Women's XV
February 5, 2010 Uncategorized
HISTORY
HARC’s Womens side was formed on July 17, 1998 by the merging the Houston Herricanes with the newly merged HARC men’s team. These clubs joined to leverage promote rugby in the Houston area.
HOUSTON HERRICANES WRFC
Contributed by DJ Criste and Angela Bonney.
In 1989, a group of women decided to form another rugby team in Houston. These ladies included former Houston Hearts, former Texas A&M players and women who had never had a chance to play rugby before. After a few games in 1989, they knew they needed a team name other than “that group from Houston”, so they chose the HERRICANES. Many people saw the Houston Herricanes play in green jerseys and assume the team color was green. That is only half true. The Houston Herricane team colors were pink and green. The selection of this combination comes from a sale at a rugby warehouse some years ago. It is believed an equipment distributor had several sets of jerseys made in Carribean colors for the summer rugby season. After the big push, the distributor was left with pink and green jerseys that he could not sell at full price. He reduced the price to fire sale costs. Being a newly formed team, the Herricanes leaped at the chance to get low cost, high quality jerseys, and had also selected the team colors. The Herricanes have had success on the field as the TRU Champions and have represented the TRU at the Western Championships many times. The Herricanes made their way to the National Championship in 1995 in the Plate Division. Many Herricanes players and alumni are West Select Side players and a few have been selected to the US Eagle Player Pools.
