Florida Rugby Football Union
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The Florida Rugby Union is the Local Area Union (LAU) for rugby union
teams in the U.S. state of Florida
. The FRU is part of the USA Rugby South
, one of the seven Territorial Area Unions (TAUs) that comprise USA Rugby
. The Florida Rugby Union has four divisions: Men's, Women's, Collegiate Men's, and Collegiate Women's, as well as an intramural high school
division.
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
teams in the U.S. state of Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
. The FRU is part of the USA Rugby South
USA Rugby South
The USA Rugby South is the Territorial Union for rugby union teams playing in the Southern United States. It is one of seven TU's that govern specific regions of USA Rugby.-LAU's:...
, one of the seven Territorial Area Unions (TAUs) that comprise USA Rugby
USA Rugby
USA Rugby is the national governing body for the sport of rugby union in the United States. It is divided into seven territorial Unions: Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Northeast, Pacific Coast, Southern California, South, and West...
. The Florida Rugby Union has four divisions: Men's, Women's, Collegiate Men's, and Collegiate Women's, as well as an intramural high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
division.
Men's clubs
There are currently fifteen registered clubs in the Men's division.- Bay Area PelicansBay Area PelicansThe Bay Area Pelicans Rugby Football Club is a men's rugby club in the Tampa Bay Area. The team was founded in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1977....
- Boca RatonBoca Raton Rugby Football ClubBoca Raton Rugby Football Club is a rugby union side located in Boca Raton, Florida, USA. The club was founded in the fall of 1974 by Alan Seader, a veteran rugger from Portland, Maine...
- Brevard Old Red Eye
- Daytona Beach
- Fort Lauderdale
- Gainesville RFC
- Jacksonville Rugby Football ClubJacksonville Rugby Football ClubJacksonville Rugby Football Club , known as the Ospreys, are a men's rugby union team based in Jacksonville, Florida. They are members of the Florida Rugby Union, the organizational body for rugby in the state of Florida, and currently play in USA Rugby Division II. The club was founded in...
http://www.jaxrugby.org/ - Miami Rugby ClubMiami rugby clubMiami Rugby Club is a rugby union club in Miami, Florida. According to rankings in Rugby Magazine, Miami list’s amongst the top five clubs in the Southeastern United States. They have won the Florida state championship regularly...
- Miami Tridents
- Naples RFC
- Orlando RFC
- Sarasota Saracens
- Tampa Sharks
- Tampa Bay Krewe
- Treasure Coast
Women's clubs
There are currently five registered clubs in the Women's division.Collegiate Men's clubs
There are currently twelve registered clubs in the Collegiate Men's division.- Ave Maria UniversityAve Maria UniversityAve Maria University or AMU is a private Catholic university in southwest Florida, United States, founded in 2003. The university moved to its permanent campus, situated in the planned town of Ave Maria, east of Naples, Florida, in August 2007...
- Florida Atlantic University
- Eckerd College
- Florida International University
- Florida State University
- University of Florida
- University of North Florida
- University of South Florida
- University of Miami Rugby Football
- University of Central Florida
- Embry Riddle
- Lynn UniversityLynn UniversityLynn University is a private, non-profit university in Boca Raton, Florida, founded in 1962.The university currently hosts students from 40 states and 90 nations...
Collegiate Women's clubs
There are currently eight registered clubs in the Collegiate Women's division.- University of Florida
- Florida State University
- Florida Atlantic UniversityFlorida Atlantic UniversityFlorida Atlantic University, also referred to as FAU or Florida Atlantic, is a public, coeducational, research university located in , United States. The university has six satellite campuses located in the Florida cities of Dania Beach, Davie, Fort Lauderdale, Jupiter, Port St. Lucie, and in Fort...
- University of MiamiUniversity of MiamiThe University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...
- University of South FloridaUniversity of South FloridaThe University of South Florida, also known as USF, is a member institution of the State University System of Florida, one of the state's three flagship universities for public research, and is located in Tampa, Florida, USA...
- University of Central Florida
- Florida International UniversityFlorida International UniversityFlorida International University is an American public research university in metropolitan Miami, Florida, in the United States, with its main campus in University Park...
- Eckerd CollegeEckerd CollegeEckerd College is a private 4-year coeducational liberal arts college at the southernmost tip of St. Petersburg, Florida, in the Tampa Bay metropolitan area. The college is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.- Campus :...