Rugby supports Autism

A few months ago I tried to launch a fuinding program that I whole heartly believed in, sadly due to lack of funding and a major miss communication between me and the website it never grew to more then what was posted online.

for those of you who don't remember I wanted to create a crowdsource funding drive to support those in the autism community and to donate to non profit organizations who support those who are on the autism spectrum and there families. my own daughter who is 4 years old was dignosed with aspergers this past summer and to say its been easy for us as a family and for her going to pre school getting ready for kindergarten would be a lie. it has been hard and frustrating at times, but at the end of the day we love our daughter very much and as a father Asperger's or not I would do anything for her. 

We began attending autism walks events, group meetings, special guest speakers but I wanted to do more then the occasional donations and waiting till the next event. My daughter enjoyed watching me play rugby and loves tossing the ball back and forth. It got me thinking, how can I combine both rugby, a sport I love and something my daughter enjoys with a cause that I am passionate about and wanting do my part to support those who are also dealing with being on the spectrum or for those who have a loved on who is.

So here it is, the shirt is black and white with the LLR logo on front and Rugby Supports Autism Awareness on the back. if you are interested in a shirt contact me first with size and how many. they come in youth - adult. The website does not allow anyone to go on and purchase the shirt, sadly only I can but the company moves pretty quick in completing the order. once the order is completed and sent to me then it will sent out rapidly to those who purchased a shirt. I am sorry for the inconvenience but till I can find another seller/site this will have to do. you can find the PayPal button on the right hand side a picture also above, the set amount is $25.50 to cover all cost. there is no sales tax and shipping fee. If you can not pay through PayPal please feel free to contact me through email or any of the other social media sites.

I want you all to know that this is not for profit, all proceeds will be donated to the non-profit Autism Society .

NorCal 2/23/2015

Top 5 rankings in Top 5 Divisions in NCYRA

Varsity Single School

1-Clayton Valley

2-Dixon

3-Jesuit

4-Riordan

5-De La Salle

 

              Varsity Gold

1-Danville

2-Sierra Foothills

3-Jesuit

4-Granite Bay

5-Mother Lode

 

              Girls Varsity Gold

1-Pleasanton

2-Danville

3-BOD

4-Renegade Rugby

5-Lancers

 

              Girls Varsity Silver

1-Clayton Valley

2-Alameda

3-Silicon Valley

4-Pleasanton

5-Sonoma County Crushers

 

              Varsity Silver

1-Bullard

2-EPA

3-Roosevelt

4-NAPA

5-Mother Lode

             

Mexico Rugby League

A few weeks ago now I conducted a Q&A with one of the founding members of Mexico Rugby League. Part 2 of that Q&A instead will be a breakdown of a presentation that Mexico Rugby League conducted a few months back that will hopefully answer some questions that still have not been answered.

As it stands MRL only has 5 senior clubs that help make up the player pool for the National Team, within those 5 clubs each also runs a 9’s team to help develop new players and expose the game of Rugby League to the general community and those interested. Each senior team can run as many 9s teams as they want, the same day that the senior men’s teams play is also the same day that they play 9s, think of 9’s as a warm up match prior to the main event.

The MRL is endorsed by the RLIF and RLEF with coaching assistance from the folks with the Latin heat and those from England and Australia. Each home team is responsible to provide not just playing fields for the senior teams to participate on, but for the 9’s clubs associated with each senior club to play on for that day of games, each game must have an official present. Each game will be only 50 minutes of playing time, two 25 min half’s with ample time for halftime. There will only be 6 subs and unlimited amount of players able to dress for ether team. The game of 9’s will use the same rules as they use in Auckland for the 9’s tournament there.

 

Bottom line is the MRL as small and little numbers they have they are in surprisingly great shape. Because they are still raw they still have a chance to carve the sport out in México the way they want to, the right way that is fit for the people of México. It will take many, many hard years to get to the level as many other counties out there and I don’t mean England or Australia. But here is what I do believe they can do to help further there game and also help secure the growth of the code in not just México but also North America.

1-      There is no harm in teaming up with the union in Mexico, it is a win win situation for both parties, the rugby union players have a way to keep playing and training in the off season while also still playing in a high physical environment. The rugby league players have a chance to learn and also surround them self’s with other players who have experience playing in higher profile games. Both the union AND league national teams will receive a shot in the arm, now before everyone throws their hands up in the air and say nether party will work with each other, both already do and are not viewing each other as enemies. One of the clubs involved with the MRL already fields a union side. The Mexico rugby union has no problem with its players playing league, what they need to do is sit down and work with each other.

