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Latest revision as of 01:45, 11 October 2018


The Main Portal

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Welcome to the USAFA Rugby Alumni wiki, the place where you can find out about the history of rugby at the USAF Academy as told by the players, coaches, and fans who made the USAFA Rugby program what it is today. This wiki was designed for you to contribute and help us collect memories of all those great times we all had while being part of USAFA Rugby. This is a site dedicated to preserving the history of the Academy Rugby teams.

(If you get to a page where you have information or photos that should be included, please contact HarryFLaws@gmail.com to update those pages)

Featured Links

Click here to go to the past and current schedules and results for all Men's Seasons - Women's Seasons

Click here for the post season championship records of Men's Team Awards - Women's Team Awards

Click here for the results of individual accolades for the year: Men's Awards - Women's Awards

Click here to see our Rugby Honor Roll for players who have attained Professional, national, service, All American or local select side rugby honors.

Click here to see our Distinguished Rugby Graduate Honor Roll for those who have gone on to become General Officers, were Thunderbirds, or distinguished themselves in some other professional way.

Click here for the Story of how our teams got started.

Click to see the history of our patches, to include the history of the alumni patches.

Click here for our USAFA Rugby Memorial Wall for a list of Rugby grads who have died as a result of hostile action during a state of military conflict.

Click here for a list and bios of our AFA Head Coaches

Click here for a history of the Men's Team Jerseys or Women's Team Jerseys

Click here for a tally of the Service Academy Scores

Click here to see the a list of the current AOG Rugby Alumni Affinity Group Board and How the Board Originated

Click here for our Portal:Hall of Fame for those select few who have made significant rugby contributions.

Click here to see an historic rugby tradition that fell out of favor in politically correct times, the Zulu Warrior

Click here for details of the fall of 2018 alumni party for a Celebration of 50 years of Club Rugby at the Academy

Click here for a list of graduate offspring who play rugby! AFA Rugby Families


If you are interested in getting on the alumni mailing list, contact Harry Laws at HarryFLaws@gmail.com

Click if you are interested in gifting to the teams - gifting information

Follow the current team here: [1] Facebook page [2] Instagram @zoomierugby Twitter @ZoomieRugby UTube [3] Women's alumni Facebook page here: [4]

Alumni Events and Match Results

The Start of the Alumni Group began with mailing Newsletters as the mode of communication. To see the Newsletter Collection from 1972 to 1994, as well as current emailed updates, click here -> Alumni Newsletters

Click here to see the one attempt in 1985 (before the widespread use of word processors) to put our history on one place, the AFA Rugby Yearbook

Click here to see a list of Alumni Matches and Match Awards

In 2018, the Alumni Board organized a Celebration of 50 years of Club Rugby at the Academy, and kicked off a fund raising campaign to ensure sufficient and perpetual resourcing for both teams.





Things you can do

  • If you'd like to contribute to the USAFA Rugby Alumni wiki, please click here to request an account.
  • Already have an account and just getting started with the USAFA Rugby Alumni wiki? Check out the FAQs.
  • Give a special thanks to Jim Woessner (72) who suggested at an alumni match that we ought to keep a history of each team by class, which started me hording all sorts of details and are now being loaded on to this site.