Rugby Takes Off in US

New Zealander Craig Knight is the recruiting co-chairman of the University of North Carolina (UNC) Rugby Club and tells the University’s student newspaper that he initially expected American rugby to be a little primitive, but was immediately surprised at the skill he encountered. “As much as everyone says that America is not developed as a rugby culture, the Americans have definitely picked up the game a lot more than I thought when I first came here,” Knight said. With the end of his college career in sight, Knight said he is looking to lead the UNC rugby team toward a championship in the new Atlantic Coast Rugby League. Next year he is going to either enrol as a graduate student in the UNC School of Education or go into editing or screen writing. “I’d also love to continue to play rugby. Once you’ve been amongst it for so long, it’s hard to withdraw from that culture.”