Midwest HS Girls Rugby Finals 2022 & Historical Records

Sunday May 1st, 2022

Midwest Girls Rugby Championship Division

1st Place  DSHA 53 v Sparta Rock 29

3rd Place CMHS 24 v Carroll 22 (tied at end of regulation, decided on kicks)

5th Place Brunswick 7 v Grandville 17

7th Place Carmel( forfeit)  Perrysburg moved up and won 22 vs Highland 12

Final Standings

1 DSHA  (WI)

2 Sparta Rock (MI)

3 CMHS (WI)

4 Carroll (IN)

5 Grandville (MI)

6 Brunswick (OH)

7 Perrysburg (OH)

8 Highland (OH)

Congrats to DSHA High School on their 20th Midwest Championship.

Congrats to Sparta Rock in the highest ever finish for a Michigan team.

Midwest Championships Historical Archive updated 2022

1999    Champion:       D.S.H.A.                     Wisconsin                    Host:   Indiana
            Runner-up:      Carmel                         Indiana                         

2000    Champion        Wayzata                      Minnesota                   Host:   Minnesota
            Runner-up       D.S.H.A.                     Wisconsin

2001    Champion:       D.S.H.A.                     Wisconsin                    Host:   Wisconsin
            Runner-up:      Wayzata                      Minnesota

2002    Champion:       Wayzata                      Minnesota                   Host:   Indiana
            Runner-up       D.S.H.A.                     Wisconsin

2003    Champion:       D.S.H.A.                     Wisconsin                    Host:   Minnesota
            Runner-up       Kettle Moraine            Wisconsin      

2004    Champion:       DSHA                         Wisconsin                    Host:   Indian
            Runner-Up      Kettle Moraine            Wisconsin                   

2005    Champion:       DSHA                         Wisconsin                    Host:   Indiana

            Runner-Up:     Vernon Park                Wisconsin
            Third:              Lakewood                   Ohio

2006    Champion        DSHA                         Wisconsin                    Host:   Indiana
            Runner-up       Lakewood                   Ohio    
            Third               Vernon                        Wisconsin

2007    Champion        DSHA                         Wisconsin                    Host:  Indiana
             Runner-up      Vernon Park                Wisconsin
            Third               Lakewood                   Ohio
             Open              Lakeview                    Michigan

2008    Champion        DSHA                         Wisconsin                    Host:  Indiana
            Runner-up       Lakewood                   Ohio
            3^rd Place           Wayzata                      Minn.
            Open               Catholic Memorial      Wisconsin  

2009    Champion        DSHA                         Wisconsin                    Host:  Indiana
            Runner-up       Lakewood                   Ohio
            3^rd Place           Catholic Memorial      Wisconsin

2010    Champion        DSHA                         Wisconsin                    Host:  Indiana
            Runner-up       Brookfield                   Wisconsin
            3^rd Place           Lakewood                   Ohio
            Open               Vernon                                    Wisconsin

2011    Champion        DSHA                         Wisconsin                    Host:  Indiana
            Runner-up       Lakewood                   Ohio
            3^rd Place           Kettle Moraine            Wisconsin
            Open               Catholic Memorial      Wisconsin

2012    Champion        DSHA                         Wisconsin                    Host:   Indiana
            Runner-up       Catholic Memorial      Wisconsin
            3^rd Place           St Joseph’s Academy  Ohio
            Open               DSHA JV                     Wisconsin

2013    Champion        DSHA                         Wisconsin                    Host:  Indiana
            Runner-Up      Catholic Memorial      Wisconsin                    
            3^rd Place           

2014    Champion        DSHA                         Wisconsin                    Host:  Indiana
            Runner-up       Catholic Memorial      Wisconsin        
            3^rd Place           St Joseph                     Ohio
            
2015    Champion        DSHA                         Wisconsin                    Host:  Indiana
            Runner-up       St Joseph                     Ohio
            3^rd Place           Penn HS                      Indiana   

2016    Champion        DSHA                        Wisconsin                    Host:  Indiana
            Runner-up        CMHS                       Wisconsin
            3rd Place          St Joseph                    Ohio

2017    Champion       DSHA                          Wisconsin                    Host:  Indiana
            Runner-up       CMHS                         Wisconsin
            3rd Place         Warsaw                        Indiana
            Club                Hopkins                       Minn
            JV                   DSHA

2018   Champion       CMHS                          Wisconsin                   Host:  Indiana
           Runner-up       DSHA                           Wisconsin
           3rd Place         St Joseph                      Ohio
           Club                Walnut Hills                 Ohio
           JV                    DSHA jv

2019   Champion      DSHA                           Wisconsin                    Host:  Indiana

           Runner-up      CMHS                          Wisconsin

           3rd Place        Grandville                    Michigan

           Club               Brunswick                    Ohio

           JV                  DSHA jv

2021  Champion      DSHA                           Wisconsin                Host: Indiana 

           Runner-up      CMHS                          Wisconsin

           3rd Place        Carroll                          Indiana

2022   Champion     DSHA                           Wisconsin                Host:  Indiana

            Runner-up    Sparta Rock                 Michigan

            3rd Place      CMHS                           Wisconsin

Midwest HS Girls Championships 2022

 The 23rd Annual MW HS Girls 15s Championships take place this weekend.

It is one of the GREAT challenges in rugby:  State Champions and Runners-up from across the Midwest, in three grueling and demanding games in one weekend on professionally groomed, full-sized fields.  No short fields here.  No narrow fields here.  Full on rugby from sideline to sideline.  A champion at this level is a champ at another level of character, teamwork, fitness and skill.  It's also a venue where the young competitors of the future get to square off in JV matches against one another in a preview of things to come.  Good luck to all competitors.

