Get Rugby in Your School...

Tom Schmitt and the Marquette University Women have been running high interest days in local schools for some time now. If you're local school has a "high interest day" when community members can share new interests with students, you should consider contacting Tom and seeing if Rugby can be a part of that event.

Here is the text from the flyer, for those who are looking for the information::

RUGBY! This sport may mean nothing for you, however more than 3.5 million people play rugby around the world across the 7 continents.

The excitement of football, kicking skills of soccer, the agility of basketball, the speed of baseball, the solidarity of ice hockey. All these skills in one sport: RUGBY!

A complete sport that combines hands and foot play, agility, speed, team spirit and solidarity. Linda Niemela and Tom Schmitt, respectively founder and coach of Marquette University Women's Rugby Football Club, along with Romain Vende of Paris France, will share with you their love of the game.

Played with an over-sized football, Rugby allows everybody to play without physical restriction (tall, small, thin and largest). We will be presenting a brief history of this sport which first appeared in 1823. Your students will get to work with the ball and see the equipment. We will present the rules and values of our sport. We have presented at Orchard Elementary School in New Berlin, for 5 years. We would welcome the opportunity to share our sport with your students. Please contact Tom Schmitt at WIRUGBY@aol.com or simply email us your high interest day dates and we will follow up.

RUGBY: “More than Sport, A way of life…”