Today It's A Good Day To Be A Coach

Middlebury College Rewards Ward Patterson With Full-Time Coaching Position

CONGRATULATIONS WARDO !

And thank you to the decision makers at Middlebury College who helped make this dream a reality for a deserving member of your community.

It is a good day for Coach Ward Patterson and also a good day to be a fan of the Middlebury College Rugby Club.

Today They Became Old Boys

Middlebury Graduates Class of 2007

Sunday May 27, 2007. The alumni club of the MCRC, the loose knit, randomly connected, and ever-growing posse of former players, gained eleven new members today, as team mates changed roles from Middlebury student to Middlebury alumnus at today's commencement exercises.

Congratulations to the following graduates of the Middlebury College Rugby Club and to your very proud families:

Joseph Della Rocca
Doug Hale
Jeff Harasimowicz
Alex Ladeau
Pascal Losambe
James Manyuru
Pat Mott
Matt Volz
Chas Wirene
Muchadei Zvoma

The Friends of Rugby offer you all the warmest wishes on this very special day !
And fellas, you did take care of those library fines, right?

What A View From THIS Pitch

Harasimowicz Photo

Middlebury College 2007 National Champions
Panthers Take The Game Away Early

Stanford University, May 5, 2007

In the words of Coach Ward Patterson Middlebury College had a 'dream come true' end to their season taking a solid game plan to the Arkansas State Indians and winning their Division II National Championship match 38-22 at Stanford's Steuber Rugby Stadium.

Senior flanker and forwards captain Jimmy Manyuru described the team's preparation for Arkansas State in his post game interview on the USA Rugby website's live satellite feed. "It was a great win for us -and we worked hard. We knew they had big forwards and quick wings and that we'd have to watch their counterattacks. We had great play from Much (Zvoma) Pascal and fly half Matt Volz and our centers today."


Much Leading The Post-game Haka Harasimowicz Photo

To be continued... with photos from Ellen Harasimowicz and mad PROPS to Tavia Patterson for keeping me in the loop during the team's National Run with her cell phone communications from the sidelines.

Weighed, Measured and Found Worthy

Panthers v. Indians for DII National Championship
T-Minus 47:35 hours...

Next up for the MCRC? The Arkansas State Indians, the last minute, 25-24 winners of their semifinal match two weeks ago against the defending National Champion and Northeast Territory top seeded US Coast Guard Academy.

This NCAA Division II Men's Collegiate national championship match is scheduled for this Saturday, May 5, 2007 at 1:00pm in Stanford, California.

For LIVE streaming web coverage of this unprecedented event as well as the other National DII and DI matches on tap for the weekend point your browser to the USA Rugby website. The live streaming link is going to be linked from their home page.

Oh yeah, game is ON....



All photos this post by Ellen Harasimowicz.