Rugby is a grueling, demanding game. Like most tough sports, if you’re a player, you gotta love it. Meghan Frechette, a Keene State senior, has gotta love it more than most, because she came up with the idea to play continuously for 24 hours to raise money to fight breast cancer and get her team’s name in the Guinness Book of World Records. The Owls will meet the women from the Williams College rugby team at 8 a.m., Sunday, April 24, at Cole Field on the Williams College campus.
So come on down to Williamstown, Mass., any time between 8 a.m. that Sunday and 8 a.m. on Monday (April 25) to cheer on these hardy souls, support Tackle for a Cure, and be part of a record-setting event. Can’t make the game? Use “comments” to drop them a line of encouragement. It will sure come in handy!
As an original member of the founding team of Rugby at KSC and playing into my 40s for Concord, Amoskeag, and Boston Old Boys and defying ol’ Coach Butcher who denied us the use of the soccer fields, I am wroth to find once again the “fairer” sex (gender) diluting the power of what used to be a male dominated game.