Rugby Arizona is a member of USA Youth & High School Rugby

To help the children of today develop and strengthen VALUES like respect, integrity, humility, responsibility, self confidence, and enjoyment through the game, culture and family of rugby.

Our values decide our character, our character decides our values.  As the children develop these values they will become leaders / examples to their family, friends, teammates, coaches, referees, teachers and other teams.

The main reason rugby players have a relatively low risk of injury compared to football players is paradoxical – rugby players don’t wear protective equipment. Thus the rugby player doesn’t have the same disregard for the safety of his or her head, neck, and shoulders when tackling or trying to break through a tackle. The other reason is that unlike football, rugby is a game of possession, not yardage.  Consequently rugby players don’t tackle by “driving through the numbers,” as football players are taught to do with their heads when tackling a player. In rugby, players are taught to use their arms to wrap a player’s legs and let the momentum of that player cause him to go to ground. Furthermore, in rugby there is no blocking, and so players who don’t have the ball don’t get hit when they’re not expecting it.