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TRU AGM -2022 Summer

September 11, 2022

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Agenda

  • Roll Call
  • State of the Union
    • New Registration System
    • New Competition System
    • Financials
    • Elections
  • Summit
  • HOF
  • Competitions
  • High Performance
  • Celebrations
  • Brand Update
  • Q&A
  • Next AGM

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State of the Union

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Registration

Texas Rugby Union Registration is OPEN!

Clubs should register themselves and this will allow your players, coaches and administrators to register.

  • Clubs are not “in good standing” until they are properly registered, have a L1 or higher coach on their roster and have at least 23 players registered*. We will continue tracking club compliance on the website.
    • Clubs can register and will have a Compliance banner shown until they are compliant
      • Coaches and Administrators will also have the compliance banner so they know what they need to complete
    • Includes new Rugby Learning Center to help with required trainings for players, coaches, administrators and referees
      • If you are using your mobile device and having issues, please login using your computer

*MD4 and WD3 are the exception to this guideline.

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Registration - snapshot 9/11/22

Usually around 2,300 members so we’re at 12.5% of what we expect for registrations.

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Competition System

Rugby Match Day focuses on match day management tasks pre, during and post the fixture. The easy to use interface allows Rugby organisations to select teams, live score, enter results, statistics, accidents & injuries all in one place.

New Competition System - RugbyXplorer

    • Includes fixtures, results, tables and disciplinary reports
      • Clubs can embed their fixtures, results and tables onto their website using iFrame
    • We will continue to use Who’s the Ref for our partnership with TRRA (referees)

RX Apps

Match Day Apps

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Financials

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Member Survey

Coming soon, will ask about TRU services and what members want provided.

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TRU Board

Elections

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Board Elections

Three Board seats have received nominations and will hold an election. We appreciate that so many members want to help the Union!

Vice President - voted on by all Club Presidents in good standing**

  • *Drew Tomsak
  • John Conmee

Women’s - voted on by the Women’s Clubs

Men’s D1 - voted on by the Men’s D1 Clubs

  • *David Dodge
  • Alex Rees

*Incumbent

**As we are in a new registration cycle, clubs need to be registered with USA Rugby to be considered eligible to vote.

Voting opens at the close of the AGM, voting forms will be sent out to Club Presidents.

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Red River Comp Comm

Elections

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Red River Competitions Committee Elections

Four Competitions Committee seats have received nominations and will hold an election. We appreciate that so many members want to help the Union!

Women’s - voted on by the Women’s Clubs

  • Nominations have been reopened and will close at Noon today

Men’s D1 - voted on by the Men’s D1 Clubs

  • *Jeff Kolberg
  • Michael Norton

Men’s D2 - voted on by the Men’s D2 Clubs (single side clubs)

Men’s D3 - voted on by the Men’s D3 Clubs (single side clubs)

*Incumbent

**As we are in a new registration cycle, clubs need to be registered with USA Rugby to be considered eligible to vote.

Voting opens at the close of the AGM, voting forms will be sent out to Club Presidents.

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Summit

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Summit

We held our seventh annual Regional Development Summit on August 26-28 in Houston, TX.

Over the weekend we held 4 education certification courses for 53 TX ruggers. 7 participants were from out of state for a total of 60 individuals:

  • L1 Coach: 27
  • L2 Coach: 13
  • L1 Referee: 20
  • L1 S&C: 6

The TRU Annual Summit & HOF will now take place the last weekend of August annually.

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HOF

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Hall of Fame Banquet | Pflugerville, TX | Nov 6, 2021

The Class of 2022 was formally enshrined into the Texas Rugby Union Hall of Fame on August 27, 2022. We also featured for the first time the awarding of Distinguished Service Awards as well as the inaugural Alan Sharpley Memorial Award and we celebrated the 2001 Woodlands RFC USA Rugby DII Championship team.

The TRU Annual Summit & HOF will now take place the last weekend of August annually.

2022 Class

Meredith Ottens

Keith Engelbrecht

Gerry Acuna

Distinguished Service Awards

Jim Cornelius - Club

Roger Boos - College

Rick Marshall - Youth

2001 Woodlands RFC - 2001 USA Rugby DII Champions

The Alan Sharpley Memorial Award

Houston SaberCats

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Competitions

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Competitions

RRRC/TRU XVs Finals�April 22-23

Gulf Coast Super Regionals�May 6-7 (True South hosts)

USA Rugby National XVs

May 20-22 OR June 2-4**

The Red River Competitions Committee has shared the proposed schedule and clubs have until Tuesday, September at 7pm to request changes.*

*Women’s D1 schedule and League Guidelines are still undergoing changes and a new version will be shared shortly.

RRRC/TOLA 7s�Early Summer 2023

USA Rugby National 7s Championships

Late Summer 2023

**To be confirmed by USA Rugby Club Competitions Committee.

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High Performance

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Women’s All Star Tournament | Grand Prairie, TX | Dec 3-4, 2022

The 2022 Mary Graham All Stars will take place December 3-4, 2022 and will return to Prairie Park in Grand Prairie, TX.

After five years of this tournament we’re excited to announce that we will have all GU and LAU All Star teams!

2022 Mary Graham All Star Teams

Mary Graham All Stars will now take place the first weekend of December annually.

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Celebrations

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TOLA 7s Champions

RRRC 7s - Dallas RFC

Grand Prairie Mavericks

Dallas RFC

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RRRC 7s Champions

sHARCs

Dallas RFC

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RRRC XVs Champions

WD1 - sHARCs

MD1 - Dallas RFC

WD2 - San Antonio Riveters

MD2 - Austin Blacks

MD3 - Austin Blacks

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Brand

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Union Shirt

Design by Kenzie Sloan Tolar

We are bringing back the TRU Union Member Shirt...it's been over 10 years but we're renewing the tradition. Get your very own shirt today!

Design by Kenzie Sloan Tolar.

PRE-ORDER only! Once we receive 24 pre-orders it will be sent for production. Shirts will be ready 2-3 weeks after production.

Sizing

  • Sizes XS-4XL in men or women's cut
  • Soft shirt material

Go to the TRU Shop to buy more apparel including hats, balls, koozies and more.

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Brand Update

Audience (since last AGM)

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  • 246 accounts reached
  • 120 content interactions

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Q&A

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Next AGM

Spring 2023