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7s practice is going on in line with the summer 7s tournaments.
Anyone interested in becoming a part of this winning tradition, contact us for more information or just
show up at practice.
For PE credit see the AISD OCPE
website.
Looking forward to another winning season for AAHS!
Michael Norton, Head Coach
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Rugby Sevens
AAHS fields one or more Sevens sides based on interest and typically includes players from other clubs under the name of Los Carneros. Practice starts in May with matches and tournaments starting in June. Contact us for more information
Rugby sevens is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players, instead of the usual 15, with shorter matches. The game originated in Melrose, Scotland, and the Melrose Sevens is still played annually. The game is popular at all levels, with amateur and club tournaments generally held in the summer months. Notable international competitions include the IRB Sevens World Series and the Rugby World Cup Sevens. Rugby sevens is also played at some multi-sport events such as the Commonwealth Games. Although it was conceived as an event for rugby union, rugby league has also adopted the sevens format.
Rugby sevens is sanctioned by the IRB, and is played under substantially the same laws and on a field of the same dimensions as the 15-player game. While a normal rugby union match lasts at least 80 minutes, a normal sevens match consists of two halves of seven minutes with a one-minute half-time break. The final of a competition can be played over two halves of ten minutes each, with a half-time break of two minutes. (In the IRB Sevens World Series, only the Cup final, which determines the overall winner of an event, is played with 10-minute halves; all finals for lower-level trophies are played with 7-minute halves.) This allows rugby tournaments to be completed in a day or a weekend. However, sevens scores are generally comparable to union scores; scoring occurs with much greater regularity in sevens, since the defenders are more spaced out. Scrums are composed of just three players from each team. Because of the speedy nature of the game, good sevens players are often backs or loose forwards in fifteens rugby.
In it's first year AAHS took 4th place overall (out of ~50) in the TOLA (Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas) series Men's Division.
AAHS chose to play the Men's sides rather than the high school sides to compete at a higher level and allow siblings and a Dad or two to get on the pitch.
The TOLA Series is a Rugby Sevens competition whose goal is to offer a regionalized competition consisting of several 7s tournaments that lead to the crowning of a champion in the Central South U.S
Players, Alumni (Old Boys) and Coaches before and after winning the "Down by the River" 7s Tournament - Men's Club Division, Corpus Christi, TX
28 - 6 Corpus Reds, 28 - 7 San Antonio Men's club, 27 - 7 Corpus Blues, 28 - 0 San Antonio Men's club
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