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Rachel Gaines
Nickname: Gaines
Position: Utility Back
College Team: Connecticut College Women's Rugby Football Club
Hometown: Belmont, MA
Rugby Experience: Rachel started playing in 2006 with CCWRFC and has been a part of Chuck River since the summer of '07
Greatest Rugby Moment: Beating North Shore to win the Plate Championship at NERFUs in 2009 in brand new bright orange jerseys.
Favorite Quote: "To Punters!" Erin Gillespie
What's the first thing you think when you wake up on a post-rugby Sunday morning: Is it Saturday again yet?
Anna Schrekinger
Position: Flanker
Nickname: Brownie, Schrek
Hometown: Belmont, MARugby Experience: One awesome season with River
Greatest Rugby Moment: Running 10 yards in the wrong direction then running 20 yards in the right direction again Boston Bs
Favorite Quote: "Stick it up their *%#^@!" - Mike Roy Jehanne Junguenet
Position: Prop
Nickname: Tweedle, Juggs, [open to suggestions]
Hometown: Watchung/Green Brook, NJ
College Team: Connecticut College Camels WRFC
Rugby Experience: 4 years at ol' Conn Coll, 3 Seasons with Charles River
Greatest Rugby Moment: Beating North Shore in the '09 NERFU DII Bowl Championship Match
Favorite Quote: "THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID" -Michael Scott or "Whoso would be a [wo]man, must be a non-conformist, and preferably play in the pack." -Ralph Waldo Emerson What's the first thing you think when you wake up on a post-rugby Sunday morning: Oof! Worth it.Jennifer Van Kuren
Position: Flyhalf
Nickname: Jenn
Hometown: Newtown, PA
College Team: WITWRFC
Rugby Experience: WITRFC '03, WITWRFC '03-'07, CRWRFC '05-present
Greatest Rugby Moment: (1) Going undefeated in college after only being a team for 2 years (2) Game ending grub kick off the opposing try line (while completely inebriated in Balls 2 the Walls tournament consolation game to stop the other team from scoring...
Favorite Quote: "You will cry. You will laugh. You will sweat. You will freeze. If you want to be good you will work harder than you ever thought you could. You play for the sheer love of it. You will get stronger, faster, and fitter. You make unlikely and wonderful friends. You will learn more every time you play - and some of it will even be about the game..."Alicia Evangelista
Position: Prop
Nickname: (insert funny name here)
College Team: University of Virginia WRFC
Hometown: Guilford, CT
Rugby Experience: 6 years
Greatest Rugby Moment: The second the whistle blew when we beat Chico State to go to the DI Final Fours - or every opponents scrum we've ever won.
Favorite Quote:an original haiku by Alicia Evangelista:Rugby: just a sport?Rugby is a way of life.Full contact. True love.Alex Schmidt
Position: Utility back
Nickname: Alex
Hometown: Wayne, NJ
College Team: Northeastern University Lady Maddogs
Rugby Experience: 1998-2002 NU Lady Maddogs, 2005-present Charles River Rugby
Greatest Rugby Moment: Fall 2001 defeating Bodowin; Winning the DILL
Favorite Quote: "C has both parts, and it looks like this"Chrissy Andronico
Position: 8-man
Nickname: C, C-Monkey, C-$
Hometown: Ashland, MA
College Team: Northeastern University Lady Maddogs
Rugby Experience: 10 years
Greatest Rugby Moment: Undeafeated season '00, Beating Bowdoin '01, Undefeated season '07; Being with the "All Stars"
Favorite Quote: "Win, lose or collapse on the field, at least then you know exactly who you are."Erin Gillespie
Position: Scrumhalf
Nickname: Eronie Malonie
Hometown: Helena, Montana
College Team: Northeastern Lady MADDOGS
Rugby Experience: 9 years
Greatest Rugby Moment: College - Beating Bowdoin '01, Club - Winning CRWRFC DII tourney
Favorite Quote: "Let's start a rumor. Let's start a rumor that C has both parts. And it looks like this..." - Alex SchmidtDana Gulick
Position: Lock, Flanker
Nickname: Shim
Hometown: Warren Hills, NJ
College Team: Rutgers
Rugby Experience:
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Favorite Quote:Kara McAuliffe
Position: Lock, utility
Nickname: Kara
Hometown: Clifton Park, NY
College Team: Northeastern
Rugby Experience: 6 years
Greatest Rugby Moment: CRWRFC going from having only 5 or 6 for a 7's tournament, to an undefeated '07 season WITH TOUCH JUDGES AND SUBS!! It's been a long trip.
Favorite Quote: "Chalers River NEVER loses a social!!" Lisa Natalicchio
Position: Hooker
Nickname: Natty Lisa or Lisa Natty
Hometown: Silver Spring, MD
College Team: JMU
Rugby Experience: Four years between college and club teams
Greatest Rugby Moment: Every time it all clicks
Favorite Quote: "It's the hard that makes it great"Linda Morris
Position: Wing
Nickname: Oprah
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Favorite Quote:Alia Sullivan
Position: Wing
Nickname: Sully
Hometown: Middleborough, MA
College Team: Simmons College
Rugby Experience: One season with Charles Rivah
Greatest Rugby Moment: Playing in my first game on a Tuesday night against North Shore.
Favorite Quote: "Milk was a bad choice." Stephanie Wooler
Position: Back
Nickname: Steph
Hometown: Marsworth, UK
College Team: Hertford College, Oxford University/Rugby Club Paris XV
Rugby Experience: Lots of sevens, on and off starting in college, with a season of XVs whilst I was still in my teens... I'm now 28. :-(
Greatest Rugby Moment: Getting my Varsity jersey for the Oxford Panthers (2nds).
