Date 31 May–2 June 2013 Matches played 46 | Teams 20 | |
Tournament format(s) Round-robin and Knockout Top point scorer(s) Joe Cowley (Life )
(81 points) Top try scorer(s) Joe Cowley (Life)
(9 tries) | ||
The 2013 USA Sevens Collegiate Rugby Championship was a rugby sevens tournament. The tournament was held on May 31 - June 2 at PPL Park in Chester, Pennsylvania. It was the fourth annual Collegiate Rugby Championship and the third consecutive year that the tournament was held at PPL Park. For 2013, USA Sevens LLC expanded the tournament from 16 to 20 teams in order to include additional local Philadelphia-area teams, inviting Temple, Kutztown, Penn, and Saint Joseph's. Another local team, Villanova, was later chosen as a replacement for Army. Villanova was outscored 184-0 over four games.
Contents
In the CRC's first three years, 16 teams were evenly divided into Championship and Challenger tournaments after the pool stage. This year was the first one in which the CRC utilized Cup, Plate, Bowl, and Shield tournaments. The teams that qualified for the Cup were the five pool winners and the top three second-place teams. All 20 teams participated in the knockout stage.
California defeated Life 19-14 in the Cup finals for their first CRC championship.
Pool stage
The 8 teams highlighted in green reached the quarterfinals. Delaware and Notre Dame finished second in their pools, but did not reach the quarterfinals due to their points differentials.
Players
The following 14 players were selected by Rugby Mag to the All-CRC team:
- Seamus Kelly (Cal) - MVP
- Danny Barrett (Cal)
- Cam Dolan (Life)
- Madison Hughes (Dartmouth)
- Brett Thompson (Arizona)
- Jake Anderson (Cal)
- Joe Cowley (Life)
- Colton Cariaga (Life)
- Seb Sharpe (UCLA)
- Grant Penney (UCLA)
- Glenn Thommes (Delaware)
- Jack McAuliffe (Navy)
- Tim Acker (Kutztown)
- Dimitri Efthimiou (Northeastern)