Pacific Desert Rugby Conference

Pacific Desert rugby conference

Welcome to the new Pacific Desert Rugby Conference (PDRC) website. We are building this site as we speak. If you are one of our D1 or D2 teams, we have sent your teams current contact an email to get up to date information regarding your team. We want to have current information for your team, your fans, and prospective athletes or colleges who may want to start a new women's rugby teams/clubs.

Please contact us at our info email address if you have any updates.

Pacific Desert Rugby Conference (PDRC) is committed to grow collegiate women's rugby by developing the student-athlete, the

coaches and the teams. Our values, our passion, our perseverance and teamwork will be

the foundation to the success of our conference. PDRC serves the players, coaches, universities and spectators

that make up who we are. We stand together and we win as one!

The History of Rugby

Rugby was born in 1823 when, in a fit of unsportsmanlike rage, William Webb Ellis of Rugby School in England picked up the ball during a match of soccer and ran with it. Since that time, many others have mimicked his actions (both unlawfully during soccer as well as during sanctioned rugby matches). Rugby was brought to the U.S. by 1840, and in 1911, lead to the development of American football with the introduction of the forward pass.

Women, bright enough to avoid playing American football, joined in the sport of rugby by the 1970s by organizing the country's first women's clubs in Colorado and Connecticut. Rugby is at present one of the fastest growing sports among collegiate women in the U.S.

PDRC Board Members

Emily Ogata, Commissioner

Olivia Soares, Secretary

Rusty Wortman, Treasurer

Joanne Absher, D1 Competition Chair

Evan Wollen, D2 Competition Chair

Tony Roulhac, Referee Director

Alecia Foster, D2 Representative

Open Position, D1 Representative

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