Louisiana Lagniappe Women’s Rugby hosted the Austin Valkyries on March 11, 2017 for their Spring season home opener in Baton Rouge, LA. Final score: Louisiana Lagniappe 25 Austin Valkyries 10 You can find these teams on social media: Louisiana Lagniappe – https://www.facebook.com/louisianalagniapperugby/ Austin Valkyries – https://www.facebook.com/austinvalkyries/
While much of the rugby community was celebrating after a tremendous display of the sport in the Olympics, tides were changing for a community of people. On August 12, 2016, the region of south Louisiana was hit by flooding of proportions that had never been experienced before. Over the course of one weekend, 6.3 trillion gallons of water hit […]
Brittany Vegso was only supposed to be in New Orleans for a six month period but after playing with the New Orleans women’s rugby program, she decided to stick around and see what the Big Easy had to offer. Hailing from Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, Vegso got her start in rugby while attending Penn State University. […]
This game was on November 16, 2013, held at CityPark, New Orleans, LA. An undefeated Nashville Women’s team came down to New Orleans to play the mixed city team (Baton Rouge/New Orleans) known as the Louisiana Lagniappe. The two teams played tough, but in the end Louisiana Lagniappe put up a dominating effort winning the […]
Saturday, November 16, 2013 USA Eagles 25, Georgia 23 Louisiana Lagniappe 19, Nashville Women 0 Tulane 26, Mississippi Gulf Coast 36 New Orleans 60, Atlanta Old White 0
This is a relatively light weekend for rugby. The USA gets to move on from their intense play, but losing effort, against the All-Black Maori’s to take on Georgia. Locally, Louisiana Lagniappe, the mixed women’s teams from New Orleans and Baton Rouge, will be taking on Nashville Rugby. The Women coming off their win against […]