2-      Begin working with other Rugby league nations in the Americas, I.E Canada and USA and Jamaica. Since they too are not that far ahead in development and in need of matches for their national teams. Imagine a Four Nations set up for the Americas and even, MRL can get a constant NATIONAL team set up then USA and Canada together with also Jamaica can begin to play a set of test matches every year. Which is good because so far USA and Canada do play each other but after that then there is no matches till its WC qualifying time.

3-      The USARL has a pretty good set up in creating a developmental team, till MRL can get a steady flow and higher volume of games for players, this method could be the next big thing. It’ll give players an opportunity to grow their game along with spreading the game of Rugby League through out there country.

I wish the very best for Mexico Rugby League and hope that the game its self begins to grow and expand. There truly is a bright future for the code of Rugby League in the Americas, it will just take some time.,

NCYRA 2/10/15 Rankings

       There was much movement for a week where there was not many games played.  Boys Varsity SS remains the same but Clayton and Dixon do extend their lead above everyone else, the biggest change is in the Boys Varsity silver, where we see two central valley teams make the top five Danville and Pleasanton both jump to the top

       Boys Varsity Single school

            1-      Clayton Valley

            2-      Dixon

            3-      Rirodan

            4-      Bellarmine

            5-      Jesuit

Boys Varsity Gold

            1-      Danville

            2-      Granite Bay

            3-      Pleasanton

            4-      Jesuit

            5-      Mother lode

Girls Varsity Gold

            1-      Pleasanton

            2-      Renegade rugby

            3-      Lancers

            4-      Danville

            5-      Bullard

Girls Varsity Silver

            1-      Alameda

            2-      Clayton valley

            3-      Pleasanton

            4-      Chico

            5-      Lady cougars

Boys Varsity Silver

            1-      Danville

            2-      Pleasanton

            3-      Clovis

            4-      Napa

            5-      Bullard

NCYRA Rankings 2/4/15

I have decided that I will also be posting my own rankings this year but of the u19 clubs in NCYRA. Because to be frank I do not have the time to go down the list of every division and rank them from 1- 20 or 25 and so on. Instead I will be doing rankings 1-5 for the first 5 divisions this first year. As the season goes on I will be tinkering with how rankings are done or how far I decided to rank teams. For now teams are firstly ranked by point total , if teams have the same amount points then the next decider is points for, if that is still the same then the next is points against. 

Boys Varsity single school:
1-Clayton Valley
2-Dixon
3- Riordan
4- Bellarmine
5- De La Salle

Boys Varsity Gold
1- Granite Bay
2- Danville
3- Pleasanton
4- Jesuit
5- Mother Lode

Girls Varsity Gold
1- Pleasanton
2- Renegade rugby
3- Lancers
4- Danville
5- Bullard

Girls Varsity Silver
1- Chico
2- Clayton Valley
3- Pleasanton
4- Alameda
5- Silicon Valley

Boys Varsity Silver
1- Fresno
2- EPA
3- Pleasanton
4- Marin
5- Lamorinda

NorCal Youth Rugby 2/2/2015

Here are the Top 5 listings to some of the divisions of NorCal youth rugby. I am glad that they post the scores to games played and so do other Union's but i also believe that the more people that write, re-post, re-tweet and so on the more that information and attention is drawn to youth,high school, college, men and women s clubs.
Boys Varsity Single School:
1) Clayton Valley- 5 pts
2) Bellarmine- 1 pts
3) De La Salle- 0 pts

Boys Varsity Gold:
BAY-
1)  North Bay
2) Danville
3)  Pleasanton
4)  SFGG
5) Hayward

SAC-
1)  Granite Bay
2)  Jesuit
3) Mother Lode
4)  Sierra Foothills
5)  Islanders


Girls Varsity Gold:
ALL-
1) Pleasanton
2) Renegade Rugby
3)  Lancers
4) Bullard
5) Danville

Girls Varsity Silver:
ALL-
1) Clayton Valley
2) Pleasanton
3) Chico
4) Alameda
5) Silicon Valley 

Boys Varsity Silver:
BAY-
1) EPA 
2) Danville-
3) Oakland
4) Los Gatos
5) Pleasanton

Central-
1) Buchanan
2) Roosevelt
3) Clovis
4) Bullard
5) Fresno

Redwood-
1) Marin
2) Napa
3) Bishop O'Dowd
4) Alameda
5) Berkeley

SAC-
1) Dixon
2) Sac Eagles
3) Chrisitan Bros
4) Lancers
5) Mother lode