Pelham Youth Rugby’s fall program. The program is run through Pelham Recreation and offers playing opportunities for second graders right up through the Pelham Memorial High School varsity team. Elementary players will be eligible for Sunday flag tournaments at Chelsea Waterside Park. All middle school tackle players (tackle begins in fifth grade)…
Coach Persanis and Tom Kleinberger receive Pelham’s Marshall Award for volunteer service
Coach Matt Persanis and Tom Kleinberger, co-founders of Pelham Youth Rugby, will be given the Pelham Recreation Commission’s annual Dr. John L. Marshall Award for volunteer service. The award will be presented June 8 at 7 pm at the Recreation Commission meeting in the Daronco Townhouse. Coach Persanis would love it if as many of the kids as possible could be…
Sign up! Registration open for Pelham Youth Rugby’s spring program
Players can register now for Pelham Youth Rugby’s spring program. The program is run through Pelham Recreation and offers playing opportunities for second graders right up through high school. Pelham Rugby is open to kids from towns outside of Pelham and is one of the very few youth rugby programs in our region. Elementary players will be…
Ruggers Edge to talk about college playing opportunities Oct. 29 at Daronco Town House
Pelham Rugby has the Ruggers Edge coming to Pelham to do a Pelham-only presentation about the opportunities for rugby players in college. How to get in, how to use rugby to help you get in, get scholarships and grants. When: Oct 29, 7:30 pm Where: Daronco Town House, 5th Avenue, Pelham Why: To learn how rugby can…
Sign up! Registration open for Pelham Youth Rugby’s fall program
Kids can register now for Pelham Youth Rugby’s fall program, with practices set to start Sept. 10. The program is run through Pelham Recreation and offers playing opportunities for second graders right through high school. Pelham Rugby is open to kids from towns outside of Pelham and is one of the very few youth rugby…
Middle school flag team wins Bowl in NYC Cup; elementary team goes to final; U12s, U16s finish league champs
The Pelham middle school flag rugby team captured the Bowl trophy Saturday at the NYC Rugby Cup, the biggest flag rugby tournament in the country. The elementary flag team lost in the Bowl final. There were over 60 teams at the NYC Cup, so all the more impressive Pelham’s two reached the finals. The middle school…
Coach Toby, now playing for London Welsh, talks pro rugby and the future for the sport in U.S.
Editor’s note: The story of how PelhamRugby.com got this story is as good a demonstration as any that Toby L’Estrange is a great guy, exceptional gentleman and true supporter of Pelham Youth Rugby. Toby coached Pelham’s kids a couple of years ago, from little flaggers to big tacklers, while playing on NYAC’s team. His play…