Monthly Program Review Status Summary

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The Palmetto States
rugby revolution
South Carolina High School Rugby

Mission Commence and foster high school rugby
through a positive culture that honors the game,
endorses character counts, and promotes safety.
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Expanding South Carolina High School Rugby July
12th, 2007 Jeff Smolka Ruppert Baird SCHSR
Commissioner SPUR Conference Commissioner
Lugoff-Elgin Head Rugby Coach SCHSR / SPUR
Executive Committee
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• South Carolina High School Rugby
• Accomplishments
• 2006 registered as associate member of Palmetto
  LAU
• SCHSR By Laws written and approved
• Officers installed
• Commissioner Jeff Smolka
• Treasurer Ruppert Baird
• Administrative officer Mike Artlip
• SCHSR Functions
• SCHSR Playoffs and Championship
• Annual AGM moderate of SCHSR Conf.
• SCHSR By-Laws maintenance
• All Star support
• Growth and expansion

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South Carolina High School Rugby Regional
Conferences Plan to build consistent with
Football Regions
SCRUM Savannah River Carolinas Rugby Union
Members
ROCC Rugby Of Coastal Carolinas
PAC Patriot Athletic Club
SPARC South Carolina Piedmont Athletic Rugby Club
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SCHSR alignment with Regional Conferences.

• SCHSR(2006)
• Conf Commissioner Jeff Smolka
• Treasurer Ruppert Baird
• Admin officer Mike Artlip

• SPUR (2007)
• Conf Commish Jeff Smolka
• Treasurer Ruppert Baird
• Admin officer Mike Artlip
• Regional 501C3 organization
• Matrix leading to SCHSR playoffs
• Regional CIPP club for High Schools
• Charge team by players ( 15)
• Charge each team 100 to be member
• Negotiate conference purchasing
• Specific High Schools in Conference
• Lugoff Elgin
• Spring Valley
• Gilbert
• Irmo
• Sumter
• 2008 Expansion
• Lewisville

• PAC and SPARC (2008)
• Conf Commish Identify 1 for e ach conf
• Treasurer Identify 1 for e ach conf
• Admin officer Identify 1 for e ach conf
• Regional 501C3 organization
• Matrix leading to SCHSR playoffs
• Regional CIPP club for High Schools
• Charge team by players ( 15)
• Charge each team 100 to be member
• Negotiate conference purchasing
• Specific High Schools - tbd

• SCRUM and ROCC (2009)
• Conf Commish Identify 1 for e ach conf
• Treasurer Identify 1 for e ach conf
• Admin officer Identify 1 for e ach conf
• Regional 501C3 organization
• Matrix leading to SCHSR playoffs
• Regional CIPP club for High Schools
• Charge team by players ( 15)
• Charge each team 100 to be member
• Negotiate conference purchasing
• High Schools - tbd

• Conference Expectations
• Commissioner attend annual AGM
• Conf. votes depend on of paying teams
• 4 team minimum to form conference
• Conferences pay SCHSR 100 per team
• Other particulars SCHSR By-Laws

• HS Clubs without conferences
• 2007 Join SPUR
• 2008 on Join closest geographic conference

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SPUR or Regional Conferences alignment with high
school club(s)

• 2008 SPARC Expansion ( Need schools and Coach
  name)
• School 1 / Coach
• School 2 / Coach
• School 3 / Coach
• School 4 / Coach
• School 5 / Coach
• 2008 PACC Expansion
• School 1 / Coach
• School 2 / Coach
• School 3 / Coach
• School 4 / Coach
• School 5 / Coach
• 2008 SPUR Expansion
• Lexington HS / Chad Ellidge
• Pelion / Joel MItchell
• Lewisville / Sean Reen
• maybe Dreher

• Conference Expectations from each HS Club
• Club at high school Use Bryant Model
• If not enough interest at HS, pair with 2nd HS
  until it expands
• Form club according to local HS / school district
  rules
• Have written By-laws including Code of Conduct
• Participate in SPUR Matrix ( or regional conf)
• Assign General manager
• Assign Club treasurer
• At least 1, preferably 2 Coaches CIPP-Background
  Check
• 2 team Touch Judges
• HS join SPUR (or appropriate regional conference)
  
• Each player pays to CIPP with SPUR (or regional
  conf)
• Charge members 100 per member includes
• Depending on team, player to get sox, shorts,
  t-shirt
• Team jerseys owned by team.
• 15 per member to SPUR ( or regional conf)
• Friday Night Field Set up
• Portion goes to 100 / team for SPUR (or regional
  conf)
• Admin costs to SCHSR

• HS Clubs without conferences
• 2007 Join SPUR
• 2008 on Join closest geographic conference

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Club Budgeting considerations
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SCHSR /SPUR High School recruiting model

• Read and follow the Bryant model
• http//www.thsrugby.com/leagueinfo/Bryant.htm
• Set up face to face time with a school
  administrator
• Rugby should have access to students
• Similar to ROTC or class ring people
• specific schools may have a club sign up day
  go for it !

