Tri-State Collegiate Rugby Conference

Memorandum           

To:       All Women’s Teams

Re:       Zoom call on 8-23-22 with Women’s Teams

Date:   8-30-22

A Zoom call was scheduled and took place on for 8-23-22 and all the Women’s Teams of the Tri-State Conference were invited. Discussion included the following:

Report Scores

Teams were asked to please report their game scores to tobrown@vassar.edu so that the website be updated in a timely manner. Teams were asked to give the score and to note the number of tries scored since bonus points are allocated for 4 tries or more. Both teams should report the score.

Referee Assignments

Teams were asked to contact their assigned referee as soon as possible after learning the assignment via “Whostheref.”email. This confirmation is usually done no later than the Tuesday prior to the game on the weekend. Please detail location, KO time, team colors and payment arrangements. Teams were reminded that any changes to the schedule must come through the Conference and that unilateral action was not permitted. It was felt that the collegiate teams needed to have one individual per team be qualified as a referee, as is the case with the Empire GU clubs, and that would go a good way to making Saturday games possible in the future.

Disciplinary Committee

A prior call with the men’s teams included the need to establish a Disciplinary Committee so that the referee societies can be fully supported. In lieu of an elected committee the coaches of the two teams competing that day, two other coaches together with a referee representative shall form this committee.

Officers

Teams were asked to check the website and send any updates of their officers to tobrown@vassar.edu asap.

Fall 2022 Schedule

Some teams are still suffering the effects of the last 2 years with disruptions on account of Covid-19. Rosters are smaller than would be the norm. Molloy College Women would likely only be able to field a 7s team this Fall. Teams were asked to be understanding of this situation and try to help programs get games of some variety. 7s, 10s, 12s could be done. Team representatives then discussed scrimmages and pledged to work with each other.

Please feel free to contact Tony Brown with any questions or concerns.

tobrown@vassar.edu