Matt Persanis, director of rugby for Pelham Youth Rugby, has been named co-head coach of the NYAC Rugby team, one of the elite mens clubs in the country and national champions in 2005, 2008, 2010 and 2012. The NYAC team is a founding member of the Super League and the Elite Cup. Persanis, who founded…
Scarsdale native Nick Civetta, who played for the NYAC rugby team, is moving to Italy on a pro contract with Lazio, and the Journal News has a profile of the 23 year old. Nick will talk to Pelham Youth Rugby players at the Daronco Town House at 7 pm on Tuesday, July 30. The Notre Dame engineering…
Pelham Youth Rugby took its annual trip to Philadelphia this past weekend to play the Pennsylvania All-Stars and to stay overnight for Pelham’s annual awards banquet. Pelham’s U13 team lost the first match to a gigantic Pennsylvania team. This was followed by a dramatic win by the U15s, who defeated the Pennsylvania U15 All-Stars…
Pelham hosted Nerbirth Rugby Club, one of the better clubs in Pennsylvania, on Saturday at Franklin Field. The U13 team continued their recent run of improving play. In fact, they led 21-14 at halftime. Strong play by Adam Razick, Woods Johnson, James Bristow, Sofia Imperato, Quinn Jenkins and Conner Evans saw Pelham put in three…
Although Pelham Youth Rugby has two non-league games to go, the official Metro NY U13 and U15 League season has ended. Both Pelham teams finished on a high note. Coming into the last game of the year and facing the best team in the division is not always what you want, especially if you have been…
It’s not often a team representing a town beats a national team. It happened last Thursday, when the Pelham Youth Rugby U15 team faced off against the national U15 side of Bermuda on Randall’s Island. The Atlantic Challenge Cup victory also received coverage in the Journal News and Rugby Wrap Up. Bermuda was looking for a…
The Pelham Youth Rugby U13 team looked the best they have all season this Sunday against a combined Long Island/Fairfield team. “I really do think if we could have played either Long Island or Fairfield individually we would have won one if not both, but it wasn’t to be,” said Director of Rugby Matt Persanis.…
Here are the kids of Pelham Youth Rugby. The players from the elementary, U13 and U15 teams posed together in uniform last week between the elementary and middle school practices. Did you know 85 kids registered for the program this year? We just keep on growing.
The split personality of Pelham Rugby continued Sunday during two matches played on the Iona College field. The U13 team faced a very strong Lycee Francais and did not fair well. The team continues to be plagued by the same mistakes, including not committing to the tackle, not spreading out and not rucking. Unfortunately, the…
The Pelham Rugby U15 team started slowly Sunday, settling for a 1-0 lead at the half against Ridgewood. The opposition perhaps sensed some cockiness from the undefeated Pelham team, playing an aggressive first half and going toe-to-toe with Pelham’s best. Pelham also made mistakes in the period: lining up wrong, rushing the play, making bad…
