Girls Rugby Season Preview

As summer turns to fall, a new girls high school rugby season begins in Wisconsin.

If you needed any more reason to be excited for the upcoming season, which kicks off Friday with Hamilton hosting Catholic Memorial and DSHA traveling to Madison, you should check out the work that Wisconsin Rugby News has been doing!

Wisconsin Rugby News

Wisconsin Rugby News has been hard at work interviewing coaches, compiling stats, and scouring the record books to put together a really impressive guide to this season.

They have a season primer, a schedule overview, and in-depth previews of all the teams competing this season. Click on the bars in the top-left corner and select “2026 Girls News” to see all the great work they’ve been doing.

Are you ready for some rugby?

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Nationals Scores

 First Round Single School tier one (1230pm)

DSHA 10  Eagle 13

Meridian 36  Kahuku 12 

2nd Round (230pm)

DSHA 22  Summit 12

Kahuku 49  Rocky Mountain 1o*

The Rugby Breakdown is reporting this match as a Rocky Mt victory.  The score above is listed in the  RugbyExplorer match results[it was originally listed 55-12].  Perhaps the score and match did not count for some reason.  In Rugby Explorer, the three teams in this pool are listed each at 1-1 (Rocky, Meridian, and Kahuku with Meridian having the higher point differential being listed as first).

3rd Round

Eagle 24 Summit 17

Meridian 22 Rocky Mt 27

Saturday

Finals:  Eagle 41 vs Meridian 10

3rd Place:  DSHA 61 vs Rocky Mt 12

5th Place:  Summit 44  vs Kahuku 15

Final High School Girls Tier I Standings:

1. Eagle (ID)

2.Meridian (ID)

3. DSHA (WI)
4. Rocky Mt (ID)

5. Summit (CO)

6. Kahuku (HI)

Tier Two Finals:

1st:  Wasatch 25   Herriman/Kearns 0

3rd: Eagle jv 10    LCA 46

5th:  City Honors 41  Helena 33

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from WGR to Professional Athletes

     Numerous WGR alumni are competing as professional rugby players in WER Rugby this spring.  The league website can be found here with full rosters, schedules, stories, and records.  These trailblazers, who all played high-level collegiate women's rugby, hail from a variety of WGR high school teams across the state:

Boston

Emily Becker     Kettle Moraine grad (sadly KM has since folded as a program)& Lindenwood Univ.

Oliver Wright     Catholic Memorial HS & Harvard Univ.

Denver

Aly Cunningham   Catholic Memorial HS & Sacred Heart Univ.

Minneapolis 

Alexis Dallas          Bruisers & Lander Univ & Wheeling Univ.

Hannah Pfersch       Hamilton HS & Quinnipiac Univ.

Girls High School National Tournament teams and schedules 2026

 Stay tuned for more info on match schedules, results, and historical records.  Matches take place this Friday and Saturday May 15th &16th, 2026.

The Single School top tier includes:

DSHA HS (WI)

Eagle HS (ID)

Kahuku (HI)

Meridian (ID)

Rocky Mountain (ID)

Summit HS (CO)

Match Schedule: (click here for full schedule details)

Friday May 15th

Eagle vs DSHA    1230pm

Meridian vs Kahuku  1230pm

Summit vs DSHA 230pm

Rocky Mt vs Kahuku 230pm

Summit vs Eagle 530pm

Rocky Mt vs Meridian 530pm

Notes:

. *As of Wednesday, Meridian has been added to the rugbyexplorer schedule of matches and pool play standings list. 

Of note as well is the varied turnaround time for teams between matches.

Single School second tier

Pool A

City Honors, N.Y.

Eagle JV, Idaho

Wasatch, Utah

Pool B

Herriman, Utah

Hydra, Mont.

Layton Christian Academy (LCA), Utah