Mines Club Women's Rugby

Our rugby family’s families want to wish everyone a MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAY! Missing you loads over break! 🫶

Scouting for rookies on the M-Climb

Here are some upcoming events to find our team at, as the school year kicks off! Come get onto our contact list, talk to current players, and throw the ball around!! We can’t wait to meet everyone and for you to join our rugby family 🏉🥳⚒️

Congratulations to the on a USA Rugby U23 All Star Championship and an outstanding rugby tournament! We had current player, Aliya, and alumni Michaela representing on our U23 regional All Star team. So proud of them both as they played an amazing tournament filled with both scoring a try and great playing minutes!!

SENIOR APPRECIATION ALERT 🚨: Our co-captain and #15, Michaela Adams is dangerous on the field. After coming from a rugby family and playing in high school, Michaela brought her talents and heart to the Orediggers. A quick and intelligent offensive player with a heavy hitting defense, Michaela has been a staple to Mines Women’s Rugby throughout her 4 years. She sacrificed blood, sweat, and tears for this team! We admire her love for rugby and her dedication to the team! Michaela has had an immeasurable impact on Mines Women’s Rugby and this program is so grateful to have had her! Thank you so much for being a fantastic teammate, leader, and friend! We know she’ll tackle life with her entire heart and soul! Keep going for tries and stiff-arming any challenges coming at you!

SENIOR APPRECIATION POST ALERT 🚨: Our co-captain and fly-half, Piper Bailey brought physicality as well as heart to our team! With previous rugby seasons under her belt, Piper entered college with a determination to push Mines Women’s Rugby to greatness! A dual edged sword, she was a threatening defender and a game changing offensive player. Mines Women’s Rugby thanks Piper for the leadership, commitment, drive, and support that she brought to the team! She has been essential in the growth of this program and the rookie players. Piper has been a fantastic leader, friend, and teammate! Her passion and love for rugby will continue on within the team, and we hope to make her proud. She is a powerful person with unmatched motivation to succeed. We are beyond thrilled to watch her jam into new opportunities during study abroad and hope to have her back for our next 7s season!

SENIOR APPRECIATION POST ALERT 🚨: Maggie Piwowarczyk has been an amazing offensive and defensive presence on our team for the past 5 years! She brings life to the team both on and off the pitch. Her fitness is unmatched and her skill makes her a bomb!Maggie’s passion and dedication to this team deserves a world of thanks. She has brought this team joy, experience, leadership, and has only made positive contributions to Mines Women’s Rugby! Her warm positive attitude has made this team so welcoming and such a good environment! While we will miss her greatly, Maggie is going to make an explosion as she enters life post college and we can’t wait to see her impact!

SENIOR APPRECIATION POST ALERT 🚨: Claire Lautman came from her Varsity swim career to join rugby for her last semester in college! Not only did she dedicate herself to learning rugby but she was an amazing teammate! Claire always put full effort and had an amazing energy. Her teammates appreciated Claire’s friendship and the laughs that she brought! She showed amazingly positive energy during 7s Nationals and Mines Women’s Rugby could not be more glad that she joined! We are all cheering for Claire as she continues her journey and know that she will be great wherever she goes! Thank you Claire for being part of Mines Women’s Rugby!

SENIOR APPRECIATION POST ALERT 🚨: Next up is this absolute beast, Tori Polda! As our #8, she was everywhere on the field and the nightmare of other teams. Unafraid of contact, Tori went headfirst into collisions (a little too literally), which caused an unfortunate early ending to her season. However, she contributed heavily to our defense and offense as an explosive threat! Mines Women’s Rugby was glad to have her as a member of this team. We thank Tori for her time playing with us and making memories of a lifetime. As her teammates and friends, we cannot wait to see what other amazing opportunities she takes head on and the challenges that she tackles! (P.S sorry for the bloody photos but didn’t she take it like a champ?)

SENIOR APPRECIATION POST ALERT 🚨: Starting off with Jane Turek, our beloved ho**er! Jane was a beast on the field. Offensively explosive, running through defenders and a lockdown defender, making huge tackles (with nearly no missed tackles). Although her season was cut short due to injury, Jane remained an integral part of the team. Through her leadership, support, and experience, Mines Women’s Rugby benefited greatly. Mines Women’s Rugby thanks Jane for all of her contributions to our team throughout the years!! We will miss our #2 but we can’t wait to see the next challenges she takes on and where she will take her talent in the future!

Hard fought championship game. Second in the nation has a nice ring to it…

Come watch prom dress rugby tomorrow at 4 on IM North! The one of a kind annual edays alumni game!!

Watch Mines play at 9 and 10:20 tomorrow on IM North! Wear teal to raise awareness for sexual assault prevention!

Come support Women’s Rugby and Mines Peer Educators at our home tournament this Saturday!! Kickoff is at 9am!

Happy Valentine’s Day! Always remember that rugby is love ❤️🏉💕

Lady ruggers on winter break. Happy holidays from the Mines Women’s Rugby Team!! 🏉🎄⭐️🎁🎉 See y’all in February to kick off our spring season!

Four Women's Teams Seek D2 College Glory Four teams remains in the CRAA Women's D2 championships and this weekend we'll find out who ends up on top. Favorites are likely Vassar, which won the title last year in emphatic fashion over Temple. This year, Vassar returned to the semis after winning the Tri-State Conference. In what turned out t...

After an 80-minute battle on the pitch this Saturday, the Mines Women’s rugby team claimed our title as the conference champions!! 🏆🏉⛏️

Thank you to all the fans who came out wearing purple to help raise awareness for domestic violence 💜💜💜

🚨See you at nationals!!🚨

Tomorrow the ladies in blue (and purple) kickoff the conference championship against Mesa!! Come out wearing purple to support the team and fight against domestic violence🏉⛏️💜

kickoff at 11am
🚨Mines Women’s rugby kickoff at 2pm🚨

Then and now! Mines women’s rugby back in 1999 and the team today 🏉

Ruggers on fall break 🏉💪🍂

🚨Mark your calendars!!🚨 Mines rematches Mesa to defend our title as the Conference Champions 🏆🏉 kickoff at 2pm after the game at 11am

Mother Ruckers took the W in indoor soccer tonight!!