![]() ![]() ![]() The Royals, as Queens are known, reached the last four of the USA Rugby Men's Division II National Championship in 2018 with a team made up of Freshmen and Sophomores, on the back of an 8-4 regular season win-record. Queens University □ #FallCollegeChamps #CollegeRugby #Champions /80TB7QmImdįast-forward a year though and the signs of progress were there for all to see. “The first year was a big challenge because we were trying to play competitive games with players who’d had no experience of rugby.” “We brought in 15 players, four of those were wrestlers who had never played rugby before and another was the College mascot. “In my mind, if I could build a team that was diverse with all different types of people – from different socio-economic backgrounds and different colours – that, to me, was going to be really interesting. “I hated the fact that the sport I loved didn’t have anyone that looked anything close to me. You didn’t see black people you didn’t see any Asian people you didn’t see any Latino people … you didn’t see any of that,” he pointed out. “In US rugby, you didn’t see a lot of diversity. McKinney, a crash-ball centre in his playing days – nicknamed “The Black Hole” because the ball apparently never saw the light of day once he had it in his hands – set out building a squad that was big on diversity, not on experience. ![]()
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