Favorite Quote: (following England's 15-13 victory over New Zealand in 2003, during which England's forwards successfully defended a scrum with 6 forwards against 8 due to yellow cards) Interviewer to Martin Johnson: "Martin, what was going through your head during that 6-man scrum on the tryline?"
Martin Johnson: "My spine" My former rugby coach: "Eat my try, EAT IT." What's the first thing you think when you wake up on a post-rugby Sunday morning: Tea will make the pain go away Jenny Forshner
Nickname: JFo
Position: Back
College Team: Saint Joseph's University
Hometown: Natick, Ma
Rugby Experience: 4 years at St. Joe's, Summer 7's for various teams, Charles River Fall 2009 - present
Greatest Rugby Moment: Any time a play is succesfully executed and ends in a try. No better feeling.
Favorite Quote:
"All for one and one for all Together we stand, together we fall And in the end, we win them all All for one and one for all" What's the first thing you think when you wake up on a post-rugby Sunday morning: This is so stupid, why the hell did I do this to myself? KC Root
Nickname: Kace, Root
Position: Back
College Team: Bates College Women's Rugby Club
Hometown: Fryeburg, MA
Rugby Experience: Bates College Rugby
Greatest Rugby Moment: Literally getting thrown into my own team's try zone by the opposition...my right quad still isn't the same.
Favorite Quote: Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or
disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying “yes” begins things. Saying “yes” is how things grow. Saying “yes” leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say "yes."
- Stephen Colbert
What's the first thing you think when you wake up on a post-rugby Sunday morning: Range of motion? Hah! That was AWESOME. Nicole Bure
Nickname: Chabooz
Position: Prop
College Team: Northeastern University Rugby
Hometown: Closter, NJ
Rugby Experience: Northeastern Universtiry 2002-2007
Greatest Rugby Moment:
Favorite Quote:
What's the first thing you think when you wake up on a post-rugby Sunday morning: I ask myself why I tortured my body the day before.Maegan Hoover
Nickname: Hoover
Position: Fullback
College Team: Connecticut College WRFC
Hometown: Newton, MA
Rugby Experience: 2004-2008 Connecticut College; 2008 - present Charles River
Greatest Rugby Moment:
My first full-contact practice in college when we ran through a tackling drill and I realized that laying someone out was not only completely acceptable but greatly encouraged in the rugby world. I was physically attacking someone and no one else seemed to care. Quite the opposite, I was getting high fives in support of this behavior. My life has never been the same.
Favorite Quote: "We do not remember days, we remember moments." -Cesare Pavese
What's the first thing you think when you wake up on a post-rugby Sunday morning: "Whyyyyyyyyy?"
Katy Wilks
Nickname: Wilks
Position: Winger
College Team: Williams College RFC
Hometown: New London, NH
Rugby Experience: Williams College RFC 2003-2007; New England Select Side 2006-2007; Charles River 2008-present
Greatest Rugby Moment: Joining Charles River and realizing I have grown permanent rat whiskers!
Favorite Quote: "I'll stay for one more beer..." -Me
What's the first thing you think when you wake up on a post-rugby Sunday morning: How am I going to wriggle out of this bed?
Amanda Bernasconi
Nickname: (None yet)
Position: Flanker
College Team: Syracuse University WRFC
Hometown: Braintree, MA
Rugby Experience: Syracuse University; Charles River
Greatest Rugby Moment: Every moment is a great one
Favorite Quote: "Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?" Bob Marley
What's the first thing you think when you wake up on a post-rugby Sunday morning: I'm not sure I can get up
Shannon Brooks
Nickname: Brooksie
Position: Hooker, Flanker
College Team: WPI
Hometown: Walpole, MA
Rugby Experience: 3 years WPI
Greatest Rugby Moment: Pretty much every time an opposing scrum is won
Favorite Quote: "In our country, true teams rarely exist....social barriers and personal ambitions have reduced athletes to dissolute cliques or individuals thrown together for mutual profit. Yet these rugby players, with their muddied, cracked bodies, are struggling to hold on to a sense of humanity that we in America have lost and are unlikely to regain. The game may only be to move a ball forward on a dirt field, but the task can be accomplished with an unshackled joy and its' memories will be a permanent delight. The Women who play on that rugby field are more alive than too many of us will ever be. The foolish emptiness we think we perceive in their own existence is only our own." ~ Victor Cahn
What's the first thing you think when you wake up on a post-rugby Sunday morning: Why can't every day be a rugby day?
Anne Beaumont
Position: Lock
Nickname: Wales
College Team: University of Hull/Vermont Law School
Hometown: Ruthin, Wales
Rugby Experience: 3 years of Rugby League at University; then moved to the dark side of Rugby Union when I started playing for VT Law. Charles River since 2008
Greatest Rugby Moment: NERFU's 2009 final whistle against North Shore, victory is OURS!
Favorite Quote: "Saturday's a rugby day"
What's the first thing you think when you wake up on a post-rugby Sunday morning: Why isn't it Saturday again?
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Position: Lock
Nickname: Wales
College Team: University of Hull/Vermont Law School
Hometown: Ruthin, Wales
Rugby Experience: 3
years of Rugby League at University; then moved to the dark side of
Rugby Union when I started playing for VT Law. Charles River since 2008
Greatest Rugby Moment: NERFU's 2009 final whistle against North Shore, victory is OURS!
Favorite Quote: "Saturday's a rugby day"
What's the first thing you think when you wake up on a post-rugby Sunday morning: Why isn't it Saturday again?
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