The Pelham Youth Rugby U15 team continued its unbeaten streak, defeating a very big, very physical Union County Club during a home match at Glover Field on Sunday. The game looked tough before kick off, with two players nursing sore knees and one having been sick all weekend. But all three stood up and were…
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Pelham U15 team beats Manhattan on strong second half performance; U13s play ‘best game ever’
Pelham Youth Rugby’s U15 team defeated Manhattan Sunday with a strong second half performance that saw visiting Pelham score five unanswered tries in the second half to produce an 8-3 win. The game was played under a beautiful spring sky on Pier 5 in Brooklyn with an amazing view of downtown Manhattan. Pelham had key…
Pelham U15 tackle team continues winning ways in first game of spring versus Rockaway; U13s come up short
Pelham Youth Rugby’s U15 team began the spring tackle season as they ended the fall competition–by winning. Pelham, reigning champions of the Metro NY Youth Rugby League, defeated Rockaway 5 tries to 1 in a home game at Ingalls Field. The U15s demonstrated the surging runs, smooth passing game and tough tackling that has been…
Pelham Rugby and Play Rugby USA return to elementary schools for popular gym class sessions
Pelham Rugby, working with Play Rugby USA, is again running its popular flag rugby seminars during Pelham elementary school gym classes. Player and coach Anthony Lenos was at Colonial School on Feb. 28 and March 1 to take students through fun games and drills. Several kids in the Pelham Youth Rugby program first learned about…
Tackle practices start Monday, March 11 at Prospect; are you ready for your fitness test?
The first practice of the spring season will be Monday, March 11 at 5 pm at Prospect Hill Elementary School. The March 8 session was snowed out. Players will undergo a fitness test that will measure number of push-ups in a minute, number of squat thrusts in a minute and time on the 40-meter dash. Practices…
Sign up now! Registration opens for Pelham’s spring flag and tackle rugby programs
Register now for the spring flag and tackle programs in Pelham. Click this link for the form you need to fill out, and send it back right away to Pelham Recreation. Tackle practices start on March 9 and flag practices on April 1. Pelham Rugby is open to kids from towns outside of Pelham and…
USA Rugby website offers great list of matches on TV, including Six Nations
USA Rugby published a great TV schedule listing all the upcoming matches that will be on channels you probably get at home. The top event during the next two months is the Six Nations, a winter tournament featuring Europe’s top rugby nations. As Coach Persanis noted, “Six Nations is a very old, very close competition. The…
Coach Toby’s decision to play for the USA profiled by Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia’s largest newspaper, this week wrote a story about Pelham Coach Toby L’Estrange’s decision to play for the U.S. national rugby team. That rules him out for the Australian team, called the Wallabies, and is a pretty big deal Down Under. Congratulations to Toby on coverage in the paper that is…
Pelham Youth Rugby enrolls players in two classes of Parisi Speed School to boost performance, confidence
Pelham Youth Rugby has enrolled two full classes of players in Parisi Speed School at Equalize Fitness in Yonkers. The Pelham players started classes before the holidays and will continue into the middle of March. Parisi is a training program designed by All-American track star Bill Parisi to build athletic performance and self confidence. Ten players…
Spring tackle schedule is released; Save the date for June 22 Philadelphia trip
The spring tackle schedule has been released and is now on the website in the column on the right. Save the date: June 22. The club will take another trip down to Philadelphia to play a match and stay overnight. More details will be announced.