...9-and-under and 11-and-under boys and girls, learning and playing rugby together
Youth touch rugby, which for is 11-and-unders and 9-and-unders, is a coed sport. Boys and girls play together on the same team.
Our experience over six summers is that boys and girls play very well together, with team leaders emerging from both boys and girls, with equal respect from their opposites. The coaching staff has and will continue to foster this, and we have found this to be easy to accomplish.
Tackle rugby, however, is gender-specific, with our league’s regulation and those of higher ogranizations prohibiting girls and boys to play tackle together. Fort Hunt Rugby fielded its first girls tackle side in 2010, formed a girls high school team in Spring 2011 and a girls summer tackle team again in 2011, and is looking to continue this in 2012.
