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About The Florida State University Men’s Rugby Football Club

MISSION STATEMENT

“RESPECT, SERVICE & ELITE PERFORMANCE”

The Florida State University Rugby Football Club seeks to foster an environment in which our student athletes can develop into men of character through hard work and community service. In all of our activities we will represent Florida State University, the City of Tallahassee and the State of Florida honourably. 

Respecting the game, our opponents and officials at all times is our top priority. FSU rugby players are driven to become elite performers, tirelessly seeking to take their game to the next level:  representing the State of Florida, the South Region and the USA Rugby Eagles.

 

The Florida State University Men’s Rugby Football Club is an entirely student-run organization founded in 1972.  We have gone from a devoted men’s club to a highly competitive all college team.  In recent years the FSU RFC has boosted its organization as a club and has taken on the goal of dominating the South and winning the Division 2 National Championships.  In 2005 the FSU RFC defeated Arkansas State for the USA Rugby South Championship and went on to represent FSU as one of the elite eight in the nation.  Nevertheless, throughout all the years and all the players the same PRIDE in Seminole Rugby has remained the same.

 

Rugby is a unique sport that combines all of the basic tenants of athleticism into one game.  It requires speed, strength, endurance, agility, fearlessness, and mental toughness to play the game well.  It is also unique in the social aspects that the game provides.  If you decide to play rugby you will find yourself in a social world that is unique to rugby players world-wide. 

Experience is not necessary to play.  You can be a small guy, that is 5 feet tall and 100 pounds heavy or a big guy that is 6’5” and 250 pounds there is a spot for everyone on the field.  Small guys usually use their agility and speed to score while big guys usually use their mass and superiority of the rules of physics to overrun anyone who finds themselves in their way. 

Our club travels all over the state of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, the South in general and we have even traveled to California to