| Eno River Rugby's History: |
| It seems like only yesterday.....Nina Heard, Deb Barrow and
Deb Green got together a sevens team in the summer of 1991 and
used that as a nucleus to organize a fifteens team that fall.
Nina Heard and Deb Barrow were our first coaches. We had players
from all over the Triangle and Triad on those first teams and
so we chose the name Eno River since it reflected the regional
nature of the team.
At that time we were the only women's club team between D.C. and
Atlanta, and the only women's team in North Carolina. We traveled
to NoVa for our first game that September with a team ranging
in age from 16 to 41, and only having 4 people on our roster
who had played rugby before. We lost to NoVa by a lot that day
but played a very close game with Gotham from NYC. We showed
steady improvement and won the social division at the Atlanta
Ruggerfest that November in our very first season.
That following spring season we whupped NoVa's ass and took second
place in the Dogwood Tournament in Knoxville. We also won the
social division at the Ruggerama sevens tournament that summer
(1992). Other tournament highlights include winning the 1992
Atlanta Ruggerfest, qualifying for the 1993 Eastern Rugby Sevens
Championship Tournament, a couple of second and third places
at D.C. Ruggerfest social division. Of course, most importantly,
we are two-time defending NCRU champions (1998 and 1999). |
 --Contributed By: Barb Lipes (An Original Member of Eno River Rugby) |
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