USA Sevens Collegiate Championship

Recently USA rugby put together the first ever National Collegiate 7s Championship.  Due to the event being new and unknown in the women's world, USA rugby took applications for the women's sides.  (Men's teams were determined by tournament winners).

UNC-Charlotte women started a 7s team this fall and decided to apply even if it was a long shot.  12 teams from D1 and D2 were chosen.  At first UNC-Charlotte didn't make the cut, but as one team had to back out, Mean Green was next in line to replace them.

On November 30th, USA Rugby called and invited the UNC-Charlotte women to play in the 2011 USA Rugby Men's and Women's College Sevens National Championships.  These championships will be played on December 16 & 17, 2011 in College Station, TX.

The tournament is serving as an opportunity for students to showcase their abilities to National Team selectors.  Selectors have their eyes focused on 7s as it will be played in the 2016 Olympics.

Congratulations Ladies. 

The only downside, the team has to pay to get there.  Plane tickets alone are $300.00 each.  If you can help, please contact Courtney Jessamy.  Multiple sponsorship opportunities are avilable and every dollar counts!

Sponsorship Packages:

One Flight: $300

This donation will cover the cost of one round trip ticket to Texas.  With it you will receive an appreciation letter and signed photograph of the team.

Three Flights: $1200.00

This donation will cover the cost of three round trip tickets to Texas.  With it you will receive an appreciation letter, signed photo, and a thank you from each team member posted on facebook (with a link to your establishment).

Half way There: $2500.00

This donation will allow the team to get half way to Texas.  With it you would receive all the above items, plus your logo and link on our website and your logo on our shirts that we will wear to the tournament and around Charlotte when we return.

Title Trip Sponsor $5000.00

With this elite sponsorship you would cover the cost of the entire trip.  Doing so will earn you all of the above items plus your logo printed on our jerseys

We need YOUR help

While the NCAA lists rugby as an "emerging sport for women" , here at UNC-Charlotte we are a club sport.  The school provides us with a budget of $5,000 to cover all of our USA Rugby dues, referees, equipment and travel.  At the end of the day - that money doesn't go very far.  Our goal is to attend Regional and National playoffs just as we did last year.  We are already winning friendly games in preparation for matrix season.  The problem is that to travel to playoffs will budget us at about $25,000.  Therefore we NEED YOUR help.

You don't have to run out and drop us a check without expecting anything in return (although if you do, we would love you forever).  Right now we have a few fundraisers going on that are easy, have great returns for us and can even be free to you.

•  All of the ladies are selling DOMINO's Pizza buy one get one FREE cards!  Each card has 16 coupons attached to it.  So buy 1 card for $10 and 16 times you'll be able to buy a pizza and get one free.  That's $200 worth of pizza for $10!!!
• Recently we paired up with Scrumbot and opened our own gear store.  You can buy shirts, pullovers, jerseys, duffle bags, even warm-ups in support of your Mean Green Ladies! Every time you do, the team gets 20% of your sale!  plus shipping is only $4.95 for the first item and $1.00 for every item after that.  These make great Christmas presents!  Check out the Apparel link at the top of this page.
• Here's an easy, FREE, way to raise money for us!  Just start using Yahoo! powered GoodSearch.com as your search engine and they'll donate about a penny to the alumni association every time you do a search! In addition, do all of your shopping through their online shopping mall, GoodShop.com, where you can shop at more than 2,400 top online retailers and a percentage of your purchases will also go to the alumni association. You pay the same price as you normally would, but a donation goes to us! GOODSEARCH!
• We are looking for new and innovative ways to raise money, so if you know of one, please let us know!  And if you or your business are looking to sponsor us, please visit our sponsorship page!  Your donation is tax deductible!!!

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Going to Nationals

In 10 days, UNCCharlotte Women's Rugby will make history by playing in the DII National Sweet 16 Playoffs.  We will be traveling to Austin Tindall Regional Park in  Kissimmee, Florida.  

As we are such a new team, we are having to fundraise every dollar to attend this national event.  Two weeks ago we went to Alabama for regionals, and it took all we had.  Right now we are working on several events to get to Florida.  Please help us by attending one of these events, or clicking Donate on the left of this page.  If you are looking for a tax deduction, you can go to www.unccrugby.org as the alumni association is a 501C-3, just be sure to make a note that it is for the women's team.

Thursday April 7th, 10:00am-4:00pm: Bake Sale at the Student Union on Campus

Saturday April 9th, 8:00pm-10:30pm: Fundraiser at Tilt on Trade : 127 W Trade St, Charlotte, NC

Sunday April 10th, Noon-5:00pm: Car Wash at Tire Kingdom 7918 N Tryon St, Charlotte NC

Thursday April 12th, 10:00am-4:00pm: Bake Sale at the Student Union on Campus

Thursday April 14th, 10:00am-4:00pm: Bake Sale at the Student Union on Campus

 This team has come a long way from it's humble beginnings two years ago.  To go so far so fast is amazing.  UNCCharlotte Rugby is finally making their place in the world and has gained press from Rugby Magazine!  Please help us continue on our path!

"We were impressed with how UNC-C handled Lee University, especially after its 21-10 win over Kennesaw State, a team that had played Lee to a 30-26 loss during the conference finals. Charlotte's performance earned them a spot on the Top 25 (national ranking)." ~ Rugby Mag