What an amazing season the U19’s had this year! With an extremely hectic schedule, our young gents shined brightly. Between school, practice’s, and friendly and league games, they barely had a moment to themselves and showed true dedication and commitment.

To begin the season, the boys participated in a fundraiser to pay for their trip to New Mexico this last March. They played two games while they were there against local high school teams and won both games.

In April the team participated in the Rocky Mountain Classic Tournament hosted by Colorado Youth Rugby (Now, Rugby Colorado), and brought home the first place trophy.

As many of you know Rugby Colorado re-implemented a Two Tier Divisional structure, and the Glendale was placed in division 2 this year. Due to a lack of statistics because of the relatively short amount of time they have been in existence. Many players and supporters were a bit disappointed when they received the news. However, this will not be a problem next year because our Team finished the regular season undefeated!  Their hard work paid off when they won the Round 1 playoffs, which promoted them to Division 1 and secured a seed in the Division 1 Playoffs against division 1 team, East High School (last year’s state champions) in the round two-playoff game.

Glendale Raptor U19’s, their coaches and supporters would like to congratulate East High School on a game well played. The final score East – 38, Glendale – 34 illustrates what a close game it was and we look forward to meeting on the field again next year.

The last appointment for the team for the season is the yearly team banquet and we look forward to reminiscing about the 2010 Rugby season and the accomplishments the team and the coaches achieved this year.

Rugby isn’t done for many of the players on the team though. The freshmen players will continue playing this summer in the upcoming Try League. Many of the older players will likely continue playing as well, in the Eastern Rockies RFU U19 & U17 Select Teams.