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Recap of Awards Dinner and NSCRO final rankings

5/8/2014

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   My apologies to everyone for finally getting to this.  A couple of weeks ago we held our annual awards  dinner, a first this year was including the ladies of UT Dallas Women's Rugby Club.  While they did join us last year, they had only played a few matches, but all that changed this year. 

   If you saw the pictures of that awards dinner, you'll see that I am wearing an evening gown, this is because I lost a bet to the ladies and being the man that I am, I paid off my debt and while I don't wear gowns every day.  For that occasion, it was a lot of fun.

    The ladies played 8 matches plus 2 round robin matches at the beginning of the season.

   As I stated the ladies played very well especially against clubs of equal status and ability, surprising though was their play against the more established clubs.  There is a bright future for these ladies and their program.

   The men had another great season, going undefeated for their 3rd season, the only low point was not getting a 3rd championship trophy, but being 2nd isn't too shabby, considering there are more clubs out there that began before us and still haven't brought even a runner up trophy back to their school. 

    We've had a good run and are poised to begin another winning streak with a bunch of new players under the guidance of the returning players.   Many players were nominated for a number of gag awards, but only the best received those awards, those nominated and the winners will remain in the minds of those who were there.

    The serious awards:

Men's Rookie of the Year = Andrew Whiteis  

Women's Rookie of the Year = Amber VanHecke

Men's Most Valuable Forward = Anthony "AJ" Paradowski

Women's Most Valuable Forward = Guadalupe Villanueva

Men's Most Valuable Back = Vince Dutton

Women's Most Valuable Back = Stephanie Marek

Captain's Recognition for the Men - John Bradshaw

Captain's Recognition for the Women - Alyssa Gelman

Men's Most Inspirational - Jonathan Holmes

Women's Most Inspirational - Alyssa Gelman

   On another note, the final National Small College Rugby Organization (NSCRO) rankings have come out and the UT Dallas Rugby Club is still in the top 25 with a final ranking of 21st in the nation out of 236 other college clubs.  For complete results see link below:

http://www.eteamz.com/NSCRO/files/2013-14NSCROFinalMenTop40.pdf






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