The Championship Division Quarterfinals feature:

Bracket A:

36 CMHS (WI)        v  0 Carmel (IN)

19 Brunswick (OH)   v  38 Sparta Rock (MI)

Bracket B:

61 DSHA (WI)        v   0 Grandville (MI)

20 Carrol (IN)          v  19 Highland (OH)

Updated Scores and Brackets can be found here.

Saturday Semifinals

35 Sparta Rock vs 24 CMH (5-12 at half)

39 DSHA vs 5 Carroll (15-0 at half)

Saturday Consolation Semis

29 Brunswick vs 17 Carmel

36 Grandville vs 10 Highland

The second tier features several JV teams and other emerging teams:

Penn HS JV

DSHA JV

Carrol JV

Berkley (MI)

Ft Wayne (IN)

Perrysburg (OH)

Warsaw (IN)

Other MW Saturday Scores

Warsaw 34  Perrysburg22

Ft Wayne 29  Berkeley 0

DSHA JV 20  Penn JS 15

perrysburg 60 Berkley 0

Warsaw 32  Ft Wayne 10

DSHA JV 32  Carroll JV 7

Midwest HS Girls Rugby Championships 2022

 For over twenty years, girls high school teams throughout the Midwest have come together to compete in a two-day tournament.  Held mostly in the central location of Elkhart, Indiana at the Moose Rugby Grounds, the event hosts multiple brackets of competitors in a girls-only event that's among the largest girls events of the year.

The 2022 tournament returns to its traditional three match, two day Saturday-Sunday format, after a pandemic-enforced shortened one-day version last year.

This year marks the first year that two Michigan teams compete in the Championship Bracket, with a third in the Open Division.  While a decade ago, there were as many as four Michigan teams that would travel and compete, the growth of Michigan girls teams both in terms of numbers and strength continues to add to an already-competitive event.

The top tier features:

Brunswick (OH)

Carmel HS (IN)

Carrol HS (IN)

Catholic Memorial HS (WI)

Divine Savior Holy Angels HS (WI)

Grandville HS (MI)

Highland HS (OH)

Sparta Rock (MI)

The D1 Quarterfinals will see

CMHS vs Carmel

Brunswick vs Sparta Rock

DSHA vs Grandville

Carrol vs Highland

The Open and JV teams competing include

Berkley (MI)

Perrysburg (OH)

Ft Wayne (IN)

DSHA JV

Carrol JV

Penn JV

Warsaw (IN)

Badger Rugby

 The Badger girls program competed at the Tropical 7s over the weekend.  In their first action of the year, their program won 4 matches out of 18 played in various divisions. Congrats to the girls and coaches involved for their contributions and for a nice win over Iowa's 2nd team in the open division.

  Fallbrook (CA) won the Elite division and the Iowa Hawkeyes won the Open Division, defeating Sparta Rock of Michigan in an all-Midwest final.  Sparta Rock will be making their first appearance at the Midwest Girls 15s Championships in Elkhart in two weeks time as well.

Elite Division (0-6)

  Badger 5  The Rugby Advantage Black 17

  Badger 5   Rhinos 7

  Badger 14 Upright Rugby 17

  Badger 7  USA Rugby South 31

  Badger 5  Rugby Advantage Red 22

  Badger 0  Rock Rugby 30

u18 Open (4-2)

  Badger 15  Colorado 7

  Badger 5   Iowa Hawkettes Young Guns 17

  Badger 15  King's Edgehill School 17

  Badger 10  USA South 5

  Badger 14  Riverdale 5

  Badger 25  Iowa Hawkettes 5

u16 Division (0-6)

  Badger 7   Iowa Hawkettes 20

  Badger 7   Rhinos 31

  Badger 0   Belmont Shore 46

  Badger 0  Tsunami Canada Misfits 10

  Badger 10  USA South Red 17

  Badger 10  USA South Blue 24

15s Rugby Re-Emerges in Iowa

 

After a dozen years, 15's girls high school rugby was played in Iowa once more.

Around 2007-2010 there were some small but hardy attempts to play high school girls rugby 15s in the Iowa area.  Each spring they'd host a wonderful tournament that drew from Kansas City to Minnesota to Wisconsin.   One year Katie Johnson came down as a 16 year old to play with her Dad's Hopkins, MN team.  Now a current USA 15s Eagle and 7s Olympian, KJ led her team as 10 back in high school.

This event comes to mind as the highly successful Iowa Hawkettes 7s selectside made a shift this spring into girls 15s as well.  Earlier this month they'd traveled to play a Missouri team and came out victors.

This weekend DSHA took their varsity and jv sides down to Iowa for their first spring run-out.  By all account Coach McDowell and Coach Klein were happy with a competitive match that offered benefits for both teams in two well-reffed matches.

DSHA 44 Iowa Hawkettes 5

DSHA jv 52-5 Iowa Hawkettes B 5

Intro to Rugby Camp (6th-11th Graders) June 2022

Learn and play the tag version of rugby, one of the world's most widely played sports.  Be coached by current high school players in addition to adult coaches. No experience is needed!   This is for beginners as well as girls considering transitioning from flag rugby or other sports over to high school contact rugby.  Campers will learn passing, attack, kicking, as well an introduction to contact on pads.  Campers should bring cleats (soccer work fine), mouth guards, and a water bottle.

When:  June 6,8,9th   M, W,Th

              6-715pm

Where:  CMH Turf Field

Who:  Girls Entering 7th-11th Grade

Link:  https://catholicmemorial.net/admissions/summer-camps/

With questions contact

wisconsingirlsrugby@gmail.com