Date June 4–5, 2011 Matches played 39 | Teams 16 | |
Top try scorer(s) Peter Tiberio (Arizona)(8 tries) | ||
The 2011 Collegiate Rugby Championship was a rugby union sevens tournament. The competition was held from 4–5 June at PPL Park in Chester, Pennsylvania. The men's tournament featured sixteen teams, whereas the women's tournament featured eight teams.
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In the men's championship, Dartmouth defeated Army 32-10. In the women's championship, Army defeated Penn State 14-5.
Overview
The tournament consisted of four round-robin pools of four teams. All sixteen teams progressed to the knockout stage. The top two teams from each group progressed to the quarter-finals in the championship competition. The bottom two teams from each group progressed to the quarter-finals in the challenger competition. Over 10,000 fans turned out to watch Day 1 of the tournament.
Group B teams had the best knockout record of the four pools, going 6-4 on day two.
Group C was the only pool where all four teams registered at least one win in knockout competition on day two.
Group D teams went 0-4 in the knockout phase on day two.
Overall results
The following are the overall win/loss results and points differentials for the 8 quarterfinalists:
- Dartmouth 6-0, +85
- Army 5-1, +23
- Utah 4-2, +24
- Central Washington 3-3, +7
- Arizona 3-1, +80
- Cal 3-1, +65
- Texas 2-2, 0
- Penn State 2-2, -20
Format
The tournament consisted of two round-robin pools of four teams. All eight teams progressed to the knockout stage. The knockout stage is single elimination with no bronze medal match.
Players
After the conclusion of the tournament, Rugby Mag selected the following 14 players on the All-Tournament team:
- Blaine Scully - California
- Peter Tiberio - Arizona
- Nate Ebner - Ohio State
- Tim Stanfill - Central Washington University
- Will Holder - Army
- Ben Leatigaga - Army
- Dave Geib - Army
- Nate Brakeley - Dartmouth
- Chris Downer - Dartmouth
- Nick Downer - Dartmouth
- Tanner Scott - Dartmouth
- Seamus Siefring - Navy
- Don Pati - Utah
- Tonata Lauti - Utah
These players were chosen based on the impact they had made during the tournament and also based on their potential to succeed at higher levels of rugby. Of this group of players, Peter Tiberio and Blaine Scully have already played for the USA Sevens national team. Al Caravelli, head coach of the USA Sevens national team, attended the tournament, and confirmed in TV interviews during the tournament that he was scouting several of these 14 players for the national team.