Establishing a Team

Lauren Smith and Sara Davis are two women who have experienced what rugby had done for many, creating a sense of unity and acceptance, prior to establishing the Greenville Grizzlies. These experience players came together with similar desires: they wanted to bring a female rugby team to the Upstate. Greenville's rugby community had already been established as it has a couple of high school teams and an adult male team: The Greenville Griffins; however, the women's portion of the club folded in 2011. Therefore, Smith and Davis set out by going door-to-door, spreading the word through media outlets, and preaching the three pillars of the Grizzlies: community, camaraderie, and competition. The end result has been the Greenville Women's Rugby.