University of Miami Rugby Football Club

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Full name	The University of Miami Rugby Football Club
Union	[[USA Rugby South ; Florida Rugby Football Union]]
Nickname(s)	The Hurricanes
Ground(s)	University of Miami Intramural Fields [1]
Coach(es)	Frank Williams
Captain(s)	Michael Scanlon
League(s)	USA Rugby South Collegiate Div. 2
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The University of Miami Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club in Miami, Florida. According to rankings in Rugby Magazine, Miami list’s amongst the top twenty five clubs in the United States for Division 2. The Club was founded in 1989 under the supervision of still coach Frank Williams of the Miami Rugby Club for students of the University of Miami. The University of Miami Rugby team competes in the USA Rugby South against clubs from Florida, as well as touring sides from other states and has had trips to the Bahamas as well as other island nations in the Caribbean.

The Hurricanes often field at least one or two international players per season but rely heavily on home grown talent, many of whom did not compete in the sport of rugby prior to college. Despite this, the program regularly produces Collegiate Select Side players for the Florida Rugby Union as well as USA Rugby South and occasionally the United States national rugby union team known as the Eagles. Several players have played for professional clubs on a part time basis including San Francisco Golden Gate Rugby Football Club, the Chicago Lions, and the Boston Irish Wolfhounds. The team has recently competed in a national tournament finishing second only to Louisiana State University of the collegiate premier league.

The Recent Squad (2010 Hurricane Rugby Team) was honored as the greatest team in the 21 year history at the University of Miami surpassing the legendary 1995 Hurricane rugby team in scoring (30.25 points per game in the regular season), Defense (6.8 points per game allowed in regular season) and point differential (+23.45 points per game).

2010 Schedule and Results

Sept 4th: vs Boca Mens & FIU (Key Biscayne) (Win, 50-0 in round robin)
Sept 11th: vs FAU (Key Biscayne) (W, 39-5)
Sept 18th: @ Palm Beach Mens (W, 12-7)
Oct 2nd: @ USF (L, 17-12)
Oct 16th: Ave Marie (in Tavares, FL for All Florida Day) (W, 78-0)
Oct 30th: vs FIU (W, 62-3)
Nov 6th: @ FAU (W, 15-13)
Nov 12-14th:

Battleship Tournament 2010 Mobile, Alabama

UM v Troy 10 AM (W, 49-5)
UM v Spring Hill 1 PM (W, 17-5)
Semifinals: UM v UNO 9 AM (W, 22-5)
Finals: UM v LSU 12 PM (L, 15-7)
UM takes 2nd place at Battleship Tournament 2010

Nov 20th: Florida Cup Championship (Gainesville, FL)
Nov 20th: UM @ UF 4 PM (L)

Club Honors

Florida Rugby Union Florida Cup Semi-Finalists: 2010
USA Rugby Battleship Tournament Runner-up: 2010
Florida Rugby Union Florida Cup Semi-finalists: 2008
Florida Rugby Union Florida Cup Runner-up: 1995

Notable Current and Former Players

Michael Scanlon (Rugby)

Current Captain and Former USA Rugby Florida Under-20 and Collegiate select side member. Founder of Lewis University Rugby and has played part time for the Southside Irish Rugby Club in USA Rugby Division 1.