Kansas City Blues Rugby Club

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Next Blues Game: 3/3/12
D3: KC Rogues (1:00pm)
Bourke Field - Rockhurst University
54th Street and Troost, KCMO 64110

D1: Jayhawks RFC (6:30 PM)
Sporting Kansas City Training Facility at Swope Park
6301 Lewis Rd, KCMO 64110

Last Blues Game: 10/29/11
D1: 67-7 Win v Denver Rugby
D3: 27-14 Win v KC Rogues

Spring Practice Details

Training resumes January 17th

Tuesdays & Thursdays
8:30pm - 10:30pm

Sporting Kansas City Training Facility at Swope Park
6301 Lewis Rd KCMO

New players welcome!
Click HERE for details on how to join

2011-2012
West D1 Northern Conference
Conference Standings
Split fall/spring 6-game season

Club	W	L	T	BP	Pts
Glendale	2	0	0	2	12
KC Blues	2	1	0	2	10
Denver RFC	1	2	0	1	5
Boulder	0	3	0	0	0

2011-2012
D3 HOA Conference
Conference Standings
Split fall/spring 7-game season

Club W L T BP Pts

Wichita 4 1 0 4 20

Springfield 3 2 0 3 15

Northland 2 2 0 3 12

KC Blues 3 2 0 4 16

KC Rogues 2 2 0 2 10

Arkansas 2 0 0 1 9

Topeka 1 4 0 2 6

Carnivores 0 4 0 0 0

2009-2010 Final Standings
2010-2011 Final Standings

Blues Youth Rugby Programs

KC Junior Blues U19 Team
Aquinas Saints RFC High School Team
Olathe Gentlemen U19 RFC
Blue Valley U19 RFC
Shawnee Mission East Lancers U19 RFC
DeValley U19 RFC

Blues With International Experience
It's a pleasure for any club to be able to place its members on the national team. We have also been able to raise the standard of play through the example set by national team players from other countries

United States
Hal Edwards - Reserve ('76-'84)
Gary Shull - Cougars ('76)
Kirk Miles - 2 caps ('82)
Fred Paoli - 20 caps ('82-'91)
Frank Kennedy - USA 'A' (1988)
Maika Sika - 17 caps ('93-'97)
Tim Kluempers - 5 caps ('96-'01)
United States 7s
Doug Brown ('99-'00)
Steve Robke ('99-'00)
Michael Skahan ('99-'00)
Tommy Saunders ('10)
Collegiate All-Americans
Joe Fridkin - UMKC ('91)
Steve Robke - Kansas State ('91-'92)
Tony Vontz - Cal ('03-'04)
Sean Foley - Truman State ('04-'05)
United States U19
Chuck DiMartino ('97-'98)
Jesse Cuavas ('98)
Tony Vontz ('99)
Joe Orscheln ('00)
Dustin Orscheln ('02)
Robert Reintjes ('02)
Mike Kelly ('04)
United States U18
Casey Cummings ('08)
Johann Swanepoel ('09)
Rick Korvick ('11)
United States U17
Casey Cummings ('07)
Peru 15s
Pablo Carrera ('99-'07)
Fiji 7s
Jonetani Vulaono ('99-'01)
Kenya 7s and 15s
Arnold Odera ('06-'09)

Blues From Overseas
Over the years the Blues have had the honor of hosting many players from overseas, continually welcoming elite foreign-based players into the Blues family in an effort to not only raise the standard of play within the Club, but also to give those players an opportunity to exeprience life and rugby in the Midwestern United States

Australia
Jim Crompton - center - 2007
Joey Shirley - lock - 2007-2009
Denmark
Jan Andersen - flyhalf - 1997
Tim Paulsen - flanker - 1997
England
Geraint Hill - lock - 2005
Fiji
Sami Rakatia - center - 2010-2011
Ireland
Matt O'Connor - scrumhalf - 1967-1968
Steve Morris - flyhalf - 1980-1981
Kenya
Arnold Odera - flanker - 2008-2009
New Zealand
David Gower - flanker - 2003
Glenn Jenkins - coach - 1991
Glenn McIntosh - Number 8 - 2008
Bob Telfer - coach - 2001-2003
South Africa
Ron Colin - coach - 1994
Sean Colin - flyhalf - 1993-1994
Fouche du Toit - flanker - 2005-2006
Johann Kapp - coach - 2004
Marno Nel - center - 2005
Wales
Eddie Hunt - coach - 1987
Eddie Hunt Jr. - center - 1987-1990
Michael Hunt - center - 1987-1990
Keith Lee - scrumhalf - 1987-1990
Dai Lowery - hooker - 1986-1987
Sean O'Brian - flanker - 1987-1990

See the Blues 2009 feature on MetroSports!

Prospective Player Recruiting Event
Saturday January 28th
8:00pm in the Upper Level of the Granfalloon on the Plaza
608 Ward Parkway KCMO
All interested athletes are invited to join us for complimentary drinks and food to meet the team and learn more about the KC Blues

Club Winter Annual General Meeting
Wednesday February 1st
7:00pm in the basement of The Brooksider
6330 Brookside Plaza KCMO

Blues News

Blues Team Up With CrossFit on 18th For Off-Season Training

The Blues have teamed up with Club sponsor CrossFit on 18th, downtown Kansas City’s biggest and most exciting CrossFit Affiliate, for off-season training this winter. At CrossFit on 18th the Blues will get individual coaching in a team setting, training together at scheduled sessions twice a week for 8 weeks in preparation for the Spring 2012 rugby season. CrossFit is simply defined as Constant Varied Functional Movements performed at High Intensity. CrossFit offers a fitness that prepares you for occurrences in everyday life, and for Elite Athletic competition.

Any Blues Club members interested in participating can contact Brian English for details.

For more on Crossfit on 18th, visit http://www.crossfiton18th.com/

Blues Close Fall Season With Pair Of Key Wins

The Blues ended the first half of their 2011-2012 season with a pair of victories on Saturday October 29th, exacting some measure of revenge along the way to close out a successful fall campaign at the Sporting Kansas City Training Complex at Swope Park. The Reserves played the opening act at 5:00pm, defeating the KC Rogues in a Division 3 Heart of America Conference match-up by a score of 27-14 in a highly entertaining game. In the evening’s main event at 7:00pm, the first side throttled the visiting Denver Highlanders in a Division 1 West-North Conference match-up, winning 67-7. The wins put the Blues Reserve side's D3 Conference record at 3-2 (5-2 overall) with 2 games still to play in the spring, and in 3rd place in the 5-team D1 Conference with a 2-1 record (5-2 overall), and 5 D1 Conference games still to go this spring.