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2004 Spring Men Portal

We went the whole year undefeated and were ranked No1 in the Nation the whole year. Had a great game against No. 2 BYU, beating them in regular season. Had a tour organized to Scotland in preparation for the final 4, but the senior management at USAFA veto'd the trip last second (literally) so we landed up going to Scottsdale AZ. Played men's teams there and won all of them.

We won regionals, and sweet 16. We were winning comfortably against Cal Poly SLO 35 to 18 with 10 mins left, but lost through a passage of play that was unbelievable, mostly in luck for Cal Poly. After the game the coaching staff approached a stunned Coach and declared there was absolutely nothing he could have done as a coach to prevent that from happening. Drop kicks hitting the cross bar and literally falling over, kicks that lead to try's that had bounces that had never before been seen.

Coach Stephen was voted one of the Eastern Rockies all Star coaches and was in charge of the team with Rich (last name?) from Wyoming. 13-14 of the Eastern Rockies team consisted of USAFA guys. We won the all star tournament going undefeated.

In the words of Coach Stephen: "Looking back at the USAFA experience, it was truly an honor to coach these kids. Having seen Army, Navy, etc, the USAFA boys in every sense were the cream of the crop."

Team Record

A Side Record

Date	Opponent	Score	Notes
<date>	Denver Barbos	20-40
<date>	U New Mexico	34-17
<date>	New Mexico State	68-3
<date>	BYU	39-31
<date>	Denver Harlequins	55-28
<date>	U Nebraska	46-8
<date>	Tempe Old Boys	39-17	Spring Break
<date>	U NM ?		Spring Break
<date>	U Arizona	101-5	Spring Break
24 April	Navy	won!	Took 3 shoot outs to break a 5-5 tie
<date>	Wyoming	39-13
<date>	Texas A&M	53-0
<date>	Tennessee	71-10	Sweet Sixteen
<date>	Ohio State	16-13	Round of 8
May	Cal Poly	32-35	National Collegiate Semi-Final, Ts by Steinhiser, Riedesel, Latham, Dean, Lemay and 2Cs and PK by Steinhiser. Cal Poly went on to wollop Cal, 46-24
May	<opponent>	won	Third place in National Finals held at Stanford
Season Record	17-5

B Side Record

Date	Opponent	Score	Notes
<date>	U Colorado	35-7	? Fall Game?
<date>	Navy	25-15	?Fall Game
<date>	Wyoming	53-10
<date>	CSU	52-0	? Fall game
<date>	Denver Barbarians	8-28	? Fall game
<date>	New Mexico Tech	56-5
<date>	Denver Harlequins	48-5
<date>	Tempe Old Boys	28-21
Season Record	7-1

Developmental Side Record

Date	Opponent	Score	Notes
<date>	Denver Harlequins	14-20
<date>	Colorado College	31-21
<date>	U Colorado	35-28
<date>	Colorado Mines	25-28
<date>	U Colorado	35-15
<date>	Army	3-19
<date>	U Colorado	14-32
<date>	Denver Barbos	14-28
<date>	Navy	8-5
Season Record	4-5

Roster

Last Name	First Name	Class
Fregly	Terry	2007
Echols	Bradley	2007
Kahn	Jordan	2007
Smith	Thomas	2007
Latham	Stephen	2004
Adams	Cedric	2005
Beers	Thomas	2005
Burley	Mark	2005
Dombrock	Ryan	2005
Gureckis	John	2005
Lockard	John	2005
Riedesel	Joseph	2005
Lemay	Brian	2005
Terrazone	Tyler	2004
Dean	Josh	2004
Sanders	Ryan	2004
Cappell	Eric	2004
Kolzow	James	2004
Steinhiser	Dan	2004
Cordova	John	2007
Anderson	Jake	2005
Bailey	Clayton	2005
Barbour	John	2005
Brennan	Butch	2005
Conyers	Brandon	2005
Deas	Rosie	2006
Feely	John	2005
Green	Sloan	2007
Greenaway	Mike	2005
Griffin	Dan	2007
Harris	Will	2006
Hobson	Mike	2005
Kendall	Mike	2006
Longo	Nick	2005
Marcotte	Tyler	2006
Mazurek	Ken	2005
McPhilamy	Jon	2005
Miller	Sean	2008
Morgans	Nick	2005
Peel	John Blake	2005
Probst	Casey	2007
Rademacher	RJ	2005
Schulte	Christin	2007
Shea	Tom	2005
Tierney	Matt	2007
Uliibarri	Jason	2005
Wetherbee	Mike	2007
Hofman	Griff	2007

Post Season Experience/Records

Nate Terrazone - 2016 Air Force Las Vegas Sevens Camp

Leadership

Staff

Head Coach - David Stephen, RAF

Assistant Coach - Howard Stableford

Assistant Coach - Bob Mckinney '70

Director of rugby operations and logistics - Dan Marine '96

OIC -

CIC -

Captains

C1C Josh Dean (scrum)

C1C Eric Cappel

C1C Ryan Sanders

Media

We were supposed to go to Scotland, everything was set-up, uniforms were already ordered, etc. A week or two out, BG Weida, the Commandant, squashed the overseas travel. So, we regrouped and went down to Scottsdale, AZ! These images are from the first match, right before we headed south. The jerseys for that trip displayed the logo the team had been using since 2001-2002 and was also the first jersey to feature the ZRFC logo (which Tom Beers designed in 2003)

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Memorable Events

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