The VSU rugby club entered a new chapter in the short but successful history of the team. The rugby club has moved conferences, leaving the Georgia Rugby Union, which the Blazers have been members of since the club was founded in 2010, to the SEC’s rugby league, the Southeastern Collegiate Rugby Conference. Additionally, the club started a women’s team in ...

Three-time, All-American Rugby player Mike Nita came back to VSU to lead the team as head coach. One thing that Nita says bothers him since leaving VSU in 2019 is: He was never able to pull off a successful playoff run. He hopes to change that narrative as head coach. Nita began playing rugby when he was in high school ...

by Allison Thorpe The Valdosta State Men’s Rugby Club continues to be the buzz this side of the state. The club that made it all the way to Nationals 7’s last year is hoping for a repeat come May. But taking each match one day at a time is their focus; just as it was a few Saturdays ago against ...

Written By: Alex Tostado  The VSU rugby team is headed to Milledgeville, Georgia to play in the Dirty Deep Roots Tournament. It will be a round-robin style tournament including three other teams. Georgia College and State University will combine with Macon Men’s team to make Macon Love. G.R.I.T.Z. and Gwinnett will also be in the tourney. The tournament begins at ...

Written By: Lia Armistead The VSU Rugby Club started off their season this weekend and travelled to Statesboro, Georgia, to compete in a two-day tournament over the weekend against eight other teams around the state. VSU was pretty successful at the tournament, coming in second, with Georgia Southern in first place and Augusta in third place. The team only lost ...

Written by: Lia Armistead. The Valdosta State Rugby Club is having a car wash Saturday, Sept. 6 at 9 a.m. in the Lucky’s parking lot off Baytree Rd. to raise money for their spring season. According to Max Mundel, the team has been very successful in raising money from the car wash in the past. Last semester the club rose between ...

The Valdosta State rugby club has made it to the national championship tournament−almost. After going 5-0 in a qualifying tournament at Emory College on April 12, the team earned the right to play with the nation’s best teams in the National Small College Rugby Organization national championship. The only problem the team is facing is funds. In order for the ...

Written by: Victoria Johnson Having only been a club sport at Valdosta State for four years, the rugby team is in full force this semester. They won their previous game against North Georgia College on Feb. 22, beating their opponents by a landslide with a score of 93-0. The team is 4-0 on the season. “We make sure to get ...

written by: Victoria Johnson The Valdosta State Rugby team is charging in full force this spring season. Saturday, VSU competes against North Georgia College & State at 2 p.m at the North Campus field. “This is the biggest game of the season. If we win this game we will be eligible to go to playoffs in Pensacola, at the University ...

Written by: Steven Quinn Q&A w/ Jon Murtaugh             In an interview with Jon Murtaugh, director of operations for the VSU Rugby Club, we discussed everything related to VSU rugby. When was the rugby club born? “We started back in 2010. There were about six to eight of us who went out to the front lawn to play, and after ...