• Best to set up a table during the lunch periods
  in cafeteria
• TV with DVD / VCR of rugby -
• High quality match film (international matches
  best)
• Couple of rugby balls ( truly a magic bean)
• Few Jerseys
• Information sheets to take down kids (name,
  phone, e-mail, yr in school)
• SCHSR has template we can forward and is on
  yahoo page
• http//sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/SCHSR/
• SPUR has created a table curtain to present
  professional appearance
• Banner that says simply Play Rugby
• 1 Information package to hand out are helpful
• Have a time set for a follow up parents meeting
  and location

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SPUR recruiting model at high schools

• Parent follow up meeting
• Introduction (10 min )
• who are you and what are you trying to achieve
• Safety / Due Diligence (10 min)
• IRB, USA Rugby, South, Palmetto LAU
• Safety statistics and insurance CIPP players
• Coaching background checks
• History and Overview of Sport (15 min)
• Question and Answer session with parents (15 min)
• Next Steps (10 min)
• Identify who/when officers, faculty advisors,
• Assign duty to write club By laws

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• History 2007 SCHSR Matrix
• Started SPUR conference
• Plan to start with 5 teams. 2 folded.
• Each team played one another and all played in 2
  Jamborees
• Started with 410 to 412 to 415 to 320 to 230
  match time.
• Used Patton Stadium at Fort Jackson for Friday
  night matches
• Dec 8-10 USAR Youth Conference of Games in
  Nashville Tenn (encouraged)
• Dec 16 830 USAR Level 1 Referee Clinic in
  Charleston at Deas Hall, The Citadel (encouraged)
  
• Jan 6/7 SCHSR Coaching Conference in Columbia
• Required for new coaches and to recertify at
  least every 2 years thereafter
• Jan 20 SCHSR sponsoring USAR Touch Judge
  course Instructor Phil Dent
• Level 1 only 20, add Level 23 50 total
• Jan 27 Player clinic to review rugby positions
  at stations. Held after Olde Grey vs Raleigh

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• 2008 SCHSR Matrix
• Plan of Record Anticipate SPUR, PAC, SPARC
  conference
• Current plan to start with conferences with 4
  teams and be flexible to expansion
• With 4 teams, each will play twice or up to 8
  matches
• Recommend conferences have rotating 2 pitch
  complexes for Friday night matches.
• Presidents day tourney in Feb for SCHSR?
• Will keep open weekends to allow expansion team
  participation
• Sept 22 Palmetto Academy coaches conference
  (recommended, but optional)
• Jan 5/6 SCHSR Coaching Conference in Columbia
• Required for new coaches Recertify at least
  every 2 years thereafter
• Jan 19 SCHSR sponsoring USAR Touch Judge
  course
• Level 1 only 20, add Level 23 50 total
• Instructor Phil Dent
• Jan 26 HS Rugby clinics in Charleston /
  Greenville
• SPUR teams split and cover to introduce games
  from HS to HS
• Feb 1 Rugby Jamboree for each conference
• 10 minute halves
• Rotate teams throughout evening

SPUR may start a week earlier as they have
played a season, allowing for more expansion team
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Is rugby a safe sport for Americas youth? by
Lyle J. Micheli, MD Summary of www.usarugby.org/p
laying/youth/isrugbysafeforyouth.pdf Author
Lyle J. Micheli, MD Past president of the
American College of Sports Medicine Chairman
Massachusetts Governors Council on Physical
Fitness and Sports. Author of over 200
scholarly journal articles on sports medicine
First-ever published study of rugby injuries
in the United States
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• Is rugby a safe sport for Americas youth?
• Summary of report by Lyle J. Micheli, MD
• Support efforts to establish rugby teams in
  American high schools
• Studies provide empirical evidence to address
  concerns about rugbys relative safety.
• Rugby could not be as popular, played in over
  100 countries, amongst so many different cultures
  if it were dangerous!
• In fact, risk of rugby injury is relatively low
  compared to embraced American sports
• such as football, ice hockey, and lacrosse
• a fact borne-out by numerous studies assessing
  the risk of sports injury
• Reasons quite straightforward to those of us who
  study sports medicine.

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• Is rugby a safe sport for Americas youth?
• Summary of report by Lyle J. Micheli, MD
• The main reason rugby players have a relatively
  low risk of injury compared to football players
  is paradoxical
• rugby players dont wear protective equipment
• Rugby player dont have the same disregard for
  the safety of his or her head, neck, and
  shoulders when tackling or trying to break
  through a tackle.
• The other reason is that unlike football, rugby
  is a game of possession, not yardage. Rugby
  players dont tackle by driving through the
  numbers,
• Players are taught and must use their arms to
  wrap the opponent in tackle.
• No blocking in rugby. Players without the ball
  dont get hit when theyre not expecting it.

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• Is rugby a safe sport for Americas youth?
• Summary of report by Lyle J. Micheli, MD
• Injury rates
• Compared to football, the incidence of injury in
  rugby is quite low
• 10 percent in American club rugby compared to 52
  percent in NCAA college football
• Results published in the peer-reviewed American
  Journal of Sports Medicine.
• Subsequent studies have supported my results.
• The scientific conclusion we must reach
• Rugby is not as injurious as other NCAA status
  contact and collision sports
• Rugby is a relatively safe sport to our young
  men and women.

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South Carolina High School Rugby Program Fund
Raiser
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Whole Page 500
Sponsor________________
Sponsor Contact___________
Rugby Club____________
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Deadline to make it in 2007 SCHSR Program
January 22, 2007. Need Logos and Name/ wording.
Please make checks or payments to SPUR Inc. which
is a 501C3 organization.
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South Carolina High School Rugby Team Schedule
(11x17) Fund Raiser
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Sponsor________________
Sponsor Contact___________
Rugby Club____________
Deadline to make it in 2007 SCHSR Program
January 22, 2007. Need Logos and Name/ wording.
Please make checks or payments to SPUR Inc. which
is a 501C3 organization.